Empa researchers have now succeeded in combining all these advantages in a single material. And their cellulose-based, 3D-printable aerogel can do even more. The miracle material was created under the ...

And their cellulose-based, 3D-printable aerogel can do even more. The miracle material was created under the leadership of Deeptanshu Sivaraman, Wim Malfait and Shanyu Zhao from Empa's Building ...

For their research, the EMPA team created an aerogel that uses nanofibres of cellulose harvested from wood and suitable for a wide range of chemical alterations. Such cellulose-based aerogels have ...

developed from wood cellulose. (Image: Jonas Garemark/Wallenberg Wood Science Center, KTH Royal Institute of Technology) “Biobased strong aerogels could be used to replace current fossil-based ...