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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Fundamental toughening landscape in soft-hard composites: Insights from a minimal framework.

Fucheng Tian, Katsuhiko Sato, Yong Zheng, Feixue Lu, Jian Ping Gong

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Fucheng TianFaculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan.
Katsuhiko SatoProgram of Mathematics and Informatics, Science, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-8555, Japan.
Yong ZhengState Key Lab for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
Feixue LuInstitute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan.
Jian Ping GongFaculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-2228-2750

Funding

MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) No. 22H04968 No. 22K21342MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) No. 23KF0002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soft-hard composite strategy is a highly general yet powerful approach to overcome the inherent trade-off between strength and toughness in material design. However, the underlying toughening mechanisms, veiled by nonlinearities and complex network interactions, remains unclear. Here, we employ a three-dimensional soft-hard composite (SH-

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brittle-to-ductile transitioninternal fracturelinear elasticitysoft-hard compositetoughing

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PMID40608676
PMCPMC12260589

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