Ice-templated Ceramics and Composites: Understanding Structure-Property Relationships in the Quasistatic and Dynamic Regimes of Compressive Loading

Ice-templating is an emerging and versatile technique that can be employed to synthesize advanced macroporous ceramics and multilayered ceramic-polymer composites for various engineering endeavors. In ice-templating of ceramics, typically an aqueous ceramic suspension is unidirectionally frozen that results in the formation of alternate layers of ice and ceramic particles, and freeze drying of the frozen solid yields a macroporous ceramic...