Ceramic Nanofiber Sponges

Researchers have made ultralight highly porous compressible and heat resistant sponge like materials from nanoscale ceramic fibers.

Ceramic nanofiber sponges.

Ultralight scalable high temperature resilient ceramic nanofiber sponges these sponges can be used for flexible insulation and water purification. Authors haolun wang. Compressive behavior of ceramic nanofiber sponges at room temperature the ceramic nanofiber sponges can be repeatedly compressed to large strains withmarkedrecoverability aftereachcompression asshownin fig 2a fig s6 andmovies1 torevealtheunderlyingmechanism we. We show that ceramic nanofiber sponges can serve multiple functions such as elasticity dependent electrical resistance photocatalytic activity and thermal insulation.

New ceramic nanofiber sponges could be used for flexible insulation water purification by brown university researchers have developed a sponge like material made from ceramic nanofibers. Brown university providence rhode island. Ceramic materials tend to shatter when deformed but new research shows a way of using ultra thin ceramic nanofibers to make squishy heat resistant sponges with a wide variety of potential uses. New ceramic nanofiber sponges could be used for flexible insulation water purification date.

New ceramic nanofiber sponges could be used for flexible insulation water purification nanowerk news researchers have found a way to make ultralight sponge like materials from nanoscale ceramic fibers the highly porous compressible and heat resistant sponges could have numerous uses from water purification devices to flexible insulating materials. Ceramic materials tend to shatter when deformed but. The ceramic nanofiber sponges also exhibit ultralow density superior mechanical chemical stability efficient energy absorption during cyclic loading and multifunctionalities such as elasticity dependent electrical resistance photocatalytic activity and thermal insulation. Ultralight scalable and high temperature resilient ceramic nanofiber sponges sci adv.

New ceramic nanofiber sponges could be used for flexible insulation water purification. They even outperform other ceramic materials al2o3 in insulating at temperature.