8935 results about "Aerogel" patented technology

The invention provides reinforced aerogel monoliths as well as reinforced composites thereof for a variety of uses. Compositions and methods of preparing the monoliths and composites are also provided. Application of these materials in transparent assemblies is also discuss.

Aerogel composite materials having a lofty fibrous batting reinforcement preferably in combination with one or both of individual short randomly oriented microfibers and conductive layers exhibit improved performance in one or all of flexibility, drape, durability, resistance to sintering, x-y thermal conductivity, x-y electrical conductivity, RFI-EMI attenuation, and/or burn-through resistance.

The invention provides reinforced aerogel monoliths as well as fiber reinforced composites thereof for a variety of uses. Compositions and methods of preparing the monoliths and composites are also provided.

The heat insulating composite aerogel material consists of silica aerogel, titania as infrared opacifier and reinforcing fiber in the weight ratio of 1 to 0.1-0.7 to 0.7-3. Its preparation process includes compounding sol with silanolate, surface modifier, titanolate, alcohol solvent, acid catalyst and alkaline catalyst in certain proportion; soaking fiber felt or prefabricated fiber part in the sol; and supercritical fluid drying. The material of the present invention has high blocking effect on solid heat transfer, air heat transfer and infrared radiation heat transfer, excellent hydrophobicity, simple preparation process, low cost, mechanical strength over 2 MPa, and wide application range, and may be used in strict heat protection condition in aeronautics, astronautics, military and civil uses.

The invention relates to an aerogel composite material, in particular to a glass fiber reinforced silicon dioxide aerogel composite material and a preparation method thereof. The excellent properties of aerogel are maintained, the mechanical properties of the aerogel are reinforced, and the glass fiber reinforced silicon dioxide aerogel composite material has good integrity and certain strength. The glass fiber reinforced silicon dioxide aerogel composite material is prepared by compounding glass fiber and silicon dioxide aerogel, wherein the glass fiber is a reinforcement, and the content ofthe glass fiber accounts for 1-15% total mass of a sample; the silicon dioxide aerogel is a matrix, tetraethoxysilane is a silicon source material, and methyltrimethoxysilane or methyltriethoxysilaneis used as a silicon source co-precursor. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: firstly, pretreating the glass fiber; then, preparing glass fiber reinforced silicon dioxide composite wet gel; and finally, aging, secondarily modifying and drying the silicon dioxide composite wet gel.

Composites comprising organic aerogel matrix and inorganic aerogel fillers are described. The methods of manufacturing such composite aerogels are also described. Inorganic aerogels fillers are demonstrated to improve the thermal performance of organic aerogels. Composite aerogels with various organic aerogels and inorganic aerogel fillers are described.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a heat-resisting alumina-silox aerogel thermal-protective composite material, which comprises the following steps: (1) preparing Al2O3 sol; (2) preparing SiO2 sol; (3) preparing Al2O3-SiO2 sol, (4) preparing SiC coating-containing reinforcing fibers; (5) mixing the SiC coating-containing reinforcing fiber felts or fiber prefabricated members and the Al2O3-SiO2 sol; (6) aging; and (7) carrying out drying treatment by using supercritical fluid. The operating temperature of the Al2O3-SiO2 aerogel composite material prepared by the method can reach 1,200 DEG C; and therefore, the Al2O3-SiO2 aerogel composite material has good heat-insulating property and good mechanical property.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a silicon dioxide aerogel composite material at the condition of normal pressure and drying, which comprises the steps as following: (1) silicon dioxide sol and a reinforcing material are compounded and placed statically to form plural gel, and then ageing treatment is carried out to the plural gel; (2) a modifying agent is used for the hydrophobic modification of the aged plural gel, and then ambient pressure drying is carried out for the modified plural gel to obtain the silicon dioxide aerogel composite material at the condition of normal pressure and drying. The silicon dioxide aerogel composite material prepared by the method of the invention has extremely low coefficient of heat conductivity, which greatly increases the added value of the reinforcing materials such as corpus fibrosum, the product can be widely applied to thermal insulation and sound insulation of buildings, thermal insulation and sound insulation in the industrial pipeline transportation, and the like, and expands the application field of silicon dioxide and the corpus fibrosum.

The present invention relates a graphene/metal oxide hybrid aerogel, a preparation method and applications thereof, and belongs to the field of nanometer material applications. The hybrid aerogel comprises a graphene network and a metal oxide network, wherein the two networks are mutually wound to form a hybrid aerogel, and the metal oxide network is further a crystalline state. The hybrid aerogel preparation comprises: preparing a graphene oxide organic solution, adding a soluble metal salt and an epoxide to obtain a uniform non-flowing hybrid wet gel, and carrying out drying and charring to obtain the graphene/metal oxide hybrid aerogel. The hybrid aerogel can be used as an energy storage material, an electromagnetic shielding material, a biological enzyme catalysis carrier and a CO2 absorption material, and has wide applications.

