Fabrication of nanoporous aerogels via freeze substitution of nanowire suspensions

Fears, Tyler M.; Colvin, Jeffrey D.; Kucheyev, Sergei O.

Title: Fabrication of nanoporous aerogels via freeze substitution of nanowire suspensions

Abstract

A method of making a nanoporous aerogel includes the steps of providing nanowire suspensions, freeze casting the nanowire suspensions to produce freeze-cast gels, extracting the frozen medium from the freeze-cast gels by freeze-substitution with a solvent to produce wet gels, modifying or functionalizing the wet gels as needed, and drying the wet gels to produce a nanoporous aerogel.

Inventors:: Fears, Tyler M.; Colvin, Jeffrey D.; Kucheyev, Sergei O.

Issue Date:: 2019-08-27

Research Org.:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1576362

Patent Number(s):: 10391466

Application Number:: 15/612,702

Assignee:: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, CA)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B01 - PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY

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B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B01 - PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY
B01J13/0091 - {Preparation of aerogels, e.g. xerogels}

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DOE Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

Resource Type:: Patent

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2017 Jun 02

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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  title        = {Fabrication of nanoporous aerogels via freeze substitution of nanowire suspensions},

  author       = {Fears, Tyler M. and Colvin, Jeffrey D. and Kucheyev, Sergei O.},

  abstractNote = {A method of making a nanoporous aerogel includes the steps of providing nanowire suspensions, freeze casting the nanowire suspensions to produce freeze-cast gels, extracting the frozen medium from the freeze-cast gels by freeze-substitution with a solvent to produce wet gels, modifying or functionalizing the wet gels as needed, and drying the wet gels to produce a nanoporous aerogel.},

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