In recent decades, aerogels have attracted tremendous attention in academia and industry
as a class of lightweight and porous multifunctional nanomaterial. Despite their wide …

Silica aerogels are futuristic materials. However, the real-world applications of these
materials are limited owing to their fragility. A variety of composite materials have been …

Due to their many excellent properties, aerogels attract much interest in various applications,
ranging from construction to medicine. Over the last decades, their potential was practically …

A novel light but strong SiC foam with hierarchical porous architecture was fabricated by
using dough as raw material via carbonization followed by carbothermal reduction with …

Polyurethane foam (PUF) is widely used in building insulation field but highly flammable. In
an effort to develop an efficient way to reduce flammability and smoke release of PUF …

The surprising properties of biomaterials are the results of billions of years of evolution.
Generally, biomaterials are assembled under mild conditions with very limited supply of …

Aerogels are attracting increasing attention due to their high thermal insulation ability as well
as unique properties such as high porosity, surface area, and transparency. However, low …

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 …

The term aerogel is used for unique solid-state structures composed of three-dimensional
(3D) interconnected networks filled with a huge amount of air. These air-filled pores …

Silica aerogels are unique solids with extremely high porosity, transparency and low density.
They make excellent adsorbing materials due to their high surface area and three …