Silica aerogels are nanostructured porous solids with an open pore structure, high surface
area, high porosity, low bulk density, and low thermal/electrical conductivity, which have …

Silica aerogels are nanostructured, porous solids with an open pore structure. Their unique
properties are of great interest to researchers in the field of science and technology …

Silica aerogels generally exhibit poor mechanical properties, which seriously restrict their
commercial use and makes it necessary to reinforce their structures to obtain materials …

In order to remove the organic dyes of textile waste water, the silica aerogel was
successfully prepared by using E-40 as a novel precursor and then dried in ambient …

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(Continued) Primary Examiner Amir Zarabian Assistant Examiner-Christy Novacek (74)
Attorney, Agent, or Firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew (57) ABSTRACT Specific …

An anti-reflection coating having a luminous reflectance of 2% or less to light at an incident
angle of 0-60 and excellent scratch resistance, which comprises a dense layer and a porous …

It is well understood that the wettability of various mate rials is dependent on both the
physical and chemical hetero geneity of the material. The notion of using the contact angle …

Silica Aerogels have emerged as a new class of porous solid-state nanomaterials which
consist of a three‐dimensional (3D) solid silica network with a huge air-filled space of highly …

Aerogel particles can have a very low density, high poros ity, and Small pore diameters.
They can be extremely light weight and are usually formed by replacing the particles in a gel …