Journal
AGGREGATE
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/agt2.30
Keywords
aerogels; aggregate; inorganic nanoparticles; polymeric nanofibers; thermal insulation
Funding
- Hubei Provincial Department of Education [D20201701]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51873166, 51873165]
- Major Technology Innovation of Hubei Province [2019AAA035]
- Program of Hubei Technology Innovation-International Collaboration [2017AHB065]
- Hubei Province Central Government Guides Local Science and Technology Development Projects [2018ZYYD057]
- Applied Fundamental Research Program of Wuhan Municipal Science and Technology Bureau [2017060201010165]
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Aerogel, a promising high-performance insulation material, has challenges such as inherent brittleness and high manufacturing costs in traditional inorganic aerogels; polymer nanofiber-based aerogels exhibit ultra-low thermal conductivity and density, excellent elasticity, and designable multifunctionality, with a simplified preparation process. The aggregation of inorganic nanomaterials and polymer nanofibers provides highly flexible, easily available, and multifunctional composite aerogels.
Aerogel is a nanoporous solid material with ultrahigh porosity, ultralow density, and thermal conductivity, which is considered to be one of the most promising high-performance insulation materials today. However, traditional pure inorganic aerogels (i.e., silica aerogel) exhibit inherent structural brittleness, making their processing and handling difficult, and their manufacturing costs are relatively high, which limits their large-scale practical use. The recently developed aerogel based on polymer nanofibers has ultralow thermal conductivity and density, excellent elasticity, and designable multifunction. More importantly, one-dimensional polymer nanofibers are directly used as building blocks to construct the network of aerogels via a gelation-free process. This greatly simplifies the aerogel preparation process, thereby bringing opportunities for large-scale aerogel applications. The aggregation of inorganic nanomaterials and polymer nanofibers is considered to be a very attractive strategy for obtaining highly flexible, easily available, and multifunctional composite aerogels. Therefore, this review summarizes the recent advances in novel aerogels through the hybrid aggregation of inorganic nanomaterials and polymeric fibers for thermal insulation. The main processing routes, porous microstructure, mechanical properties, and thermal properties and applications of these aerogels are highlighted. In addition, various future challenges faced by these aerogels in thermal insulation applications are discussed in this review.
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