Reported silica aerogels have a thermal conductivity as low as 15 mW/mK. The fragility of silica aerogels, however, makes them impractical for structural applications. The purpose of the study is to improve the ductility of aerogels while retain the low thermal conductivity of silica aerogels. We have established a new synthesis route, a 3-step sol-gel processing method. The method provides bet...

Population growth, coupled with industrialization and urbanization, has resulted in an increasing demand for water thus leading to water crisis and serious consequences on the environment. The effluent stream released from the industries mainly comprises of hazardous chemicals and heavy metal ions. Chromium is abundant in nature and has a dominant presence in most of the effluent streams as com...

Although activated carbon adsorption is an efficient process in water treatment applications, high costs involved in both the production of carbon and the operation of adsorption units have caused to search alternative adsorbents. Agricultural by-products are a group of alternative adsorbent, with only one or several adsorption cycles, which is available locally in a cheap and abundant manner. ...

Phenol-formaldehyde/silica hybrid gel with hydrophobic character, high porosity, and thesmall pore size mean was prepared via sol-gel polymerization under solvent saturated vaporatmosphere and was dried by ambient drying method. The silica sols were prepared based onTetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and Methyltrimethoxysilane (MTES) as hydrophilic and hydrophobicprecursors, respectively. Phenol-formalde...

In this study, catalysts for fatty acid methyl esters (FAME or biodiesel) synthesis with K2CO3 as the active component on an alumina/silica support were synthesized using the sol–gel method, which was followed by drying the “dense” wet gels with supercritical carbon dioxide to obtain the aerogels. The prepared catalysts were characterized by XRD analysis, FTIR spectroscopy and N2 physisorption ...

The synergistic adsorption of heavy metal ions and humic acid can be very challenging. This is largely because of their competitive adsorption onto most adsorbent materials. Hierarchically structured composites containing polyethylenimine-modified magnetic mesoporous silica and graphene oxide (MMSP-GO) were here prepared to address this. Magnetic mesoporous silica microspheres were synthesized ...

Silica aerogels are popular in terms of production volume and real-world applications. Although the current market growth rate is driven exclusively by thermal insulation, may also be attractive for acoustic applications with potential aiding sound absorption/insulation. This paper a summary acoustics related studies silica aerogel-based products. It introduces aerogels, some characterization m...

Cellulose-Derived Aerogels In article number 2102892, Saad A. Khan and co-workers highlight the historical background recent scientific achievements in design, development, performance of hybrid aerogels derived from cellulose. The impact various approaches to incorporate organic inorganic moieties including silica, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), graphene within aerogel matrix is investigated...

Several methods have been employed to synthesize SiC nanowires. The methods include heating silica gel or fumed silica with activated carbon in a reducing atmosphere, the carbon particles being produced in situ in one of the methods. The simplest method to obtain b-SiC nanowires involves heating silica gel with activated carbon at 1360 uC in H2 or NH3. The same reaction, if carried out in the p...

G. Lawes,1 S. C. J. Kingsley,1,* N. Mulders,2 and J. M. Parpia1 1Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware (Received 15 December 1999) We have investigated the superfluid transition of 3He in different samples of silica aerogel. By comparing new measurements on a 99.5% sample ...