Progress on the structures and functions of aerogels

Jiegou Huaxue

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 487-497

  Mu, Ruo Jun ^a   Pang, Jie ^a,b   Yuan, Yi ^a   Tan, Xiao Dan ^a   Wang, Min ^a   Chen, Han ^a   Chiang, Wei Yin ^b  

^a FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Aerogel; Electrospinning; Environmental protection; Insulation; Konjac glucomannan; Optical; Polysaccharide; Silicon dioxide; Ultralight nanofiber material

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963547352     PISSN: 02545861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-1098     Document Type: Article

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