Springer Handbook of Aerogels

Inorganic, organic, and composite aerogels are the lightest solids known to man, with extraordinary thermal, electrical, and acoustic insulation properties. This handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the current state-of-the-art in these materials, from synthesis and characterization to cutting-edge applications and their potential market impact. It is essential reading for graduate students, academic researchers, and industry professionals.

Format: Hardback
Length: 1763 pages
Publication date: 05 September 2023
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive handbook offers in-depth coverage of the latest advancements in inorganic, organic, and composite aerogels, encompassing their synthesis, characterization, and cutting-edge applications. Building upon Springer's renowned Aerogels Handbook, published in 2011, this edition has undergone extensive revisions and timely updates to reflect the dynamic changes in this rapidly evolving field.

Aerogels, renowned for their exceptional lightness, possess a remarkable combination of properties. They are up to 1000 times lighter than glass and have a density only four times that of air, resulting in extraordinary thermal, electrical, and acoustic insulation capabilities. These remarkable materials have earned numerous entries in the Guinness World Records. Initially derived from silica, ongoing research and development efforts have expanded the scope of aerogels to include non-silicate inorganic oxides, natural and synthetic organic polymers, carbon, metal, and ceramic materials.

Composite systems, combining polymer-crosslinked aerogels and interpenetrating hybrid networks, have been developed, showcasing remarkable mechanical strength and flexibility. Even more exotic aerogels, such as those based on clays, chalcogenides, phosphides, quantum dots, and biopolymers like chitosan, are opening up new avenues for applications in the construction, transportation, energy, defense, healthcare, electronics, chemistry, mechanics, engineering, energy production and storage, sensors, medicine, nanotechnology, military and aerospace, oil and gas recovery, thermal insulation, and household uses.

This fully updated and expanded edition serves as an exhaustive resource for all aerogel materials currently known, providing detailed information on their fabrication, upscaling aspects, physical and chemical properties, and the most recent developments toward applications and commercialization. It serves as a valuable reference for researchers, scientists, engineers, and industry professionals seeking to explore the vast potential of aerogels in various fields.

Dimension: 279 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030273217
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023