Acoustic properties of cellular vitreous carbon foams

The present work deals with acoustic properties of highly porous rigid foams derived from flavonoid tannins. Such cellular solids derived from renewable resources were investigated before and after pyrolysis, the latter leading to cellular, vitreous, carbon foams. It is demonstrated here that these lightweight materials have a high air flow resistivity, which depends on the density of the foam. Vitreous carbon foams, especially, have rather low...