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The soft phase was incorporated in the form of continuous interlayers, where the numbers of layers ranged from 64 to 2048. A blend with the same material composition (based on wt% of the used materials) and the pure matrix material were investigated for comparison. A plateau in impact strength was reached by layered architectures, where the matrix layer thickness was as small or smaller than the largest talcum particles. The most promising layered architecture, namely, 512 layers, was subsequently investigated more thoroughly using instrumented Charpy experiments and tensile testing. In these tests, normalised parameters for stiffness and strength were obtained in addition to the impact strength. The multilayered material showed remarkable impact strength, fracture energy and damage tolerance. However, stiffness and strength were reduced due to the addition of the soft phase. 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