A cohesive granular material with tunable elasticity
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 2 - 701906
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/srep35650
- Title of journal
- Scientific Reports
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- First page
- 35650
- Volume
- 6
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- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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A - Imaging, Materials and Engineering Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- We manufacture and characterise a new class of artificial porous material, subsequently patented (Patent WO2018014935A1). Follow-up work (doi:10.1039/C6SM02600A) established the material’s high/tuneable fracture toughness, adding to its value for filters and membranes. Others confirm that our mechanisms also strengthen nanoparticle films (doi: 10.1021/acsami.8b15027) and light-weight glass-based composites (doi:10.3390/ma12040619) and can help understand the mud-nest architecture of birds (doi.org:10.1073/pnas.2018509118). The work led to invited talks (Fracmeet 2017 (Chennai) and 2019 (SRM University); CRM Barcelona (http://fail.crm.cat/schedule), 2020) and collaboration with the University of Osaka (Takahiro Hatano, hatano@ess.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp) leading to a generic numerical model of this class of material (doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.102.052903).
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- Non-English
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