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Transparent Impact-Resistant Composite Films with Bioinspired Hierarchical Structure

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    Transparent Impact-Resistant Composite Films with Bioinspired Hierarchical Structure
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    • Ran Chen
      Ran Chen
      College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, China
      John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 11 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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      Junfeng Liu
      College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, China
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      Chenjing Yang
      College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, China
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      David A. Weitz
      John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 11 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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      Haonan He
      Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Renmin Road 5625, Changchun 130022, China
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      Dewen Li
      College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, China
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      Dong Chen
      College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, China
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      Kai Liu
      Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Renmin Road 5625, Changchun 130022, China
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      Hao Bai
      College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, China
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    Inspired by the helicoidally organized microstructure of stomatopods’ smasher dactyl club, a type of impact-resistant composite film reinforced with periodic helicoidal nanofibers is designed and fabricated, which reproduces the structural complexity of the natural material. To periodically align nanofibers in a helicoidal structure, an electrospinning system is developed to better control the alignment of electrospun nanofibers. When the nanofiber scaffold is embedded in an epoxy matrix, the presence of a hierarchical structure allows the composite films to achieve properties well beyond their constituents. The composite film exhibits excellent optical transparency and mechanical properties, such as enhanced tensile strength, ductility, and defect tolerance. With elegant design mimicking nature’s hierarchical structure at multilength scales, the composite films could effectively release the impact energy and greatly increase the impact resistance, suggesting that the transparent composite films are promising protective layers suitable for various applications.

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    • Calculation of the 2D order parameter of electrospun nanofibers; transparency of an epoxy film without nanofibers and a composite film with helicoidally aligned nanofibers; SEM image of electrospun nanofibers aligned along one direction, two orthogonal directions and four rotating directions; finite-element simulations of the composite films; stress–strain curves of composite films reinforced with polyurethane nanofibers; microscope images of fractures on neat epoxy films, showing a smooth fracture line (PDF)

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