Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedicatioin
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Chemical Synthesis of Aerogels from Monomeric Precursors
- 3 Chemical Synthesis of Aerogels from Polymeric Precursors
- 4 Gelation
- 5 Drying of Wet Gels
- 6 Morphology of Aerogels
- 7 Density: Models and Measures
- 8 Specific Surface Area
- 9 Pores and Pore Sizes
- 10 Diffusion in Aerogels
- 11 Permeability for Gases
- 12 Thermal Properties
- 13 Mechanical Properties of Aerogels
- 14 How to Cook Aerogels: Recipes and Procedures
- Appendix A Thermodynamics and Phase Separation in Immiscibles
- Appendix B Flory–Huggins Theory of Polymer Solutions
- Appendix C A Brief Review on Scattering
- Appendix D Mathematics of Polycondensation
- Appendix E Time-Dependent Heat Transfer through an Isolated Tube
- References
- Index
7 - Density: Models and Measures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedicatioin
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Chemical Synthesis of Aerogels from Monomeric Precursors
- 3 Chemical Synthesis of Aerogels from Polymeric Precursors
- 4 Gelation
- 5 Drying of Wet Gels
- 6 Morphology of Aerogels
- 7 Density: Models and Measures
- 8 Specific Surface Area
- 9 Pores and Pore Sizes
- 10 Diffusion in Aerogels
- 11 Permeability for Gases
- 12 Thermal Properties
- 13 Mechanical Properties of Aerogels
- 14 How to Cook Aerogels: Recipes and Procedures
- Appendix A Thermodynamics and Phase Separation in Immiscibles
- Appendix B Flory–Huggins Theory of Polymer Solutions
- Appendix C A Brief Review on Scattering
- Appendix D Mathematics of Polycondensation
- Appendix E Time-Dependent Heat Transfer through an Isolated Tube
- References
- Index
Summary
The seemingly simplest property of any material and aerogels especially is the density, defined as the ratio of mass and volume. For any regularly shaped body such as a cube, sphere or cylinder, the volume is readily determined and the mass obtained by simply weighing the body. For a porous material, especially if the shape is not regular, the density is not that easy to determine. For aerogels, two different values are usually determined: the so-called envelope densityandthe skeletal density. The envelope density is defined as the massdivided by the total volume enclosing the porous structure. The skeletal density instead is the density of the solid backbone of the aerogel, i.e., the sum of the volume of all nanoparticles making up the aerogel. The chapter discusses techniques to measure both densities and all aspects of these techniques and closes with a section discussing how to estimate the final aerogel density from the known composition of the monomeric precursor solution or in the case of biopolymers that of a polymeric solution.
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- The Chemistry and Physics of AerogelsSynthesis, Processing, and Properties, pp. 214 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021