Bioinspired ultrasound freeze casting: engineered porous scaffolds through freeze casting and ultrasound directed self-assembly

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Title Bioinspired ultrasound freeze casting: engineered porous scaffolds through freeze casting and ultrasound directed self-assembly
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Engineering
Department Mechanical Engineering
Author Ogden, Taylor Andrew
Date 2019
Description Lightweight porous engineered materials are advantageous in a broad range of research fields because they combine desirable mechanical properties, such as a high strength-to-weight ratio, with the ability to leverage their porous structure. Existing techniques for fabricating porous material structures are limited by material choice, require multiple steps, and/or additional postprocessing to create regions of varying material properties within the material structure, and thus are not easily scalable. In contrast, I implement and characterize a fabrication process for macroscale porous engineered material samples with a user-specified microstructure, by combining freeze casting, which allows fabrication of macroscale porous materials samples, with ultrasound directed self-assembly, which allows controlling the microstructure of the macroscale porous materials. I refer to this process as "Ultrasound Freeze Casting (UFC)," and employ it to fabricate bioinspired materials that mimic the concentric rings of natural materials such as osteons and Liesegang rings. Specifically, I employ the UFC process to create material samples with three, four, and five concentric rings of alternating dense and porous TiO2 material. I find statistically significant differences of both the porosity and Vickers hardness when comparing the porous and dense regions of the material samples fabricated with the UFC process. These results will provide a new pathway to fabricate macroscale porous engineered materials with user-specified microstructure.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Lightweight porous engineered materials; ultrasound freeze casting; bioinspired; porous structure
Dissertation Name Master of Science
Language eng
Rights Management (c) Taylor Andrew Ogden
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
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Setname ir_etd
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cw0h77