Noise reduction remains an important priority in the modern society, in particular, for urban
areas and highly populated cities. Insulation of buildings and transport systems such as …

Plasmonic nanoparticles are doped in silica aerogels for high-efficiency photothermal
conversion of solar energy in seawater desalination and so on. However, this suffers from …

Sodium silicate solutions, also known as waterglass, have been found to have remarkable
utility in a variety of applications. The cumulative weight of evidence from 70 years of varied …

The springback effect during ambient pressure drying of aerogels is an interesting structural
phenomenon, consisting of a severe shrinkage followed by almost complete re-expansion …

Silica aerogels are being extensively studied for aerospace and transportation applications
due to their diverse multifunctional properties. While their microstructural features dictate …

Abstract Development of silica aerogels for real applications requires control of their
mechanical properties. Based on the sol-gel procedure and using the alkoxide precursor of …

Ambient pressure drying (APD) can prospectively reduce the costs of aerogel fabrication
and processing. APD relies solely on preventing shrinkage or making it reversible. The …

The structural features in silica aerogels are known to be modelled effectively by the
diffusion-limited cluster–cluster aggregation (DLCA) approach. In this paper, an artificial …

Silica aerogel can be applied to the concentrated solar power (CSP) plants to achieve a
high operation temperature due to the high optical transparency and thermal insulation …

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