High nano insulation materials

Research is also ongoing to develop new high-performance thermal insulation materials, for example, nano insulation materials (NIM) [31,69,70,103-114] that utilize the Knudsen effect to achieve their low thermal conductivity without applying a vacuum in the pores. One possible pathway toward NlMs is to... 

Jin CL, Shen LQ, Dong MJ (2008) Nano-modified additives high-strength wall insulation material and its preparation method. China Patent 200810062791.5. 

The last five years have witnessed a tremendous effort to better produce, characterise and study insulating oxide surfaces. Several reasons stem for the rapid development of this field. They are related to experimental considerations — a better control of the fabrication of surfaces, a more thorough use of advanced spectroscopic or structural tools — but also to a more accurate recognition of the technological importance of high quality oxide surfaces in catalysis, magnetic recording, as sensors or as constituents of artificial nano-materials. 

More recently, the upsurge of nanosized materials has encouraged researchers to devote efforts to the formation of several composites in which carbon nanostructures [184, 185] and metal NPs [173,186] are mixed with zeolite. Similar composites combine the electrocatalytic properties of the nanomaterials with the selectivity imparted by the inorganic structure or, more simply, with the enormous enlargement of the surface due to zeolite material, also suitable to fix nano-objects. In this case, the high conductivity of the nanostructured component overcomes the problem of the insulating nature of the zeolite component. 

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