TY - JOUR
T1 - An elegant coupling
T2 - Freeze-casting and versatile polymer composites
AU - Yang, Jie
AU - Yang, Wei
AU - Chen, Wei
AU - Tao, Xiaoming
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the project 2018YFC2000900 supported by National Key R&D Program of China, the project 21975214 supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the project BE1H supported by Start-up Fund of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - The innovations of materials science and modern technologies are boosting the prosperity of polymer composites in various emerging multi-disciplinary fields. Cooperating with the conventional and emerging processing methods, the freeze-casting (ice-templating) technique is attracting interest in the assembling of three-dimensional structural materials (3D-SMs) accompanying the growth of ice crystals. These unique 3D-SMs with isotropic, cellular, lamellar and radially aligned structures have enabled to fabricate multifunctional polymer composites as diverse as mechanically reinforced materials, electrically conductive materials, thermally conductive materials, thermally insulating materials, adsorbents, energy-related materials, biomaterials, and many more. Herein, the working principles and methodologies of ice-templating strategy and its recent advances in shaping and structuring of 3D-SMs and production of corresponding multifunctional polymer composites are summarized. Finally, directions and prospects lying ahead are highlighted, involving the structure designs, processing routes and potential applications. Freeze-casting has manifested responsibilities for producing advanced functional composites. What is it being prepared to do?
AB - The innovations of materials science and modern technologies are boosting the prosperity of polymer composites in various emerging multi-disciplinary fields. Cooperating with the conventional and emerging processing methods, the freeze-casting (ice-templating) technique is attracting interest in the assembling of three-dimensional structural materials (3D-SMs) accompanying the growth of ice crystals. These unique 3D-SMs with isotropic, cellular, lamellar and radially aligned structures have enabled to fabricate multifunctional polymer composites as diverse as mechanically reinforced materials, electrically conductive materials, thermally conductive materials, thermally insulating materials, adsorbents, energy-related materials, biomaterials, and many more. Herein, the working principles and methodologies of ice-templating strategy and its recent advances in shaping and structuring of 3D-SMs and production of corresponding multifunctional polymer composites are summarized. Finally, directions and prospects lying ahead are highlighted, involving the structure designs, processing routes and potential applications. Freeze-casting has manifested responsibilities for producing advanced functional composites. What is it being prepared to do?
KW - Freeze-casting
KW - Ice-templating principles
KW - Multifunctional polymer composites
KW - Three-dimensional structural materials
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U2 - 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2020.101289
DO - 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2020.101289
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85089735712
SN - 0079-6700
VL - 109
JO - Progress in Polymer Science
JF - Progress in Polymer Science
M1 - 101289
ER -