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Large-scale assembly of isotropic nanofiber aerogels based on columnar-equiaxed crystal transition

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  • Lei Li

    (Tsinghua University
    Beijing Institute of Technology)

  • Yiqian Zhou

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Yang Gao

    (Peking University)

  • Xuning Feng

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Fangshu Zhang

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Weiwei Li

    (North University of China)

  • Bin Zhu

    (Nanjing University)

  • Ze Tian

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Peixun Fan

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Minlin Zhong

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Huichang Niu

    (Guangdong Huitian Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd)

  • Shanyu Zhao

    (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Empa)

  • Xiaoding Wei

    (Peking University)

  • Jia Zhu

    (Nanjing University)

  • Hui Wu

    (Tsinghua University)

Abstract

Ice-templating technology holds great potential to construct industrial porous materials from nanometers to the macroscopic scale for tailoring thermal, electronic, or acoustic transport. Herein, we describe a general ice-templating technology through freezing the material on a rotating cryogenic drum surface, crushing it, and then re-casting the nanofiber slurry. Through decoupling the ice nucleation and growth processes, we achieved the columnar-equiaxed crystal transition in the freezing procedure. The highly random stacking and integrating of equiaxed ice crystals can organize nanofibers into thousands of repeating microscale units with a tortuous channel topology. Owing to the spatially well-defined isotropic structure, the obtained Al2O3·SiO2 nanofiber aerogels exhibit ultralow thermal conductivity, superelasticity, good damage tolerance, and fatigue resistance. These features, together with their natural stability up to 1200 °C, make them highly robust for thermal insulation under extreme thermomechanical environments. Cascading thermal runaway propagation in a high-capacity lithium-ion battery module consisting of LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 cathode, with ultrahigh thermal shock power of 215 kW, can be completely prevented by a thin nanofiber aerogel layer. These findings not only establish a general production route for nanomaterial assemblies that is conventionally challenging, but also demonstrate a high-energy-density battery module configuration with a high safety standard that is critical for practical applications.

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  • Lei Li & Yiqian Zhou & Yang Gao & Xuning Feng & Fangshu Zhang & Weiwei Li & Bin Zhu & Ze Tian & Peixun Fan & Minlin Zhong & Huichang Niu & Shanyu Zhao & Xiaoding Wei & Jia Zhu & Hui Wu, 2023. "Large-scale assembly of isotropic nanofiber aerogels based on columnar-equiaxed crystal transition," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-11, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-41087-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41087-y
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