Tailoring of a robust asymmetric aramid nanofibers/MXene aerogel film for enhanced infrared thermal camouflage and Joule heating performances

Wanbin Dang; Wei Guo; Wenting Chen; Qiuyu Zhang

doi:10.1007/s12274-023-5895-4

Nano Research 2024, 17(3): 1990-1998 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5895-4

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Tailoring of a robust asymmetric aramid nanofibers/MXene aerogel film for enhanced infrared thermal camouflage and Joule heating performances

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Wanbin Dang, Wei Guo(

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Key Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China

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thermal insulation, asymmetric aerogel film, Joule heating performance, low infrared (IR)-emissivity, IR thermal camouflage

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Dang W, Guo W, Chen W, et al. Tailoring of a robust asymmetric aramid nanofibers/MXene aerogel film for enhanced infrared thermal camouflage and Joule heating performances. Nano Research, 2024, 17(3): 1990-1998. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5895-4

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The development of infrared (IR) surveillance technology has led to a growing interest in thermal camouflage. However, the trade-off relationship between low IR-emissivity and thermal insulation hinders the advance of thermal camouflage materials. Herein, guided by multi-physics simulation, we show a design of asymmetric aramid nanofibers/MXene (ANF/MXene) aerogel film that realizes high-efficient thermal camouflage applications. The rationale is that the asymmetric structure contains a thermal-insulation three-dimensional (3D) network part to prevent effective heat transfer and a low IR-emissivity (~ 0.3) dense surface layer to suppress radiative heat emission. It is remarkable that the synergy mechanism in the topology structure contributes to over 40% reduction of target radiation temperature. Impressively, the tailored asymmetric ANF/MXene aerogel film also enables sound mechanical properties such as a Young’s modulus of 44.4 MPa and a tensile strength of 1.3 MPa, superior to most aerogel materials. It also exhibits great Joule heating performances including low driving voltage (4 V), fast thermal response (< 10 s), and long-term stability, further enabling its versatile thermal camouflage applications. This work offers an innovative design concept to configure multifunctional structures for next-generation thermal management applications.

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Tailoring of a robust asymmetric aramid nanofibers/MXene aerogel film for enhanced infrared thermal camouflage and Joule heating performances

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Keywords: thermal insulation, asymmetric aerogel film, Joule heating performance, low infrared (IR)-emissivity, IR thermal camouflage

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Received: 14 April 2023

Revised: 25 May 2023

Accepted: 04 June 2023

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51673156 and 52202301), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. D5000210607), the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (No. 2022JQ-143), and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos. 2022M722587 and 2022TQ0256). The authors would like to acknowledge the support from the Analytical & Testing Center of Northwestern Polytechnical University for TEM and SEM testing. We thank Shiyanjia Lab (www.shiyanjia.com) for the help with theoretical calculation.