Formation of Light-weight Low-density Materials via Gas Phase Aerosol Gelation
- 28 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in MRS Proceedings
- Vol. 1306
Abstract
We have demonstrated that gas phase explosive combustion can lead to nanoparticle aerosols with sufficiently large volume fraction to cause a volume spanning gel to form on the order of ten’s of seconds. The term “aerosol gel” was coined to name these materials. So far we have made aerosol gels of carbon and silica. These aerosol gels are similar to well-known, liquid-phase, sol-gel synthesized aerogels.Keywords
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