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 …

Flexible ceramic fibers: Recent development in preparation and application

C Jia, Z Xu, D Luo, H Xiang, M Zhu - Advanced Fiber Materials, 2022 - Springer
Flexible ceramic fibers (FCFs) have been developed for various advanced applications due
to their superior mechanical flexibility, high temperature resistance, and excellent chemical …

Hypocrystalline ceramic aerogels for thermal insulation at extreme conditions

J Guo, S Fu, Y Deng, X Xu, S Laima, D Liu, P Zhang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Thermal insulation under extreme conditions requires materials that can withstand complex
thermomechanical stress and retain excellent thermal insulation properties at temperatures …

Biomimetic, mechanically strong supramolecular nanosystem enabling solvent resistance, reliable fire protection and ultralong fire warning

CF Cao, B Yu, J Huang, XL Feng, LY Lv, FN Sun… - Acs Nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
A graphene oxide (GO)-based smart fire alarm sensor (FAS) has gained rapidly increasing
research interest in fire safety fields recently. However, it still remains a huge challenge to …

Thermo‐responsive self‐ceramifiable robust aerogel with exceptional strengthening and thermal insulating performance at ultrahigh temperatures

XC Lin, SL Li, WX Li, ZH Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
High‐performance thermal insulating aerogels are attractive candidates for thermal
protection in extreme environments. However, inorganic aerogels' brittleness and poor …

Highly compressible and anisotropic lamellar ceramic sponges with superior thermal insulation and acoustic absorption performances

C Jia, L Li, Y Liu, B Fang, H Ding, J Song, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Advanced ceramic sponge materials with temperature-invariant high compressibility are
urgently needed as thermal insulators, energy absorbers, catalyst carriers, and high …

Nanoporous boron nitride aerogel film and its smart composite with phase change materials

B Wang, G Li, L Xu, J Liao, X Zhang - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the advent of the 5G era, electronic systems have become more and more powerful,
miniaturized, integrated, and intelligent. The thermal management of electronic systems …

All-ceramic and elastic aerogels with nanofibrous-granular binary synergistic structure for thermal superinsulation

X Zhang, X Cheng, Y Si, J Yu, B Ding - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
High-performance thermally insulating ceramic materials with robust mechanical properties,
high-temperature resistance, and excellent thermal insulation characteristics are highly …

Superelastic, highly conductive, superhydrophobic, and powerful electromagnetic shielding hybrid aerogels built from orthogonal graphene and boron nitride …

L Feng, P Wei, Q Song, J Zhang, Q Fu, X Jia, J Yang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional (3D) elastic aerogels enable diverse applications but are usually
restricted by their low thermal and electrical transfer efficiency. Here, we demonstrate a …

Nanograin–glass dual-phasic, elasto-flexible, fatigue-tolerant, and heat-insulating ceramic sponges at large scales

L Li, C Jia, Y Liu, B Fang, W Zhu, X Li, LA Schaefer, Z Li… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Ceramics are considered intrinsically brittle at room temperature, which is mainly attributed
to the limited availability of crystallographic slips and pre-existing geometrical flaws …