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Title: Methods for controlling pore morphology in aerogels using electric fields and products thereof

Abstract

In one embodiment, an aerogel or xerogel includes column structures of a material having minor pores therein and major pores devoid of the material positioned between the column structures, where longitudinal axes of the major pores are substantially parallel to one another. In another embodiment, a method includes heating a sol including aerogel or xerogel precursor materials to cause gelation thereof to form an aerogel or xerogel and exposing the heated sol to an electric field, wherein the electric field causes orientation of a microstructure of the sol during gelation, which is retained by the aerogel or xerogel. In one approach, an aerogel has elongated pores extending between a material arranged in column structures having structural characteristics of being formed from a sol exposed to an electric field that causes orientation of a microstructure of the sol during gelation which is retained by the elongated pores of the aerogel.

Inventors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1414912
Patent Number(s):
9,852,824
Application Number:
13/180,440
Assignee:
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, CA)
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2011 Jul 11
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Worsley, Marcus A., Baumann, Theodore F., Satcher, Jr., Joe H., Olson, Tammy Y., Kuntz, Joshua D., and Rose, Klint A. Methods for controlling pore morphology in aerogels using electric fields and products thereof. United States: N. p., 2017. Web.
Worsley, Marcus A., Baumann, Theodore F., Satcher, Jr., Joe H., Olson, Tammy Y., Kuntz, Joshua D., & Rose, Klint A. Methods for controlling pore morphology in aerogels using electric fields and products thereof. United States.
Worsley, Marcus A., Baumann, Theodore F., Satcher, Jr., Joe H., Olson, Tammy Y., Kuntz, Joshua D., and Rose, Klint A. 2017. "Methods for controlling pore morphology in aerogels using electric fields and products thereof". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1414912.
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abstractNote = {In one embodiment, an aerogel or xerogel includes column structures of a material having minor pores therein and major pores devoid of the material positioned between the column structures, where longitudinal axes of the major pores are substantially parallel to one another. In another embodiment, a method includes heating a sol including aerogel or xerogel precursor materials to cause gelation thereof to form an aerogel or xerogel and exposing the heated sol to an electric field, wherein the electric field causes orientation of a microstructure of the sol during gelation, which is retained by the aerogel or xerogel. In one approach, an aerogel has elongated pores extending between a material arranged in column structures having structural characteristics of being formed from a sol exposed to an electric field that causes orientation of a microstructure of the sol during gelation which is retained by the elongated pores of the aerogel.},
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