Citation: Liu Yujing, He Kai, Yuan Wentao, Jin Xinyi, Liang Tao, Wang Yong, L. Xin Huolin, Chen Hongzheng, Gao Chao, Li Hanying. Visualizing the toughening origins of gel-grown calcite single-crystal composites[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2018, 29(11): 1666-1670. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2018.05.044 shu

Visualizing the toughening origins of gel-grown calcite single-crystal composites

Liu Yujing ^a,b,c ,
He Kai ^b,1 ,
Yuan Wentao ^c,d ,
Jin Xinyi ^a,c ,
Liang Tao ^a,c ,
Wang Yong ^c,d ,
L. Xin Huolin ^b ,
Chen Hongzheng ^a,c ,
Gao Chao ^a,c ,
Li Hanying ^a,c,*,,

a.
MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
b.
Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, United States
c.
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
d.
Center of Electron Microscopy, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Corresponding author: Li Hanying, hanying_li@zju.edu.cn

Received Date: 28 April 2018
Revised Date: 19 May 2018
Accepted Date: 24 May 2018
Available Online: 1 December 2018

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Biogenic single crystals have been widely demonstrated to incorporate macromolecules to achieve extra damage tolerance, spurring investigations on their synthetic analogs with enhanced mechanical properties as well as the enhancement mechanism(s) behind. And the investigations rely on both rational design of the single-crystal composites and, equally importantly, nanoscale and in-situ characterization strategy. Here, composite structures are constructed inside the calcite single-crystal host by incorporating guest materials of agarose fibers, multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), and graphene oxide (GO), through crystallization in agarose gel media. Further, transmission electron microscopy-scanning probe microscopy (TEM-SPM) method, coupling compression measurements with nanoscale imaging, shows that the obtained single-crystal composites exhibit improved toughness, compared to the solution-grown pure single crystals. Particularly, the rupture time increases by 1.25 times after the gel-networks and MWCNTs are incorporated. More importantly, the in-situ observation of the crystal deformation suggests that the guest incorporation toughens the single-crystal host by the shielding effect of nanofiber on crack-bridging at nanoscale. As such, this work may have implications for understanding the damage tolerance of biominerals as well as towards the development of new mechanically reinforced single-crystal composite materials.
- Biomineralization,
- Composite single-crystal,
- Gel-grown,
- Calcite,
- Carbon nanotube,
- Graphene oxide,
- Toughening
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