Cobalt talc doped with iron (Fe/Co~0.1) and dispersed in SiO2 aerogel was prepared from silica alcogel impregnated with metal nitrates by supercritical drying. Catalytic honeycombs were prepared following the same procedure, with the alcogel synthesized directly over cordierite honeycomb pieces. The composite aerogel catalyst was characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy,...

:mCl Quum INSrnCrnD3 Abstract We have successfully integrated a thermally insulating silica aerogel thin film into a new uncooled monolithic thin film infrared (E) imaging device. Compared to other technologies (bulk ceramic and microbridge), use of an aerogel layer provides superior thermal isolation of the pyroelectric imaging element from the relatively massive heat sinking integrated circui...

Introduction: The Stardust mission brought to earth samples from the comet 81P/ Wild 2. The cometary material is believed to be the most primitive material in the solar system and the return of the samples provides information about the prevailing conditions of the early solar system. The samples have been trapped in silica aerogel at 6.1km.s and the hypervelocity impacts have generated deceler...

Superhydrophobicity and self-cleaning require a combination of surface topography and low-energy surfaces, where mechanical damage of the topography or contamination with oils lead to loss of the nonwetting properties. We show that such vulnerability can be solved by superamphiphobic (i.e., both superhydrophobic and superoleophobic) surfactant-coated aerogel surfaces. Using silica aerogels as m...

Motivated by the recent prediction that uniaxially compressed aerogel can stabilize the anisotropic A phase over the isotropic B phase, we measure the pressure dependent superfluid fraction of (3)He entrained in 10% axially compressed, 98% porous aerogel. We observe that a broad region of the temperature-pressure phase diagram is occupied by the metastable A phase. The reappearance of the A pha...

The copper(II) complex of 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane [Cu(II)-cyclen] was covalently immobilized in mesoporous silica aerogel. This immobilization significantly alters the catalytic activity Cu(II)-cyclen when referenced to dissolved oxidation phenol by H2O2 aqueous solution. In order understand this phenomenon, functionalized aerogel characterized scanning electron microscopy (SEM), N2 poro...