There have been a number of review papers on layered silicate and carbon nanotube
reinforced polymer nanocomposites, in which the fillers have high aspect ratios. Particulate …

Background Aerogels are highly porous and light-weighted materials with extensive surface
areas. The remarkable thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties render them ideally …

Silica aerogels are ultra-porous materials with three-dimensional cage-like morphology that
makes these materials ideal for separation applications. However, their hydrophilic behavior …

In this paper sound absorption characteristics of silica aerogel/polyester (PET) blankets are
investigated. PET fibers were made on an industrial scale compact melt spinning line and …

Surface modification, which is simply about the end-capping of the reactive silanol groups
located in silica wet gel to satisfy hydrophobic behavior, has great importance in the …

For the first time, recycled car tire fibers (RCTF) shredded from car tire waste are developed
successfully into a novel material, a rubber aerogel, using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and …

An overview of the synthesis conditions and mechanisms for the fabrication of different types
of carbon aerogels, as well as the structural and functional properties of these materials, is …

Millions of tons of plastic are produced annually, but less than 10% are reported to be
recycled. This work sets out to transform environmental plastic (polyethylene terephthalate …

Nanoporous silica aerogels have great potential in the application of thermal insulation.
However, the commonly used supercritical drying technology of nanoporous silica aerogels …

A mesoporous silica aerogel (SiA) with a high specific surface area was synthesized through
the sol-gel process and subsequently modified with two different silane-based modifiers to …