Thermally insulating and fire-retardant lightweight anisotropic foams based on nanocellulose and graphene oxide

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 277-283

  Wicklein, Bernd ^a   Kocjan, Andraž ^b   Salazar Alvarez, German ^a,c   Carosio, Federico ^d   Camino, Giovanni ^d   Antonietti, Markus ^e   Bergström, Lennart ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; ANISOTROPY; CASTING; CELLULOSE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FOSSIL FUELS; GRAPHENE; NANOCELLULOSE; NANORODS; POLYSTYRENES; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; THERMAL INSULATION; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

ANISOTROPIC FOAMS; CELLULOSE NANOFIBRES; COMBUSTION RESISTANCE; EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE; INSULATION MATERIALS; NANOSCALE ENGINEERING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; TAILORED MATERIALS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CELLULOSE; FLAME RETARDANT; FOSSIL FUEL; GRAPHENE OXIDE; MAGNESIUM TRISILICATE; NANOCELLULOSE; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOPARTICLE; NANOROD; POLYSTYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; FOAM; HUMIDITY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOENGINEERING; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUSPENSION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84924752564     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.248     Document Type: Article

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