Electrical-Modulated Flexible Acoustic Metamaterial: Enhancing Low-Frequency Absorption via an Ionic Electroactive Polymer.

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

Anhui Province Key Lab of Aerospace Structural Parts Forming Technology and Equipment, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui 230009, People's Republic of China.

Published: September 2024

The growing concern over low-frequency noise pollution resulting from global industrialization has posed substantial challenges in noise attenuation. However, conventional acoustic metamaterials, with fixed geometries, offer limited flexibility in the frequency range adjustment once constructed. This research unveiled the promising potential of ionic electroactive polymers, particularly ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs), as a superior candidate to design tunable acoustic metamaterial due to its bidirectional energy conversion capabilities. The previously perceived limitations of the IPMC, including slow reaction and high energy expenditure, owning to its inherent sluggish intermediary ionic mass transport process, were astutely leveraged to expedite the attenuation of low-frequency sound energy. Both our experimental and simulation results elucidated that the IPMC can generate voltage potentials in response to acoustic pressure at frequencies significantly higher than those previously established. In addition, the peak absorption frequency can be effectively shifted by up to 45.7% with the application of a 4 V voltage. By further integration with a microperforated panel (MPP) structure, the developed metamaterial absorbers can achieve complete sound absorption, which was continuously tunable under minimal voltage stimulation across a wide frequency spectrum. In addition, a microslit structure IPMC metamaterial absorber was designed to realize modulation of the perforation rate, and the absorption peak can be shifted by up to 79.2%. These findings signify a pioneering application of ionic intelligent materials and may pave the way for further innovations of tunable low-frequency acoustic structures, ultimately advancing the pragmatic deployment of both soft intelligent materials and acoustic metamaterials.

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