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Annual Reviews of Heat Transfer

ISSN 1049-0787

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$175.00 (Must be sent to your home address)

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$349.00

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various

Year 2005

617 pages

Volume price - $141.00

AEROGELS: UNIQUE MATERIAL, FASCINATING PROPERTIES AND UNLIMITED APPLICATIONS

Pamela M. Norris
University of Virginia, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Bldg., Room 342, 122 Engineer's Way, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4746, USA

Sushil Shrinivasan
University of Virginia, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Bldg., Room 342, 122 Engineer's Way, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4746, USA

ABSTRACT

This chapter follows a chapter in the sixth volume of this book series focused on fascinating ultra-porous materials referred to as aerogels. That chapter focused on applications in thermal insulation and catalysis. In this chapter, the production process for these sol-gel-derived materials is presented, and the characterization techniques are reviewed. In recent years much progress has been made in commercialization of aerogel materials and a summary of many potential applications, ranging from acoustic impedance matching layers to biosensors, is provided.