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Superbroad-band actively tunable acoustic metamaterials driven from poly (ethylene terephthalate)/Carbon nanotube nanocomposite membranes

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Actively tunable acoustic metamaterials have attracted ever increasing attention. However, their tunable frequency range is quite narrow (tens of Hz) even under ultrahigh applied voltage (about 1,000 V). Here, we report a superbroad-band actively tunable acoustic metamaterials with the bandwidth over 400 Hz under a low voltage. In the actively tunable acoustic metamaterials, the acoustic membrane is a laminated nanocomposite consisting of a poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) and super-aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) drawn from CNT forest array. The laminated nanocomposite membrane exhibits adjustable acoustic properties, whose modulus can be adjusted by applying external electric field. The maximum frequency bandwidth of PET/CNT nanocomposite membrane reaches 419 Hz when applying an external DC voltage of 60 V. Our actively tunable acoustic metamaterials with superbroad-band and lightweight show very promising foreground in noise reduction applications.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Grant Nos. 52002201, 52008223 and 51772063), Open Fund of innovation institute for Sustainable Maritime Architecture Research and Technology, Qingdao University of Technology (Nu.2020-035), and Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (Grant No. KQTD2016112814303055).

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, 266033, China

    Ying Li, Dongyi Lei & Siyao Guo

  2. National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology for National Defence on Advanced Composites in special Environments, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150080, China

    Ying Li, Qingyu Peng, Minglong Yang, **aodong He & Yibin Li

  3. State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics & Tsinghua-Foxconn Nanotechnology Research Center, Tsinghua University & Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Bei**g, 100084, China

    Wen Ning, Peng Liu & Kaili Jiang

  4. Shenzhen STRONG Advanced Materials Institute Ltd. Corp, Shenzhen, 518000, China

    Qingyu Peng, **aodong He & Yibin Li

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Li, Y., Ning, W., Peng, Q. et al. Superbroad-band actively tunable acoustic metamaterials driven from poly (ethylene terephthalate)/Carbon nanotube nanocomposite membranes. Nano Res. 14, 100–107 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3048-6

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