The invention discloses a method for preparing aerogel materials by combining hydrothermal synthesis technology and sol-gel technology. The prepared aerogel comprises one or more of alumina aerogel, silica aerogel, zirconia aerogel and titania aerogel. The method comprises the following steps: mixing a reactant and a structure-directing agent according to certain proportion, and adding a pH value control agent to adjust the pH value; sealing hydrothermal reaction equipment, heating the mixture to be between 50 and 280 DEG C, making the mixture stand for 0 to 72 hours, raising the temperature to be between 60 and 300 DEG C, and continuously reacting for 0.1 to 72 hours; and cooling gel, taking out the gel, drying the gel and obtaining the aerogel. Compared with the prior art, the method has low reaction temperature and pressure, small equipment investment and simple and controllable technology, reduces potential safety hazards, greatly improves the preparation speed of the aerogel, saves the production cost, and is favorable to realize commercial mass production.

The present invention relates to a holding material for a catalytic converter including a catalyst carrier, a metal casing for receiving the catalyst carrier, and the holding material wound around the catalyst carrier and interposed in a gap between the catalyst carrier and the metal casing, the holding material including a low thermal conductivity layer, in which the low thermal conductivity layer includes: a molded material containing an inorganic powder; or a composite material of a porous substrate with an aerogel.

An anti-reflection coating having a luminous reflectance of 2% or less to light at an incident angle of 0-60° and excellent scratch resistance, which comprises a dense layer and a porous silica aerogel layer formed in this order on a substrate such that a refractive index successively decreases from said substrate to said porous layer.

The invention provides a high-performance thermal insulation material and a preparation method thereof. The thermal insulation material comprises silicon dioxide aerogel and a fiber material, wherein, the silicon dioxide aerogel takes silicon dioxide hydrosol as a raw material, and is prepared by adding a catalyst. The method comprises the following steps: sol preparing, sol dipping, gelating, gel ageing, hydrophobization treating and drying and the like. The method can conveniently and selectively prepare the materials of planes, abnormal-shape surfaces and multiple sizes, has simple and convenient operation and small environmental pollution. The material has excellent mechanical performance, good high-temperature stability and heat insulation performance, and has wide application prospect in the fields of civilian industries, space flight and aviation industries, military industries and the like.

The invention provides nitrogen mixed grapheme hydrogel of which the water content is 90 to 99.5 percent, the electric conductivity is 10-3-100 S/m, and the molar ratio of N and C is 1 to 25 percent. The invention further provides nitrogen mixed aerogel of which the molar ratio of N and C is 2 to 20 percent, the molar ratio of C and O is 15 to 5, nitrogen atoms existing in the form of amidogen nitrogen accounts for 40 to 70 percent, pyridine type nitrogen accounts for 10 to 40 percent, graphite type nitrogen accounts for 10 to 30 percent, the specific area is 300 to 1500 m<2>/g, the apertures which are micropore account for 10 to 20 percent, the apertures which are mesoporous 20 to 50 percent, the apertures which are macropore 30 to 70 percent, the apparent density is 0.01 to 0.2 g/cm<3>, the pore volume is 5 to 20 cm<3>/g, and the electric conductivity is 1 to 1000 S/m. The nitrogen mixed grapheme hydrogel or aerogel and preparation method thereof provided by the invention has the characteristics that the operation is simple, the equipment requirement is low, the production efficiency is high, the scale-up of the technology is easy, the nitrogen mixed content is controllable and the compounding with other functional substances is simple.

The invention discloses a composite natural polymer gel material with a cross-linking agent. The material comprises hydrogel, organogel, aerogel and bioplastics and mainly overcomes the problem of low mechanical strength of conventional natural polymer gel materials. According to the invention, a certain amount of the cross-linking agent is added into a natural polymer water-based solution or dispersion liquid, then stirring is carried out, the obtained mixture is placed in a non-solvent for physical cross-linking, and then washing is carried out so as to obtain composite natural polymer hydrogel; water in the composite natural polymer hydrogel is replaced with an organic solution so as to prepare composite natural polymer organogel; the composite natural polymer hydrogel or organogel is dried so as to prepare composite natural polymer aerogel; the composite natural polymer aerogel is subjected to hydrophobic treatment so as to obtain hydrophobic aerogel; the composite natural polymer aerogel is subjected to heat treatment so as to obtain carbon aerogel; and one or more selected from the above-mentioned gel materials are subjected to high-temperature pressing so as to prepare composite natural polymer bioplastics. The composite natural polymer gel material prepared in the invention has the advantages of excellent mechanical properties, a high specific surface area, high elongation at break, etc., and can be easily processed into molded products of a plurality of forms.

