A Composite Cooling Powder and Its Thixotropic Hydrogel

Abstract

Due to large volume and high hardness of thermal insulation materials mostly used in high temperature fields, a composite cooling powder and its thixotropic hydrogel for thermal protection are presented. The core of composite cooling material powder is super absorbent polymer, composing with metal salt, polysaccharide hydrosol and inorganic particles and other modifiers through a series of composite process, which can be easily stored for a long time. When needed, the powder can be mixed with water to obtain a kind of thixotropic hydrogel in a very short time. Experimental results show this thermal protection technology with thixotropic ability has excellent thermal protection performance, meanwhile flexible, adhesive and low cost, which exerts instantaneous cooling, efficient thermal protection and long-lasting flame-retardant protection.