“Stiff-Soft” Binary Synergistic Aerogels with Superflexibility and High Thermal Insulation Performance

Transparent, Superflexible Doubly Cross-Linked Polyvinylpolymethylsiloxane Aerogel Superinsulators via Ambient Pressure Drying

(2018) Guoqing Zu et al.   ACS Nano

A Thermally Insulating Textile Inspired by Polar Bear Hair

(2018) Ying Cui et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Superflexible Multifunctional Polyvinylpolydimethylsiloxane-Based Aerogels as Efficient Absorbents, Thermal Superinsulators, and Strain Sensors

(2018) Guoqing Zu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Fire-Retardant and Thermally Insulating Phenolic-Silica Aerogels

(2018) Zhi-Long Yu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Flexible transparent aerogels as window retrofitting films and optical elements with tunable birefringence

(2018) Qingkun Liu et al.   Nano Energy

Joule-heated graphene-wrapped sponge enables fast clean-up of viscous crude-oil spill

(2017) Jin Ge et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Use of regenerated cellulose to direct hetero-assembly of nanoparticles with carbon nanotubes for producing flexible battery anodes

(2017) Yanhua Cheng et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

A dual-mode textile for human body radiative heating and cooling

(2017) Po-Chun Hsu et al.   Science Advances

Synthetic nacre by predesigned matrix-directed mineralization

(2016) L.-B. Mao et al.   SCIENCE

Radiative human body cooling by nanoporous polyethylene textile

(2016) Po-Chun Hsu et al.   SCIENCE

Steam generation under one sun enabled by a floating structure with thermal concentration

(2016) George Ni et al.   Nature Energy

Multiscale Assembly of Superinsulating Silica Aerogels Within Silylated Nanocellulosic Scaffolds: Improved Mechanical Properties Promoted by Nanoscale Chemical Compatibilization

(2015) Shanyu Zhao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Strong, Thermally Superinsulating Biopolymer-Silica Aerogel Hybrids by Cogelation of Silicic Acid with Pectin

(2015) Shanyu Zhao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Advances of thermal conductivity models of nanoscale silica aerogel insulation material

(2015) Ya-Ling He et al.   APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING

In-operando high-speed tomography of lithium-ion batteries during thermal runaway

(2015) Donal P. Finegan et al.   Nature Communications

Polymethylsilsesquioxane–Cellulose Nanofiber Biocomposite Aerogels with High Thermal Insulation, Bendability, and Superhydrophobicity

(2014) Gen Hayase et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Full Control and Manipulation of Heat Signatures: Cloaking, Camouflage and Thermal Metamaterials

(2014) Tiancheng Han et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bioinspired Materials: from Low to High Dimensional Structure

(2014) Ning Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bioinspired Engineering of Thermal Materials

(2014) Peng Tao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Covalent Hypercoordination: Can Carbon Bind Five Methyl Ligands?

(2014) William C. McKee et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ultralightweight and Flexible Silylated Nanocellulose Sponges for the Selective Removal of Oil from Water

(2014) Zheng Zhang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Personal Thermal Management by Metallic Nanowire-Coated Textile

(2014) Po-Chun Hsu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Bioinspired structural materials

(2014) Ulrike G. K. Wegst et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Ultralight nanofibre-assembled cellular aerogels with superelasticity and multifunctionality

(2014) Yang Si et al.   Nature Communications

Polyacrylic Acid Assisted Assembly of Oxide Particles and Carbon Nanotubes for High-Performance Flexible Battery Anodes

(2014) Yanhua Cheng et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

The thermal conductivity of polymethylsilsesquioxane aerogels and xerogels with varied pore sizes for practical application as thermal superinsulators

(2014) G. Hayase et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Flexible aerogels based on an interpenetrating network of bacterial cellulose and silica by a non-supercritical drying process

(2013) Huazheng Sai et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Cellulose-Silica Nanocomposite Aerogels by In Situ Formation of Silica in Cellulose Gel

(2012) Jie Cai et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Stomatopod Dactyl Club: A Formidable Damage-Tolerant Biological Hammer

(2012) J. C. Weaver et al.   SCIENCE

Tailoring Mechanical Properties of Aerogels for Aerospace Applications

(2011) Jason P. Randall et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Self-Healing Fibre Reinforced Composites via a Bioinspired Vasculature

(2011) Christopher J. Norris et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Traditional, state-of-the-art and future thermal building insulation materials and solutions – Properties, requirements and possibilities

(2011) Bjørn Petter Jelle   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS

Tablet-level origin of toughening in abalone shells and translation to synthetic composite materials

(2011) Horacio D. Espinosa et al.   Nature Communications

Controlled pore formation in organotrialkoxysilane-derived hybrids: from aerogels to hierarchically porous monoliths

(2010) Kazuyoshi Kanamori et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Making flexible magnetic aerogels and stiff magnetic nanopaper using cellulose nanofibrils as templates

(2010) R. T. Olsson et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Flexible Nanofiber-Reinforced Aerogel (Xerogel) Synthesis, Manufacture, and Characterization

(2009) Lichun Li et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A small diameter elastic blood vessel wall prepared under pulsatile conditions from polyglycolic acid mesh and smooth muscle cells differentiated from adipose-derived stem cells

(2009) Chen Wang et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Reinforcing polymer cross-linked aerogels with carbon nanofibers

(2008) Mary Ann B. Meador et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

The true toughness of human cortical bone measured with realistically short cracks

(2008) K. J. Koester et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

MATERIALS SCIENCE: Bioinspired Structural Materials

(2008) C. Ortiz et al.   SCIENCE

A review on buildings energy consumption information

(2007) Luis Pérez-Lombard et al.   ENERGY AND BUILDINGS