Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 9, Issue 36, Pages 20695-20702Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1ta06161e
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- TC II lab at UDE
- TMC lab at WHS
- Villigst foundation
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Novel polyolefin aerogels with nanostructured, robust properties were successfully obtained using sorbitol-based organogelators and freeze-drying techniques. The study investigated the impact of different polymer types, molecular weights, and concentrations on structure, mechanical stability, and thermal conductivity, proposing a mechanism for structure formation. Additionally, Soxhlet extraction was shown to optimize the drying process and partially recover the necessary gelator component for the composite aerogels.
Sorbitol-based organogelators were used to obtain nanostructured, robust polyolefin gels that could be freeze-dried into aerogels. Finding the ideal ratio of polymer to gelator led to homogeneous, fine structures with good mechanical stability and low thermal conductivity. The influence of polymer type, molecular weight and concentration was studied with regard to structure, compressive strength and thermal conductivity and a mechanism for the structure formation was postulated. Moreover, Soxhlet extraction was shown as a route to optimize the drying process and partially recover the gelator that is required as a structure-directing component, but partially also necessary in the final composite. The materials presented here are novel and useful composite aerogels with potential applications as insulating materials, porous supports, adsorbents, catalyst carriers and membranes.
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