Polyimide aerogels

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M.A.B. Meador, E. McMillon, A. Sandberg, E. Barrios, N.G. Wilmoth, C.H. Mueller, F.A. Miranda, Dielectric and other properties of polyimide aerogels containing fluorinated blocks, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 6 (9) (2014)6062-6068. 

Rhine W, Wang J, Begag R (2006) Polyimide aerogels, carbon aerogels, and metal carbide aerogels and methods of making same. US Pat No 7,074,880... 

Another focus was put on the melamine-formaldehyde system. Through a microemulsion templating sol-gel route [237], thermal conductivities of the samples slightly below 0.025 Wm K have been obtained [238]. Most recently, polyimide aerogels have been developed by NASA s Glenn Research... 

Meador, M.A.B., Malow, E.J., Silva, R. et al. (2012) Mechanically strong, flexible polyimide aerogels cross-linked with aromatic triamine. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 4 (2), 536-544. 

Scheme 3.9 Synthesis of polyimide block copolymer aerogels with TAB cross-links. Reproduced with permission from Ref. [139],...

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