Abstract
Ceramic aerogels are considered as promising thermal insulation materials used in extreme environments. However, the combination of ultralight, high heat tolerance and ultra-low high-temperature thermal conductivity is still a great challenge for both brittle granular aerogels and micron-porous fibrous aerogels. Here, a dual-template strategy is proposed for the simple fabrication of high-performance nanoporous ceramic aerogels (SARAs) by adopting one-dimensional high-crystallinity and high-aspect-ratio Al2O3 nanorods as the basic unit. After delicate design of the composition and pore structures, SARAs exhibit excellent comprehensive properties including ultra-low density (8.12–28.43 mg cm−3), low room temperature thermal conductivity (down to 0.0246 W m−1 K−1) and extremely high temperature resistance (up to 1400 °C). In addition, the unique nanoporous structure lapped by nanorods also confer SARAs superior high-temperatures thermal insulation performance (0.0949 W m−1 K−1 at 1000 °C). The successful preparation of nanorod aerogels with fascinating properties not only provides a new vision on the pore structure regulation of aerogels for thermal insulation, but also offers an opportunity to develop new ultralight functional ceramic aerogels.
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