Hybrid Silica Aerogel

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J.H.Z. Dos Santos

doi:10.21741/9781644900994-3

Hybrid Silica Aerogel

Matheus Costa Cichero, João Henrique Zimnoch Dos Santos

Silica aerogel is one of most promising material in many application segments, such as insulator, adsorbents, catalyst, batteries, sensing and drug delivery devices and many more. All due its impressive properties as low thermal conductivity, low density and high surface area. In spite of the potential, silica aerogel is associated with some drawbacks as cost, time-consuming process and especially the inherent brittleness that limits its full applicability. To overpass these disadvantages, one of the most common procedures is to incorporate an organic compound to the silica backbone – enhancing its mechanical strength and potentially decreasing processing time – and thus creating a hybrid silica aerogel. This chapter presents an overview of the recent strategies adopted in the literature that utilizes polymers, biomolecules and graphene when composing hybrid silica aerogel.

Keywords
Hybrid Silica Aerogel, Silica, Polymer, Biomolecule, Graphene

Published online 9/20/2020, 26 pages

Citation: Matheus Costa Cichero, João Henrique Zimnoch Dos Santos, Hybrid Silica Aerogel, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 84, pp 83-108, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900994-3

Part of the book on Aerogels I

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