Graphene Aerogel is Modern and Promising Material

[摘要] Aerogels hold 15 titles in the Guinness World Records, i.e. more than any other material. Sometimes aerogels are called "frozen smoke" and derived from aluminum, chromium, tin oxide or carbon in the process of supercritical drying. The composition of aerogels is 99.8% air, which makes it translucent. Aerogels demonstrate properties that make them the most extraordinary insulating materials known. If you have a shield made of aerogels, it will protect you from fire, as well as it will save you from cold. Using this material an insulated and worm dome could be built on the Moon. Aerogels have an incredible surface area of internal fractal structures, i.e. an aerogels cube with an edge of one inch has an internal area equivalent to a football field. The article deals with the concept of aerogels, the most common aerogels, and fields of their application.

[发布机构] Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, Branch of the University in the City of Oktyabrsky, 54a, Devonskaya St., Oktyabrsky, Republic of Bashkortostan; 452607, Russia^1

[效力级别] 电工学

[关键词] Fractal structures;Graphene aerogels;Supercritical drying;Surface area;World records