BARC/PUB/2013/1044

 
 

Synthesis and physico-chemical properties of organic aerogels

 
     
 
Author(s)

Kavale, M. S.; Parale, V. G.; Rao, A. V.; Wagh, P. B.; Gupta, S. C.
(APD)

Source

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2013. Vol. 1536: pp. 867-868

ABSTRACT

Basically, an organic aerogel is any aerogel with a framework consists of organic polymers. The organic aerogels are fabricated by the sol-gel polymerization of resorcinol with formaldehyde, followed by exchanging with acetone, and then with liquid CO2 and drying under CO2 supercritical conditions. The organic aerogels obtained by this process exhibits themselves as an insulators i.e. they possesses high resistance to the flow of current through them. These obtained aerogels when heated at elevated temperatures of about 1100°C they becomes conducting, demonstrates themselves a low resistance of the order of 4Ω.

 
 
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