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Negative Additive Manufacturing of Complex Shaped Boron Carbides

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Twisted-layer boron nitride ceramic with high deformability and strength.

Yingju Wu^1,2, Yang Zhang^1,3, Xiaoyu Wang¹

¹Center for High Pressure Science (CHiPS), State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China.

|February 21, 2024

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Researchers developed a new twisted-layer boron nitride bulk ceramic. This material exhibits exceptional room-temperature deformability and strength, surpassing traditional ceramics.

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics
Nanotechnology

Background:

Moiré superlattices in van der Waals materials are key for studying correlated physics.
Mechanical properties of twisted-layer van der Waals materials are under-explored due to challenges in creating bulk forms.
Lack of 3D bulk materials hinders research into twisted-layer van der Waals material mechanics.

Purpose of the Study:

To synthesize a polycrystalline boron nitride bulk ceramic with enhanced mechanical properties.
To investigate the structure-property relationship of twisted-layer boron nitride ceramics.
To enable the fabrication of highly deformable bulk ceramics.

Main Methods:

Synthesis of bulk ceramic from onion-like boron nitride nanoprecursors.
Utilized conventional spark plasma sintering and hot-pressing sintering techniques.
Characterized the microstructure of interlocked laminated nanoplates with varying twist angles.

Main Results:

Achieved a bulk ceramic with high room-temperature deformability and strength.
Demonstrated compressive strain up to 14%, an order of magnitude higher than traditional ceramics.
Exhibited compressive strength approximately six times greater than ordinary hexagonal boron nitride layered ceramics.

Conclusions:

Exceptional mechanical properties stem from intrinsic deformability of twisted nanoplates and 3D interlocking architecture.
The developed twisted-layer boron nitride bulk ceramic offers a pathway to novel deformable ceramic materials.
This advancement opens possibilities for advanced ceramic applications requiring high deformability and strength.