Ultralight and mechanically robust SiC foams with interconnected cellular architecture

Autor: Yuju Lu, Jinlong Yang, Yedong Rong, Yong Huang, Yi Zhao, Jingjing Liu, Lu Wang, Xiaoqing Xi, Bo Ren
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Ceramics International. 46:17962-17968
ISSN: 0272-8842
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2020.04.108
Popis: Engineering highly porous SiC foams with interconnected cellular architecture and satisfactory compressive strength for the practical applications remains a challenging task. In the current work, SiC foams bonded by in-situ formed mullite phase were fabricated via polyurethane foaming using boehmite sol-coated SiC powder as the raw material. The strategy in the current work endowed the resultant products with ultrahigh porosity, interconnected pore structure, and a robust mullite bonding phase among the SiC particles. The resulting products with this cellular architecture possessed a high porosity level of 88.5% and maintained a robust compressive strength of 2.56 MPa. Our results showed that as-prepared products are promising for practical applications in the filtration, adsorption and catalytic areas.
Databáze: OpenAIRE