Manufacturing and characterization of aerogel-polymer cores for composites

• Main Author: Yap, Brendan Pin Wei.
• Other Authors: Sunil Chandrakant Joshi
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Composite materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16140
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The unique structure of aerogels has enabled it to be one of the lightest material known to the mankind. Comprising of nearly 99% volume of air, it has one of the lowest density of all known materials. Although light, aerogels has a very high strength to weight ratio. Aerogels also have excellent...