Silica aerogels are considered as the distinguished materials of the future due to their
extremely low thermal conductivity, low density, and high surface area. They are widely used …

The objective of this research was to develop a reinforced silica aerogel composites with
enhanced thermal insulation performance under thermal-force coupling conditions. Phenolic …

Silica aerogels are nanostructured, highly porous solids which have, compared to other soft
materials, special mechanical properties, such as extremely low densities. In the present …

The nanomechanics during the indentation test on low-density nanoporous silica aerogels
remains one of the least understood and explored areas of mechanics. In the present work …

Silica aerogels possess a variety of unique and remarkable properties, but the mechanisms
of silicon alkoxide, Si (OR) 4, hydrolyses and oligomerization in the initial stage of sol–gel …

Polydicyclopentadiene (pDCPD) is a polymer of emerging technological significance from
separations to armor. It is a paradigm of ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) …

Silica aerogels are highly porous 3D nanostructures and have exhibited excellent physio-
chemical properties. Although silica aerogels have broad potential in many fields, the poor …

Reconstructing aerogel morphology presents significant challenges, in particular, if 3D
visualizations of their mesoporous network are desired. Available microscopic and …

Whatever the field of application (building, transportation, packaging, etc.) energy losses
must be reduced to meet the government target of a 40% cut in CO2 emissions. This leads to …

Mechanically strong polymer-crosslinked templated silica aerogel (CTSA) monoliths with
ordered tubular mesopores were synthesized through an acid-catalyzed, surfactant …