Advances in precursor system for silica-based aerogel production toward improved mechanical properties, customized morphology, and multifunctionality: A review

S Karamikamkar, HE Naguib, CB Park - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional silica-based aerogels are among the most promising materials considering
their special properties, such as extremely low thermal conductivity (~ 15 mW/mK) and low …

[HTML][HTML] Flexible and transparent silica aerogels: An overview

VG Parale, KY Lee, HH Park, VG Parale… - Journal of the Korean …, 2017 - jkcs.or.kr
Silica aerogels are attracting attention due to certain outstanding properties such as low bulk
density, low thermal conductivity, high surface area, high porosity, high transparency and …

Metasurface optofluidics for dynamic control of light fields

Q Li, J van de Groep, AK White, JH Song… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The ability to manipulate light and liquids on integrated optofluidics chips has spurred a
myriad of important developments in biology, medicine, chemistry and display technologies …

Progress in silica aerogel-containing materials for buildings' thermal insulation

A Lamy-Mendes, ADR Pontinha, P Alves… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Silica aerogels hold remarkable properties, particularly their translucence/transparency and
extremely low thermal conductivity and density, for buildings thermal insulation purpose …

Lightweight and highly hydrophobic silica aerogels dried in ambient pressure for an efficient oil/organic solvent adsorption

SS Çok, F Koç, N Gi̇zli̇ - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Silica aerogels are ultra-porous materials with three-dimensional cage-like morphology that
makes these materials ideal for separation applications. However, their hydrophilic behavior …

Electrospun nanofiber membranes incorporating PDMS-aerogel superhydrophobic coating with enhanced flux and improved antiwettability in membrane distillation

BJ Deka, EJ Lee, J Guo, J Kharraz… - Environmental science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Electrospun nanofiber membranes (ENMs) have garnered increasing interest due to their
controllable nanofiber structure and high void volume fraction properties in membrane …

A visibly transparent radiative cooling film with self-cleaning function produced by solution processing

G Chen, Y Wang, J Qiu, J Cao, Y Zou, S Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Daylighting structures, including solar cells and building windows, utilize sunlight whilst
suffering from undesired solar heat and outdoor dust contamination. A radiative cooling …

[HTML][HTML] Silica aerogels with tailored chemical functionality

Z Li, S Zhao, MM Koebel, WJ Malfait - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Silica aerogels are highly porous (~ 95%), predominantly mesoporous (20–50 nm) materials
with very high surface area (~ 800 m 2/g), but applications that valorize the chemical …

Low thermal-conductivity and high thermal stable silica aerogel based on MTMS/Water-glass co-precursor prepared by freeze drying

Y Pan, S He, L Gong, X Cheng, C Li, Z Li, Z Liu… - Materials & Design, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, hybrid silica aerogels were prepared by methltrimethoxysilane (MTMS) and
water-glass co-precursor through two-step sol-gel process followed by freeze drying (FD) …

Trimethylchlorosilane modified activated carbon for the adsorption of VOCs at high humidity

Z Li, Y **, T Chen, F Tang, J Cai, J Ma - Separation and Purification …, 2021 - Elsevier
Water vapor is inevitable in practical volatile organic compounds (VOCs) exhaust emission,
leading to the deterioration of activated carbon adsorption performance. A hydrophobic …