Architectured ceramics to combine strength, toughness, and complex shapes

该项目旨在开发既坚固又坚韧的陶瓷，并在不影响其机械性能的情况下将其形成复杂的形状——这是科学和工程领域的主要挑战。受到赋予天然硬材料这些优势的内部结构的启发，它将通过开发一种快速、可扩展和通用的基于光的3D-4D打印技术，结合离散元素建模，生产具有合理设计、高度控制的致密结构的新型陶瓷。结果将是增韧陶瓷和加工-建筑-性能关系的新知识，对生物材料，国防，运输，高温和航空航天应用有重大好处。

This project aims to develop ceramics that are simultaneously strong and tough, and to form them into complex shapes without compromising their mechanical properties – major challenges in science and engineering. Inspired by the internal architectures that confer these advantages on natural hard materials, it will produce novel ceramics with rationally-designed, highly-controlled dense architectures by developing a fast, scalable and versatile light-based 3D–4D printing technique combined with discrete element modelling. Outcomes will be toughened ceramics and new knowledge on processing-architecture-performance relationships, with significant benefits for biomaterials, defence, transport, high-temperature and aerospace applications.