Strength enhancement in ice-templated lithium titanate Li4Ti5O12 materials using sucrose

Ice-templating technique enables the synthesis of novel ceramic materials with directional, anisotropic pores, and the templated structure is highly tunable. Another factor that also drives interest in ice-templated ceramics is that for a comparable level of porosity, the uniaxial compressive strength of these materials can be significantly greater in comparison to that of the conventional open-cell foams. However, the strength advantage is...