Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 32, Issue 33, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202001222
Keywords
bioinspired materials; cellular plastics; high-energy dissipation; multifunctional materials; negative Poisson's ratios
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51722306, 51603182, 21674098]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFC1103900]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2018XZZX002-15]
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering [SKL-ChE-20T06]
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Cellular plastics have been widely used in transportation, aerospace, and personal safety applications owing to their excellent mechanical, thermal, and acoustic properties. It is highly desirable to impart them with a complex porous structure and composition distribution to obtain specific functionality for various engineering applications, which is challenging with conventional foaming technologies. Herein, it is demonstrated that this can be achieved through the controlled freezing process of a monomer/water emulsion, followed by cryopolymerization and room temperature thawing. As ice is used as a template, this method is environmentally friendly and capable of producing cellular plastics with various microstructures by harnessing the numerous morphologies of ice crystals. In particular, a cellular plastic with a radially aligned structure shows a negative Poisson's ratio under compression. The rigid plastic shows a much higher energy dissipation capability compared to other materials with similar negative Poisson's ratios. Additionally, the simplicity and scalability of this approach provides new possibilities for fabricating high-performance cellular plastics with well-defined porous structures and composition distributions.
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