Aerogels Handbook

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aegerter, Michel A. (Editor), Leventis, Nicholas (Editor), Koebel, Matthias M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Sol-Gel Derived Materials and Technologies
• Subjects: Materials science.; Inorganic chemistry.; Polymers.; Continuum mechanics.; Nanotechnology.; Materials Science.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.; Inorganic Chemistry.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Polymer Sciences.

Aerogels are the lightest solids known. Up to 1000 times lighter than glass and with a density as low as only four times that of air, they show very high thermal, electrical and acoustic insulation values and hold many entries in Guinness World Records. Originally based on silica, R&D efforts ha...