Aerogel from Sustainably Grown Bacterial Cellulose Pellicles as a Thermally Insulative Film for Building Envelopes

Fleury, Blaise; Abraham, Eldho; De La Cruz, Joshua A.; Chandrasekar, Varun S.; Senyuk, Bohdan; Liu, Qingkun; Cherpak, Vladyslav; Park, Sungoh; ten Hove, Jan Bart; Smalyukh, Ivan I.

doi:10.1021/acsami.0c08879

Aerogel from Sustainably Grown Bacterial Cellulose Pellicles as a Thermally Insulative Film for Building Envelopes

Journal Article · Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c08879· OSTI ID:1830801

^[1]; Abraham, Eldho ^[2]; De La Cruz, Joshua A. ^[2]; Chandrasekar, Varun S. ^[2]; Senyuk, Bohdan ^[2]; Liu, Qingkun ^[2]; Cherpak, Vladyslav ^[2]; Park, Sungoh ^[2]; ten Hove, Jan Bart ^[2]; ^[3]

Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); University of Colorado Boulder
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Boulder, CO (United States). Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute

Improving building energy performance requires the development of new highly insulative materials. An affordable retrofitting solution comprising a thin film could improve the resistance to heat flow in both residential and commercial buildings and reduce overall energy consumption. Here, we propose cellulose aerogel films formed from pellicles produced by the bacteria Gluconacetobacter hansenii as insulation materials. We studied the impact of the density and nanostructure on the aerogels’ thermal properties. A thermal conductivity as low as 13 mW/(K·m) was measured for native pellicle-based aerogels that were dried as-is with minimal post-treatment. The use of waste from the beer brewing industry as a solution to grow the pellicle maintained the cellulose yield obtained with standard Hestrin-Schramm media, making our product more affordable and sustainable. In the future, our work can be extended through further diversification of food wastes as the substrate sources, facilitating higher potential production and larger applications.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)

Grant/Contract Number:: AR0000743

OSTI ID:: 1830801

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1799064

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Journal Name: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Journal Issue: 30 Vol. 12; ISSN 1944-8244

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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