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New Routes to Nanocomposite Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Arlon J. Hunt  and
Wanqing Cao
Arlon J. Hunt
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, California 94720
Wanqing Cao
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, California 94720
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Abstract

New composite materials were prepared by using aerogel as a matrix for gas phase decomposition. Various gases were infiltrated into the open pore aerogel structure which were subsequently decomposed thermally by the catalytic action of the aerogel. Composites of silica aerogel with carbon, silicon, iron, and iron oxides were prepared. The method is applicable to a wide range of new composite materials. Materials produced this way contain nanometer-sized deposits that can give rise to size induced quantum effects.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 346: Symposium N – Better Ceramics Through Chemistry VI , 1994 , 451
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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