Shanyu Han, Xiaoyi Chen, Fuming Chen, Zhichao Lou, Xueyong Ren, Hanzhou Ye, Ge Wang
The development of modern construction and transportation industries demands increasingly high requirements for thin, lightweight, high-strength, and highly tough composite materials, such as metal carbides and concrete. Bamboo is a green, low-carbon, fast-growing, renewable, and biodegradable material with high strength and toughness. However, the density of its inner layer is low due to the functional gradient (the volume fraction of vascular bundles decreases from the outer layer to the inner layer), resulting in low performance, high compressibility, and significant amounts of bamboo waste...
April 13, 2024: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules