Highly porous layers of silica nanospheres sintered by drying: scaling up of the elastic properties of the beads to the macroscopic mechanical properties

• DOI: 10.1039/c7sm02443f
• Publication Date: 2018-04-13T14:03:51Z
• Authors: Arnaud Lesaine; Daniel Bonamy; Georges Gauthier; Cindy L. Rountree; Véronique Lazarus
• Keywords: Homogenization

Homogenization schemes based on continuum mechanics provide the elastic properties of dried colloidal layers (using no fitting parameter), yet inter-grain adhesion becomes relevant at higher porosities.