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Bubble Templated Flexible Ceramic Nanofiber Aerogels with Cascaded Resonant Cavities for High-Temperature Noise
Dingding Zong1, Wenya Bai2, Meng Geng2
1State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China.
Abstract:
Aviation noise pollution has become a significant public health problem, especially with the endless improvement of flight speed and loading capacity. Existing aviation noise absorbers have fatal defects of large weight, weak high-temperature stability, and difficulty to achieve both good low-frequency (<1000 Hz) and high-frequency (up to 6000 Hz) noise absorption simultaneously. Herein, we report a robust strategy to create flexible ceramic nanofiber aerogels with cascaded resonant cavities by the air bubbles-assisted freeze-casting technology. The stable hinged resonance cavity structures coassembled by flexible ceramic nanofibers, soft montmorillonite nanosheets, and silica sol glue endow the aerogels with temperature-invariant compressibility (from -196 to 1100 °C) and bendability. Moreover, the comprehensive advantages of cascaded resonance cavities and interconnected fibrous networks enable flexible ceramic nanofiber aerogels to have temperature-invariant full-frequency noise absorption performance (noise reduction coefficient up to 0.66 in 63-6300 Hz). The synthesis of this flexible ceramic nanofiber aerogel provides a versatile platform for the design of high-efficiency noise-absorbing material for various fields.
