Co‐Continuous Composite Materials for Stiffness, Strength, and Energy Dissipation

Two-component ordered structures in which both phases are solid and continuous (co-continuous solid structures) are un usual in nature and in commercial applications. Natural and synthetic co-continuous structures, comprised of hard and soft materials can provide outstanding combinations of properties including stiffness, strength, impact resistance, toughness, and energy dissipation. [ 1 , 2 ] The geometric and topological arrangement of the constituents provides avenues to engineer the macroscale properties. Various chemical processing routes and technologies now enable the precise production of ordered co-continuous microstructured materials over a wide range of length scales. For example, block copolymer chemistry can be tailored to provide periodic bi-continuous structures with feature size of sub-micrometer [ 3 ] while immiscible polymer blends can yield random bi-continuous structures. [ 4 ] Solid cocontinuous microstructures in other material systems have also been of recent interest, including metal-ceramic composites [ 5 ]

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