Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method for producing a sheet including a silica aerogel, the method including (S1) gelling a water glass solution in a mixture of an alcohol and water to prepare a wet gel, (S2) hydrophobically modifying the surface of the wet gel with a non-polar organic solvent, an organosilane compound and an alcohol, (S3) dissolving the hydrophobically modified silica gel and a polymer in an aprotic organic solvent to prepare an electrospinning solution, and (S4) electrospinning the electrospinning solution to produce a fiber web including a silica aerogel, and a sheet in which a polymer and a silica aerogel coexist in the form of a fiber.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a rapid preparation process of aerogel. More specifically, the present invention relates to a rapid preparation process of aerogel which enables a considerable reduction in preparation time and preparation costs via simultaneous treatment of solvent exchange and surface-modification of hydrophilic-to-hydrophobic transition.The rapid preparation process comprises mixing a cation exchange resin with sodium silicate (water glass) as a starting material, and removing the sodium ion from the sodium silicate, to subject the sodium silicate to ion exchange; adding a base catalyst and an organosilane compound to the sodium silicate to subject the sodium silicate to gelation; aging the gellized silica gel at room temperature for 2 to 4 hours to discharge water from the silica gel and to modify the surface of the silica gel into hydrophobicity; and drying the hydrophobic silica gel at atmospheric pressure for 18 to 27 hours.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a mat containing aerogel and to a mat manufactured using this method. A method of manufacturing a mat containing silica aerogel according to an aspect of the invention includes: (S1) producing a wet gel by mixing water glass and alcohol in a reactor; (S2) modifying a surface of the wet gel by adding an organic silane compound and an organic solvent to the reactor and mixing; (S3) separating a upper liquid from a solution in the reactor and impregnating a fibrous matrix with the upper liquid; and (S4) drying the fibrous matrix impregnated with the upper liquid. According to an aspect of the invention, a mat containing silica aerogel can be manufactured using only water glass as raw material, even when applying the drying process in an ambient environment, without using expensive materials or supercritical apparatus.