Mechanically tunable PDMS-based polyHIPE acoustic materials
Tucker J. McKenzie, Kathryn Rost, Soren Smail, Olivier Mondain‐Monval, Thomas Brunet, Neil Ayres
Abstract
Porous PDMS elastomers were synthesized using emulsion templated thiol–ene “click” reactions to obtain materials with tunable storage moduli at a single porosity value that achieve low sound speed values of ∼40 m s −1 .
Topics & Concepts
Materials scienceElastomerPorosityEmulsionComposite materialPorous mediumSpeed of soundChemical engineeringAcousticsEngineeringPhysicsAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsPolydiacetylene-based materials and applicationsAdvanced Materials and Mechanics