Abstract
Ambient pressure drying of polymethylsilsesquioxane gels via dynamic shrinkage-reexpansion has been investigated for preparation of aerogel-like xerogels and their application to thermal superinsulators. An extended aging of wet gels in aqueous solution containing precursor-derived species is found to be crucial in obtaining crack-free, monolithic xerogels with sufficiently low thermal conductivity (13.7mWm−1K−1) at bulk density of 0.140gcm−3 (porosity ~90%).
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