Superhydrophobic and elastic silica/polyimide aerogel based on double confinement growth strategy of the co-sol system

Author(s):  
Zhou Xiao ◽  
Jing Che ◽  
Huaxin Li ◽  
Xian Yue ◽  
Xianbo Yu ◽  
...  

Polyimide (PI) aerogels with high thermal stability and low thermal conductivity can be used in the field of high temperature insulation. However, the super-hydrophilicity of PI aerogel will cause the...

2006 ◽  
Vol 317-318 ◽  
pp. 501-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mineaki Matsumoto ◽  
Norio Yamaguchi ◽  
Hideaki Matsubara

Effect of La2O3 addition on thermal conductivity and high temperature stability of YSZ coating produced by EB-PVD was investigated. La2O3 was selected as an additive because it had a significant effect on suppressing densification of YSZ. The developed coating showed extremely low thermal conductivity as well as high resistance to sintering. Microstructural observation revealed that the coating had fine feather-like subcolumns and nanopores, which contributed to limit thermal transport. These nanostructures were thought to be formed by suppressing densification during deposition.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (36) ◽  
pp. 19406-19415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Lefèvre ◽  
David Berthebaud ◽  
Oleg Lebedev ◽  
Olivier Pérez ◽  
Célia Castro ◽  
...  

A new ternary layered compound In2Ge2Te6, belonging to the hexatellurogermanate family has been synthesized from the reaction of appropriate amounts of the pure elements at high temperature in sealed silica tubes.


Molecules ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 3192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Chen ◽  
Xiaodong Wang ◽  
Wenhui Ding ◽  
Wenbing Zou ◽  
Qiong Zhu ◽  
...  

Owing to their ultra-low thermal conductivity, silica aerogels are promising thermal insulators; however, their extensive application is limited by their high production cost. Thus, scientists have started to explore low-cost and easy preparation processes of silica aerogels. In this work, a low-cost method was proposed to prepare silica aerogels with industrial silica hydrosol and a subsequent ambient pressure drying (APD) process. Various surfactants (cationic, amphoteric, or anionic) were added to avoid solvent exchange and surface modification during the APD process. The effects of various surfactants on the microstructure, thermal conductivity, and thermal stability of the silica aerogels were studied. The results showed that the silica aerogels prepared with a cationic or anionic surfactant have better thermal stability than that prepared with an amphoteric surfactant. After being heated at 600 °C, the silica aerogel prepared with a cationic surfactant showed the highest specific surface area of 131 m2∙g−1 and the lowest thermal conductivity of 0.038 W∙m−1∙K−1. The obtained low-cost silica aerogel with low thermal conductivity could be widely applied as a thermal insulator for building and industrial energy-saving applications.


2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (48) ◽  
pp. 17053-17060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijayakumar Sajitha Aswathy ◽  
Cheriyedath Raj Sankar ◽  
Manoj Raama Varma ◽  
Abdeljalil Assoud ◽  
Mario Bieringer ◽  
...  

The layered chalcogenides, TlScQ2 (Q = Se, Te), possess intriguing band structure characteristics and very low thermal conductivity.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1102 ◽  
pp. 67-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Hua Yang ◽  
Jin Yang Liu ◽  
Li Mei Lin ◽  
Fa Chun Lai ◽  
Yan Qu ◽  
...  

In terms of good optical properties and high thermal stability, Mo/Si3N4/Mo/Si3N4/SiO2 coatings based on metal/dielectric multilayer structure were adapted to the solar selective coating at high operating temperatures. The coatings exhibited high solar absorptance in the range of 0.924 ~ 0.936 and low thermal emittance of 0.114 ~ 0.118. The coatings deposited on quartz substrates were thermally stable up to 625 °C in air for 2 h, while they were degraded at 650 °C from the characterization of the absorptance and emittance. The degradation of the coatings was mainly due to the oxidation of molybdenum in air, which was confirmed by Raman spectroscopy. Compared with the thermal stability in air, the coatings were much more stable in vacuum under high temperature. The remarkable thermal stability of the Mo/Si3N4/Mo/Si3N4/SiO2 coatings in air and in vacuum makes them suitable to be applied at high temperature applications.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zifan Zhao ◽  
Huimin Xiang ◽  
Heng Chen ◽  
Fu-zhi Dai ◽  
Xiaohui Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract The critical requirements for the environmental barrier coating (EBC) materials of silicon-based ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) including good tolerance to harsh environments, thermal expansion match with the interlayer mullite, good high-temperature phase stability and low thermal conductivity. Cuspidine-structured rare-earth aluminates RE4Al2O9 have been considered as candidates of EBCs for their superior mechanical and thermal properties, but the phase transition at high temperatures is a notable drawback of these materials. To suppress the phase transition and improve the phase stability, a novel cuspidine-structured rare-earth aluminate solid solution (Nd0.2Sm0.2Eu0.2Y0.2Yb0.2)4Al2O9 was designed and successfully synthesized inspired by entropy stabilization effect of high entropy ceramics. The as-synthesized (Nd0.2Sm0.2Eu0.2Y0.2Yb0.2)4Al2O9 exhibits close thermal expansion coefficient (6.96×10-6 /K at 300-1473 K) to that of mullite, good phase stability from 300 K to 1473 K, and low thermal conductivity (1.50 W·m-1·K-1 at room temperature). In addition, strong anisotropic thermal expansion has been observed compared to Y4Al2O9 and Yb4Al2O9. The mechanism for low thermal conductivity is attributed to the lattice distortion and mass difference of the constituent atoms while the anisotropic thermal expansion is due to the anisotropic chemical bonding enhanced by the large size rare earth cations.


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