Gas-to-nanotextile: high-performance materials from floating 1D nanoparticles
Isabel Gómez‐Palos, Miguel Vazquez‐Pufleau, Richard S. Schäufele, Anastasiia Mikhalchan, Afshin Pendashteh, Álvaro Ridruejo, