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

Silica aerogels exhibit considerable potential for thermal insulation applications owing to
their low thermal conductivity. However, they generally possess poor mechanical properties …

Ceramic aerogels exhibit remarkable thermal insulation for energy efficient building
applications, while it is indispensable to understand their nanoporous structure evolution to …

To replace traditional preparation methods of silica aerogels, a small-molecule 1, 2-
epoxypropane (PO) has been introduced into the preparation process instead of using …

A variety of hierarchical nanoporous silica aerogels with diversified particle distributions
were synthesized from well-dispersed silica sols by a traditional sol–gel method. Among the …

Owing to their ultra-low thermal conductivity, silica aerogels are promising thermal
insulators; however, their extensive application is limited by their high production cost. Thus …

Silica aerogel (SA) is a nanoporous material and has attracted increasing attention in the
field of thermal insulation in recent years. In this work, the thermal stability and pyrolysis …

In this study, silica aerogels were prepared using water-glass precursor based on two drying
strategies, namely conventional freeze drying (C-FD) and spray freeze drying (S-FD). It was …

Silica aerogels have incomparable advantages among thermal insulation materials because
of their ultralow density and thermal conductivity, but cumbersome production processes …

Ceramic aerogels are promising high-temperature thermal insulation materials due to their
outstanding thermal stability and oxidation resistance. However, restricted by nanoparticle …