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  • Materials Science
  • Biomimetics
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Nature excels at creating strong, lightweight, and tough materials like nacre, bone, and wood, often featuring lamellar or layered architectures.
  • These natural materials exhibit superior properties compared to their constituent components, inspiring bioinspired material design.
  • Nacre's 'brick and mortar' structure is a prime example of a layered material with exceptional physical properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent advances in freeze casting for fabricating lamellar scaffolds.
  • To explore the use of diverse building blocks (nanoparticles, polymer chains, nanofibers, nanosheets) in freeze casting.
  • To discuss the infiltration of these scaffolds with various matrices (polymer, ceramic, metal) for enhanced properties.

Main Methods:

  • Freeze casting (ice-templating) is highlighted as a key technique for producing bioinspired bulk materials.
  • Layer-by-layer deposition, self-assembly, and electrophoretic deposition are mentioned as related processing techniques.
  • The review focuses on assembling different dimensional building blocks into lamellar scaffolds.

Main Results:

  • Freeze casting enables the fabrication of lamellar scaffolds with controlled architectures.
  • Infiltration of these scaffolds with secondary phases results in bioinspired structural materials with excellent mechanical properties.
  • The technique allows for the creation of nacre-inspired materials with superior performance.

Conclusions:

  • Freeze casting is a promising technique for creating high-performance, nacre-inspired structural materials.
  • Further research is needed to overcome challenges in scaling up freeze-cast materials for practical applications.
  • The bioinspired approach using freeze casting offers a pathway to advanced materials with tunable properties.