The innovations of materials science and modern technologies are boosting the prosperity
of polymer composites in various emerging multi-disciplinary fields. Cooperating with the …

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 …

Ceramic aerogels are attractive for many applications due to their ultralow density, high
porosity, and multifunctionality but are limited by the typical trade-off relationship between …

Aerogels have many attractive properties but are usually costly and mechanically brittle,
which always limit their practical applications. While many efforts have been made to …

Oxide ceramics are widely used as thermal protection materials due to their excellent
structural properties and earth abundance. However, in extremely high‐temperature …

Inspired by microstructures of polar bear hair, herein, we describe a simple solution-based
strategy to fabricate a macroscopic-scale and lightweight carbon tube aerogel with super …

Polymer-based aerogels have many uses because they possess excellent mechanical
properties, such as high moduli and remarkable fatigue resistances. Freeze drying is an …

Porous starch materials with various morphology and properties were made via starch
dissolution, retrogradation and drying either with supercritical CO 2 (“aerogels”) or …

A facile yet versatile approach to transparent, highly flexible, machinable, superinsulating
organic–inorganic hybrid aerogels is presented. This method involves radical …

The creation of a porous medium with high solar energy harvesting and conversion
efficiency as well as desired robustness is essential for construction of an efficient solar …