Highly Anisotropic Conductors

• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201703331
• Publication Date: 2017-09-18T14:44:00Z
• Authors: Jiayu Wan; Jianwei Song; Zhi Yang; Dylan Kirsch; Chao Jia; Rui Xu; Jiaqi Dai; Mingwei Zhu; Lisha Xu; Chaoji Chen; Yanbin Wang; Yilin Wang; Emily Hitz; Steven D. Lacey; Yongfeng Li; Bao Yang; Liangbing Hu
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; 0104 chemical sciences

Composite materials with ordered microstructures often lead to enhanced functionalities that a single material can hardly achieve. Many biomaterials unusual be found in nature; among them, many possess anisotropic and even directional physical chemical properties. With inspiration from nature, artificial composite rationally designed achieve this behavior desired Here, metallic wood metal continuously filling the vessels is developed, which demonstrates excellent electrical, thermal, mechanical The well-aligned rods are confined separated by vessels, deliver electron transport parallel alignment direction. Thus, novel boasts an extraordinary electrical conductivity (σ|| /σ⊥ ) order of 1011 , thermal (κ|| /κ⊥ 18. These values exceed highest reported existing materials. functionality enables it used for management applications, such as insulation dissipation. highly serves example further design; other different biotemplates/hosts fillers higher ratios, allowing them implemented variety applications.