Aerogels are an exceptional class of porous material with a number of excellent
physicochemical properties such as low density, high porosity, high surface area and …

Silica aerogels are lightweight and highly porous materials, with a three-dimensional
network of silica particles, which are obtained by extracting the liquid phase of silica gels …

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 …

Silica aerogels are amorphous materials with remarkable properties, such as very high
porosity and specific surface area, and low bulk density and thermal conductivity. However …

Aerogels are a special class of nanostructured materials with very high porosity and tunable
physicochemical properties. Although a few types of aerogels have already reached the …

In this work, the surface structures of biochars, derived from three types of biomass,
switchgrass (SG), hardwood (HW) and softwood (SW) through either fast pyrolysis (FP) in a …

This work involves the application of carbon xerogels in the removal of two emerging
contaminants, caffeine and diclofenac, from aqueous solutions. Textural characterization of …

Silica aerogel and Fe doped silica aerogel composite were synthesized by sol–gel method
adopting ambient pressure drying method. The crystal structure, surface morphology, pore …

More than 30 years separate the two largest oil spills in North American history (the Ixtoc I
and Macondo well blowouts), yet the responses to both disasters were nearly identical in …

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 …