Toronto, Ontario — You may not be able to hear them coming, but make sure you aren’t sleeping on the moves being made by the Materials Sciences Corporation (MSC) in the development of their innovative “Quiet Aluminum” product, which has reportedly been gaining momentum in the electric vehicles sector.
The company’s CTO, Matt Murphy, delved into the specifics of the material at a webinar last month, where he announced that the material would be used in nine components in an upcoming electric vehicle.
Murphy described the technology used to develop the product’s “engineered viscoelastic layer”, which is layered between two aluminum skins, giving the material “excellent noise-damping properties,” according to Murphy.
Murphy says that this technology will help shed “a lot of mass” put on vehicles by more traditional forms of noise dampening that can often weigh “easily a hundred pounds.”
MSC’s Quiet Aluminum has appeared on the Ford F-150 firewall dating back to the 2004 model, although it is unclear if it will be on the next-generation 2021 F-150. It was present during the pickup’s inaugural aluminum 2015-20 generation.
