The rising aerogel fibers: status, challenges, and opportunities

Z Sheng, Z Liu, Y Hou, H Jiang, Y Li, G Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aerogel fibers garner tremendous scientific interest due to their unique properties such as
ultrahigh porosity, large specific surface area, and ultralow thermal conductivity, enabling …

Mechanically strengthened aerogels through multiscale, multicompositional, and multidimensional approaches: A Review

VG Parale, T Kim, H Choi, VD Phadtare… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, aerogels have attracted tremendous attention in academia and industry
as a class of lightweight and porous multifunctional nanomaterial. Despite their wide …

Graphene‑Assisted Assembly of Electrically and Magnetically Conductive Ceramic Nanofibrous Aerogels Enable Multifunctionality

B Li, H Tian, L Li, W Liu, J Liu, Z Zeng… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ceramic aerogels are gaining increasing attention due to their low density, high‐
temperature resistance, and excellent chemical stability. However, conventional ceramic …

Crack‐Induced Superelastic, Strength‐Tunable Carbon Nanotube Sponges

Z Ye, B Zhao, Q Wang, K Chen, M Su… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Lightweight strong aerogels have many applications, but they suffer from the trade‐off
between key mechanical properties, and it remains challenging to realize superelastic …

Fast and scalable production of crosslinked polyimide aerogel fibers for ultrathin thermoregulating clothes

T Xue, C Zhu, D Yu, X Zhang, F Lai, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Polyimide aerogel fibers hold promise for intelligent thermal management fabrics, but their
scalable production faces challenges due to the sluggish gelation kinetics and the weak …

Folk arts-inspired twice-coagulated configuration-editable tough aerogels enabled by transformable gel precursors

L Li, G Yang, J Lyu, Z Sheng, F Ma, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Aerogels, as famous lightweight and porous nanomaterials, have attracted considerable
attention in various emerging fields in recent decades, however, both low density and weak …

High-strength magnetic hydrogels with photoweldability made by stepwise assembly of magnetic-nanoparticle-integrated aramid nanofiber composites

Z Wang, H Zhu, H Li, Z Wang, M Sun, B Yang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels capable of transforming in response to a magnetic field hold great promise for
applications in soft actuators and biomedical robots. However, achieving high mechanical …

Recyclable adsorbent aerogels by in-situ growth of ZIF-8 on aramid nanofibers/poly (vinyl alcohol) for multiple water pollutants

Z Wang, X He, M Miao, X Feng - Separation and Purification Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Water pollution from human activities such as sanitary wastewater, agricultural run-off and
industrial discharges is becoming an increasingly serious issue, which has caused …

Light-emitting microfibers from lotus root for eco-friendly optical waveguides and biosensing

X Yang, L Xu, S Xiong, H Rao, F Tan, J Yan, Y Bao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Optical biosensors based on micro/nanofibers are highly valuable for probing and
monitoring liquid environments and bioactivity. Most current optical biosensors, however …

Superelastic and thermal insulating multilayer organic-inorganic hybrid aerogel built from boron nitride nanoribbons and aramid nanofibers

L Feng, P Wei, S Ding, Q Song, J Zhang… - … Science and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermally insulating aramid nanofiber (ANF) aerogels enable a wide range of applications
but are limited by their low mechanical elasticity. Efficient design of aerogels' components …