However, purely inorganic aerogels have a tendency to be a bit fragile and may collapse. Hybrid aerogels can provide the extra flexibility and stability required for real-world applications. Hybrid ...

The aerogel prepared in Gong's lab is made of cellulose nanofibrils (sustainable wood-based materials) and an environmentally friendly polymer. Furthermore, these cellulose-based aerogels are made ...

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 ...

In the journal Angewandte Chemie ("Ultralight, Flexible, and Fire-Resistant Carbon Nanofiber Aerogels from Bacterial Cellulose"), Chinese scientists have now introduced a simple technique for the ...

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have shown, in a study published in the journal Advanced Science, that the transmission of terahertz light through an aerogel made of cellulose and a ...

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 ...

A new study at the University of Helsinki suggests how to develop environmentally friendly polysaccharide-based ... based aerogels from two different polysaccharides: guar galactomannan and tamarind ...

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 ...