This review is focused on describing the intimate link which exists between aerogels and
thermal superinsulation. For long, this applied field has been considered as the most …

Silica aerogels have drawn a lot of interest both in science and technology because of their
low bulk density (up to 95% of their volume is air), hydrophobicity, low thermal conductivity …

Aerogels are solids with high porosity (< 100 nm) and hence possess extremely low density
(∼ 0.003 g/cm3) and very low conductivity (∼ 10 mW/mK). In recent years, aerogels have …

Fly ash based lightweight wall materials (LWM) incorporating expanded perlite (EP)/SiO 2
aerogel composite were successfully prepared towards low thermal conductivity. As a …

We alkylated silica aerogels to make them hydrophobic for effective impregnation and
storage of a phase change material (PCM). As a result of this surface modification treatment …

Silica aerogels (SAs) present great application prospects especially on thermal insulation,
but their flammability is usually ignored. A combined study on the combustion behaviors and …

Epoxy-thiol crosslinked silica aerogels were synthesized with (3-glycidyloxypropyl)
trimethoxysilane and (3-mercaptopropyl) trimethoxysilane as co-precursors in acid and base …

Silica aerogels were synthesized by using tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and
methyltriethoxysilane (MTES) as co-precursors via the sol–gel method under the microwave …

In order to compare the various surface modification methods of ambient-pressure-dried
aerogels, three different surface modification methods, namely co-precursor method …

In this work, monolithic silica aerogels were prepared in pure water within 4 h by using
MTMS as the precursor under ambient pressure drying (APD). The effects of the volume ratio …