A new phenomenon of compressive strain recovery in gelatin-silica aerogel composites with SDS

• Main Authors: Sachithanadam, Mahesh, Joshi, Sunil Chandrakanth
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Mechanics and dynamics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105901; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20929
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Silica aerogels are nano-structured, highly porous solids with extremely low density but fragile and brittleness. To enhance the applicability of aeorgels, gelatin-silica aerogel (GSA) composite blocks were produced by mixing the hydrophobic aerogel-granules in a gelatin-SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate)...