A simple, mild, and effective template approach has been used to produce hollow silica nanospheres with controlled sizes ranging from 40 to 150 nanometers. The obtained powders showed systematic variations in measured thermal conductivity, with values down to 0.024 W/(mK) so far, with en expressed goal to reach below 0.020 W/(mK). Surface hydrophobization was successfully performed. Thus, hollow silica nanospheres are considered to be promising building blocks for new hydrophobic, superinsulating materials.
Hollow Silica Nanospheres as a Superinsulating Material
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Publication Year:
2013
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Publication Year:
2013
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- WP: Advanced materials technologies
- Publication Year: 2013
- Pages: 43-44
- Name of proceedings: Proceedings of the 11th International Vacuum Insulation Symposium (IVIS 2013)
- Name of conference: 11th International Vacuum Insulation Symposium (IVIS 2013)
- Town: Dübendorf, Zürich
- Country: Switserland
- Date from: Thursday, 19 September 2013
- Date to: Friday, 20 September 2013
- Editor(s)/Author(s) of the Book: Brunner Samuel; Wakili Karim Ghazi
- Publication Place: Zürich, Switzerland
- Publisher: EMPA Akademie Dübendorf
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