Development of silica aerogel with any density
@article{Tabata2005DevelopmentOS, title={Development of silica aerogel with any density}, author={Makoto Tabata and Ichiro Adachi and T. Fukushima and H. Kawai and H. Kishimoto and A. Kuratani and H. Nakayama and Shohei Nishida and T. Noguchi and Koji Kamiya Okudaira and Yukimichi Tajima and H. Yano and Hiroshi Yokogawa and Hiroshi Y. Yoshida}, journal={IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2005}, year={2005}, volume={2}, pages={816-818} }
New production methods of silica aerogel with high and low refractive indices have been developed. A very slow shrinkage of alcogel at room temperature has made possible producing aerogel with high refractive indices of up to 1.265 without cracks. Even higher refractive indices than 1.08, the transmission length of the aerogel obtained from this technique has been measured to be about 10 to 20 mm at 400 nm wave length. A mold made of alcogel which endures shrinkage in the supercritical drying…
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