Aerogel is still a relatively unfamiliar vocabulary for ordinary people, but international materials and scientific fields have a soft spot for it. This kind of "revolutionary new material" always brings surprises. . Aerogel is currently known as the world's lightest solid material with the best thermal insulation performance. It has the characteristics of ultra-lightweight, very low thermal conductivity, high thermal stability, high adsorption, high energy absorption, and sound insulation. , Petrochemical, metallurgy, pipeline, thermal equipment, construction, aerospace and military fields have very wide application value and potential.

Aerogel is also a very hot material in recent years! But as far as the market is concerned, it still has a long way to go. 2017 has passed, let's review some major events in the aerogel industry! Also take a look at the 2018 aerogel market forecast!

Aerogel, as the world's lightest solid, has been selected in the Guinness World Records. A new type of aerogel developed by NASA has a density of only 3 milligrams per cubic centimeter. It has been officially selected as "the lowest density solid in the world" in the Guinness World Records.

Luminescent hydrogels have attracted widespread interest due to their important applications in bioimaging, drug delivery, OLED, and fluorescence sensing. Compared with luminescent groups such as quantum dots and organic dyes, rare earth complexes are considered to be an ideal luminescence center due to their strong light absorption ability, long excited state lifetime, high color purity, rich emission lines, and high quantum efficiency.

Ultra-soft cell scaffolds can be printed with frozen hydrogel in 3D. January 12, 2018/Imperial College London recently developed a new technology, which can create flexible scaffolds that more accurately imitate human soft tissues. Researchers believe that this method can help the regeneration of soft tissue, and one day can cultivate neuron cells, which can then be used for the regeneration of brain and spinal cord.

Aerogels have many attractive properties but are usually costly and mechanically brittle, which always limit their practical applications. While many efforts have been made to reinforce the aerogels, most of the reinforcement efforts sacrifice the transparency or superinsulating properties. Here we report superflexible polyvinylpolymethylsiloxane, (CH2CH(Si(CH3)O2/2))n,aerogels that are facilely prepared from a single precursor vinylmethyldimethoxysilane or vinylmethyldiethoxysilane without organic cross-linkers.