A scalable crosslinked fiberglass-aerogel thermal insulation composite

An, Lu; Wang, Jieyu; Petit, Donald; Armstrong, Jason N.; Li, Changning; Hu, Yong; Huang, Yulong; Shao, Zefan; Ren, Shenqiang

doi:10.1016/j.apmt.2020.100843

A scalable crosslinked fiberglass-aerogel thermal insulation composite

Journal Article · Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Applied Materials Today

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2020.100843· OSTI ID:1673166

An, Lu ^[1]; Wang, Jieyu ^[2]; Petit, Donald ^[2]; Armstrong, Jason N. ^[2]; Li, Changning ^[2]; Hu, Yong ^[2]; Huang, Yulong ^[2]; Shao, Zefan ^[2]; Ren, Shenqiang ^[2]

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, NY (United States); SUNY University at Buffalo
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, NY (United States)

Ceramic aerogels are attractive for thermal insulation due to its lightweight and low thermal conductivity, while it is indispensable to address the obstacle of its brittleness nature and large-scale manufacturing for building efficiency applications. The economical manufacturing of large-scale elastic thermal insulation aerogels has remained challenging. Herein, we report a universal manufacturing of the fiberglass reinforced aerogel composites where the architectured three-dimensional fiber networks with the cross-linked silica aerogel exhibit superinsulation and mechanical elasticity. These remarkable performances are obtained through in-situ cross-linking reaction between molecular assembly induced aerogel and fiberglass under ambient pressure drying environment, in which the interfacial interactions are verified from its infrared spectra. The resulting ultralight aerogel composite sheet exhibits a density of 0.1 g cm^-3, large strain recovery (>50%), and low thermal conductivity (0.0253 W m^–1 K^–1). Here, the thermal insulation aerogel composites shed light on the super-elastic aerogel manufacturing with scalability for energy saving building applications.

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Research Organization:: University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0008675

OSTI ID:: 1673166

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1781183
OSTI ID: 1903555

Journal Information:: Applied Materials Today, Journal Name: Applied Materials Today Vol. 21; ISSN 2352-9407

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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