Traditional silica aerogels suffer from inherent brittleness and insufficient mechanical properties, which severely restrict their large-scale applications in high-end thermal insulation and flame retardancy. Aiming at low-cost industrialization, we employ cost-effective sodium silicate as the silicon source and hexame...
The inherent brittleness of silica aerogels severely limits their practical application in thermal protection. To address this issue, polymethylsilsesquioxane (PMSQ) wet gels were fabricated via an aqueous sol–gel method, and polyimide (PI) was introduced through in situ polymerization to construct an inorganic–organic...
Zi-Qi Zhu, Jun-Yong Chen, De-Fang Pan et al.· Gels· 0 citations
Aqueous flexible energy storage is regarded as a highly promising safe technical route for next-generation wearable electronic devices. The central theme of this review is sodium-alginate-based hydrogel electrolytes for aqueous flexible energy storage. Among various application scenarios for such electrolytes, zinc-bas...