Silica aerogels are highly porous solids with very low densities and thermal conductivities.
Their high porosity results in a fractal morphology which has a strong influence on …

Silica aerogels are highly porous solids with very low densities and thermal conductivities.
Their high porosity results in a fractal morphology which has a strong influence on their …

Aerogels are highly porous materials characterized by low thermal conductivities and sound
velocities. Most aerogels exhibit fractal morphology which strongly influences their …

Mechanical properties of aerogels are controlled by the connectivity of their network. In this
paper, in order to study these properties, computational models of silica aerogels with …

The computational modelling of silica aerogels has the potential to investigate mesoporous
phenomena that are difficult to accurately probe from experimental investigations. One such …

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 …

Aerogels are of current interest in the aerospace community due to their light weight and low
thermal conductivity, making them suitable for a variety of applications, notably cryotank …

A new two-level model is proposed to investigate the relationship between the mechanical
properties and microstructure of silica aerogels. This two-level model consists of the particle …

Porous media such as aerogels can exhibit unique properties including low thermal
conductivity, low bulk density, and low sound velocity. However, the limited mechanical …

Aerogels are fascinating and versatile materials, featuring a highly porous network with low
density and very high surface area. They can possess very different chemical compositions …