An improved vapor phase deposition method for preparation of single walled carbon nanotubes on an aerogel supported metal catalyst. The total yield of SWCNTs often is at least about 100%, based the weight of the catalyst, for a reaction time of at least about 30 minutes.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a silica aerogel aqueous heat-insulating coating, and is characterized in that: prepared SiO2 microspheres are hydrophobic inside and hydrophilic outside; and the aerogel microspheres can be added into an aqueous coating carrier to prepare a good heat-insulating material. The main preparation method comprises the following steps of: before drying the prepared wet gel microspheres, performing surface modification by using an organic silane or an organic chlorosilane, so that the prepared wet gel microspheres are hydrophobic by grafting a large number of alkoxy groups or alkyl groups on the surfaces thereof, or directly preparing the hydrophobic wet gel microspheres; performing surface modification on the microspheres by using a hydrophilic silane coupling agent, and drying to obtain the SiO2 microspheres which are hydrophobic inside and hydrophilic outside; and adding the prepared microspheres into an aqueous coating for preparing the aqueous heat-insulating coating.

This invention provides bioreactors having a selectively permeable porous material with an open pore structure, useful for producing products including hydrogen gas, biomass, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The porous materials are utilized, for example, as one or more portions of or entire walls, covers, floors, filters, windows, or tubes of the bioreactors. This invention provides bioreactors comprising porous materials that are aerogels, xerogels, or sol-gel glasses, including silica aerogels. The selectively permeable porous materials are gas-permeable, and in addition optionally photopermeable, transparent, hydrophobic, and/or capable of functioning as sterile barriers. This invention provides methods for culturing cells and organisms employing the bioreactors of the invention. This invention further provides methods for producing gaseous products, including hydrogen, biomass, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals employing the bioreactors of the invention.

The invention discloses a nanometer multiple-layer composite thermal insulation material and a preparation method thereof. The nanometer multiple-layer thermal insulation composite material is formed by alternatively overlapping an infrared reflecting screen and a spacer; the ratio of total layer amounts n of the infrared reflecting screens and the spacers to the total thickness of the nanometer multiple-layer composite thermal insulation material is 0.5-4; the infrared reflecting screen is a metal foil or a metal plated foil; the spacer is a thermostability nanometer porous aerogel composite thermal insulation material; the infrared reflecting screen and the spacer are combined by being adhered with thermostability adhesives or in puncturing connection by thermostability sewing threads. The invention also comprises the preparation method of the nanometer multiple-layer composite thermal insulation material. The nanometer multiple-layer composite thermal insulation material of the invention has low density, favorable mechanical property and favorable high-temperature thermal insulation property, lowers requirements on the vacuum degree by a VIP plate when being used as vacuum thermal insulation plate core materials, does not need getter and can satisfy harsh high-efficiency thermal insulation using requirements on materials by aviation, aerospace and civil fields. The method of the invention can prepare thermal insulation material members with large size and complex shape.

Composites, such as syntactic foams, are described. The composite contains at least one polymer and at least one aerogel. The aerogel is coated with a coating substance to at least substantially prevent the intrusion of the polymer into the pores of the aerogel. Methods of making the composite are also described, as well as uses of the composite.

The invention belongs to the technical field of nanoporous material, namely carbon aerogel, and particularly relates to graphene oxide-crosslinked polyimide-based carbon aerogel and a preparation method thereof. The invention carbon aerogel is prepared by crosslinking polyamide acid aerogel by graphene oxide, and comprises the components of graphene oxide and one or more water-soluble polyimide precursor-polyamide acids. The preparation method comprises the following steps: mixing an aqueous graphene oxide solution with the water-soluble polyimide precursor-polyamide acid, and preparing graphene oxide/polyamide acid aerogel through sol-gel and freeze-drying processes; preparing the graphene/polyimide-based carbon aerogel through thermal imidization and high temperature carbonization. According to the preparation method, a toxic reagent formaldehyde is not used; the prepared carbon aerogel has a mesoporous, microporous and macroporous three-level three-dimensional network porous structure, high specific surface area, high conductivity and stable physical and chemical properties, and is an ideal electrode material for preparing a supercapacitor and other new energy devices and a high-performance adsorbent material.

The invention provides a novel silica aerogel material which is diaphanous, adiabatic, heat-retaining and noise-proof and a preparation method of the silica aerogel material. The silica aerogel material has the advantages of being high in tenacity strength, high in transparency, flawless, light in mass, low in density, especially big in block and the like. The silica aerogel material besides can be used in the field of energy saving buildings such as glass curtain walls, doors and windows which are heat-retaining, adiabatic and noise-proof, can be further used in the fields such as aerospace, petroleum and petrochemical, new energy resources, ships and refrigeration, and has good application prospect.

Ceramic oxide aerogels having improved flexibility are disclosed. Preferred embodiments exhibit high modulus and other strength properties despite their improved flexibility. The gels may be polymer cross-linked via organic polymer chains to further improve strength properties, without substantially detracting from the improved flexibility. Methods of making such aerogels are also disclosed.