Recently, a research team uncovered the propagation and toughening mechanism of tortuous crack front in bioinspired anisotropic heterogeneities, and developed an optimization design for toughness ...

This research reveals the physical mechanism behind the toughening effect of crack front in heterogeneous material, offering innovative ideas for future design of bioinspired heterogeneous materials.

Recently, a team led by Xiaomeng Fan from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China reported a low-modulus brittle interface design method for reinforcing and toughening multiphase ceramics.