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Publisher DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-019-39934-4 | Title: | Hierarchical supercrystalline nanocomposites through the self-assembly of organically-modified ceramic nanoparticles | Language: | English | Authors: | Domènech Garcia, Berta Kampferbeck, Michael Larsson, Emanuel Krekeler, Tobias Bor, Büsra Giuntini, Diletta Blankenburg, Malte Ritter, Martin ![]() Müller, Martin Vossmeyer, Tobias Weller, Horst Schneider, Gerold A. |
Issue Date: | 5-Mar-2019 | Source: | Scientific reports 1 (9): 3435 (2019) | Journal or Series Name: | Scientific reports | Abstract (english): | Biomaterials often display outstanding combinations of mechanical properties thanks to their hierarchical structuring, which occurs through a dynamically and biologically controlled growth and self-assembly of their main constituents, typically mineral and protein. However, it is still challenging to obtain this ordered multiscale structural organization in synthetic 3D-nanocomposite materials. Herein, we report a new bottom-up approach for the synthesis of macroscale hierarchical nanocomposite materials in a single step. By controlling the content of organic phase during the self-assembly of monodisperse organically-modified nanoparticles (iron oxide with oleyl phosphate), either purely supercrystalline or hierarchically structured supercrystalline nanocomposite materials are obtained. Beyond a critical concentration of organic phase, a hierarchical material is consistently formed. In such a hierarchical material, individual organically-modified ceramic nanoparticles (Level 0) self-assemble into supercrystals in face-centered cubic superlattices (Level 1), which in turn form granules of up to hundreds of micrometers (Level 2). These micrometric granules are the constituents of the final mm-sized material. This approach demonstrates that the local concentration of organic phase and nano-building blocks during self-assembly controls the final material's microstructure, and thus enables the fine-tuning of inorganic-organic nanocomposites' mechanical behavior, paving the way towards the design of novel high-performance structural materials. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11420/2247 | DOI: | 10.15480/882.2161 | ISSN: | 2045-2322 | Institute: | Keramische Hochleistungswerkstoffe M-9 Betriebseinheit Elektronenmikroskopie M-26 |
Document Type: | Article | Funded by: | The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the SFB 986-M3, projects A1, A6, Z2, and Z3. We thank Dr. F. Beckmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany) for scanning the sample with the technique SRµCT and for reconstructing the slices, and Dr. I. Greving (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany) for her inputs on SRµCT. Dr. F. Brun (National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Trieste, Italy) is acknowledged for the discussion regarding quantitative analysis using Pore3d. | Project: | SFB 986, Teilproject A6 - Herstellung und Charakterisierung hierarchischer, multi-funktionaler Keramik/Metall-Polymer Materialsysteme SFB 986: Zentralprojekt Z3 - Elektronenmikroskopie an multiskaligen Materialsystemen |
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