Polyacrylate resin composite materials with the mineral exhibit super water absorbency and good degradation ability. In this work, expanded perlite and sodium polyacrylate resin composite materials have been prepared with ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN), N,N’-methylene bisacrylamide (MBA), tapioca starch, and expanded perlite. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM) are used to characterize the bonds absorption peaks and morphologies. The results suggest that the expanded perlite can graft on sodium polyacrylate resin, and the optimal distilled water and 0.9% NaCl absorbency are 1079 and 253 g/g when the expanded perlite content is 8 wt%, respectively. The swelling water model of the composite materials is firstly simulated to be Voigt-based model. In addition, the composite materials absorbency that is influenced by special characteristics of the expanded perlite has been shown.

Low-grade nonmetal ore, mainly magmatic soil and tuff, was used to prepare porous sound-absorbing ceramics. A new processing method that combines the foaming and templating methods was used to produce open-cell porous ceramics. Silicon carbide and carbon powders were used as the foaming agent and template agent, respectively, and their effects on open-cell preparation and sound-absorption properties were also investigated. The results showed that sound-absorption performance was closely related to the apparent porosity (H). Compared with either foaming or template methods, the new method incorporating both processes increased the sound-absorption coefficient (α) and H by 51%-258% and 69%-728%, respectively. Optimum sound absorption of the ceramics, that is, α = 0.68, noise reduction coefficient (NRC) = 0.48, and H = 50.22%, were obtained at foaming agent contents (FACs) of 1.5 wt% and template agent contents (TACs) of 4 wt%. The Delany-Bazley and Voronina models were selected to simulate the sound-absorption coefficients and the latter one fitted well with our experimental results. K E Y W O R D Scombined foamed and templated method, open cell, sound-absorption mechanism, sound-absorbing ceramics, voronina model

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