• Comprehensive review of all approaches used to assemble aerogel-fiber materials. “In situ sol-gel” and “via pre-formed aerogel” are described evaluated. Enhanced mechanical/physical properties obtained while keeping low thermal conductivity. An overview the market future research trends identified. Silica aerogels have a unique structure that makes them promising materials for variable applic...

background: silica aerogel is the nano-porous form silica which is the lightest synthetic solid material. some specific properties of this material include high surface area (1500 m2.g-1), low density (< 0.03 g.cm-3) and high porosity (%99). in this research, silica aerogel was investigated as an adsorbent of the heavy metal cations in aqueous solutions. methods: the silica aerogel was synthesi...

Introduction: Stardust returned to Earth samples from comet Wild 2. Until now most of the studies have been performed on terminal particles located at the end of the deceleration tracks. However, synchrotron X-ray fluorescence studies showed that a significant fraction of the cometary material is unevenly distributed along the tracks [1-2]. Here we present results of a transmission electron mic...

Charge flow in metals and mass flow in a neutral Fermi liquid show distinct profiles and are governed by different conservation properties. The connections between these two aspects of flow become apparent when we study the viscous flow of normal liquid 3He in the presence of aerogel. While the thermal flow is trivially affected, we predict that the resistance to mass flow shows a crossover fro...

We have found a new stable spin state in the A-like phase of superfluid He confined to intrinsically anisotropic aerogel. The state can be formed by radiofrequency excitation applied while cooling through the superfluid transition temperature and its NMR properties are different from the standard A-like phase obtained in the limit of very small excitation. It is possible that this new state is ...

Titanium dioxide nano-particles were synthesized via the sol-gel method using titanium butoxide as the precursor. Acid catalyzed and aged gels were dried under air to produce xerogels and under supercritical conditions to produce aerogels. Porous particles obtained were characterized using X-ray diffraction, SEM and BET analysis. Aerogel powder was found to have more favorable properties compar...