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Silica-Resorcinol-Melamine-Formaldehyde Composite Aerogels as High-Performance Thermal Insulators.
Civioc, Romain; Malfait, Wim J; Lattuada, Marco; Koebel, Matthias M; Galmarini, Sandra.
Afiliação
  • Civioc R; Laboratory for Building Energy Materials and Components, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland.
  • Malfait WJ; Laboratory for Building Energy Materials and Components, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland.
  • Lattuada M; Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 9, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • Koebel MM; Laboratory for Building Energy Materials and Components, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland.
  • Galmarini S; Laboratory for Building Energy Materials and Components, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland.
ACS Omega ; 7(17): 14478-14489, 2022 May 03.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35557694
Here, we report the gelation and supercritical drying of ethanol-based silica-resorcinol-melamine-formaldehyde (RMF) composite aerogels with relative concentrations of initial reagents ranging from neat silica to neat RMF alcogels. The as-prepared materials are subsequently supercritically dried with carbon dioxide. Their properties include a thermal conductivity in the 15-20 mW·m-1·K-1 range even with a silica content as low as 20%wt. The possible reasons behind this interesting insulation performance and the mechanisms leading to the underlying gel structure are discussed in depth. A focus is made on the different gelation modes happening between the RMF and silica phases, from a coating of silica surfaces with RMF species to discontinuous RMF particles within a silica backbone and a continuous RMF backbone with isolated silica particles. The implications in terms of mechanical properties and thermal conductivity are elaborated upon. The initial ratio of silica-RMF species in this ethanol-based synthesis affects the micro- and macrostructure of the composites, resulting in materials with drastically different pore structures and thus an interesting array of possibilities for a new class of silica-organic composite aerogels, based on a sol-gel process.

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: ACS Omega Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: ACS Omega Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article