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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Debra R. Rolison, Arlington, VA (US);
Catherine A. Morris, Springfield, VA (US);
Michelle L. Anderson, Alexandria, VA (US);
Karen E. Swider Lyons, Arlington, VA (US);
Celia I. Merzbacher, Alexandria, VA (US);
Joseph V. Ryan, Aurora, OH (US);
Veronica M. Cepak, Longmont, CO (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A composite gel or aerogel is formed by commingling a particulate guest (such as a colloidal or dispersed (i.e., non-colloidal) solid or a powder) with a sol which is either about to gel or in which gelation has just started. After addition of the particulate, the mixture is then permitted to gel into a solid, gelled composite with open pores. This solid, gelled composite is then dried in a manner that prevents the collapse of open pores within the solid, gelled composite in which the gel acts as a “nanoglue” that holds the particles together.