Xia Zhou

Bioinspired silicification of flame-retardant, thermally insulating, and robust bacterial cellulose composite aerogels.

Cellulose aerogels are promising thermal-insulation materials, but their mechanical weakness, flammability, and poor thermal stability restrict practical applications. Here, a bioinspired silicification strategy was developed to construct a bridged polysiloxane network (BPN) in situ within a bacterial cellulose (BC) fr...