Resilient ultrafine fiber sponges with thermal bridge structures for high-temperature traffic noise reduction

With the expansion of the transportation business, noise pollution has seriously affected human health and quality of life. Vehicles not only generate noise but also release a large amount of heat, existing traffic noise reduction materials have no thermal conductivity and poor low-frequency noise reduction. Herein, thermal bridge structured elastic ultrafine fiber sponges (TBFSs) were constructed in one step through simultaneous high-humidity assisted electrospinning and electrospraying. The thermal bridge structures endow fiber sponges with good thermal conductivity (close to 0.1 W m^-1 K^-1), increased by 350 % compared with common fiber sponges. More importantly, due to the complex pore channel and the vibration effect of the thermal bridge structures, the TBFSs achieve a high noise reduction coefficient of 0.58, which can reduce the high-temperature white noise by 16.5 dB at 100 °C. Besides, the synergistic effect of elastic polyurethane and heat crosslinking endows TBFSs with good mechanical properties, demonstrating negligible plastic deformation following 100 cycles of compressive loading. The successful development of thermal bridge structures fiber sponges provides a new solution for high-temperature safety noise reduction.