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Reinforced and superinsulating silica aerogel through in situ cross-linking with silane terminated prepolymers

Iswar, Subramaniam ; Snellings, Geert M. B. F. ; Zhao, Shanyu ; Erni, Rolf ; Bahk, Yeon Kyoung ; Wangd, Jing ; Lattuada, Marco ; Koebel, Matthias M. ; Malfait, Wim J.

In: Acta Materialia, 2018, vol. 147, p. 322–328

Silica aerogels have only half the thermal conductivity of conventional insulation, but their application potential is limited by the poor mechanical properties. The fragility arises from the thin necks between the silica nanoparticle building blocks. Here, we produce strong silica aerogels through co-gelation of the polyethoxydisiloxane precursor with a variety of silane terminated...