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Colorless Transparent Melamine–Formaldehyde Aerogels for Thermal Insulation
journal contribution
posted on 2020-01-10, 22:47 authored by Yuki Nakanishi, Yosuke Hara, Wataru Sakuma, Tsuguyuki Saito, Kazuki Nakanishi, Kazuyoshi KanamoriAerogels have many
unique properties such as low density and low
thermal conductivity, and, in particular, transparent silica aerogels
are attractive for thermal insulating windows. Practical applications
of silica aerogels, however, have been limited because of their low
mechanical strength, and it is still challenging to synthesize transparent
and mechanically strong aerogels. Here, we report colorless transparent
melamine–formaldehyde (MF) aerogels prepared via a nonaqueous
synthetic strategy. The obtained transparent MF aerogel with a density
of 0.18 g cm–3 shows significantly higher mechanical
strength and a lower thermal conductivity of ca. 13 mW m–1 K–1 compared to conventional silica aerogels with
similar density.