Profiting from nature: macroporous copper with superior mechanical properties.
Macroporous copper with a complex hyperbolic morphology and superior mechanical properties was produced by replicating the remarkable form of a sea urchin skeletal plate using templated electrochemical deposition.
Lai
Min
M
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Kulak
Alex N
AN
Law
Daniel
D
Zhang
Zhibing
Z
Meldrum
Fiona C
FC
Riley
D Jason
DJ
D000818:Animals; D019245:Compressive Strength; D003300:Copper / Q000737:chemistry*; D004563:Electrochemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D016062:Porosity; D012617:Sea Urchins / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013499:Surface Properties
D011108:Polymers; D003300:Copper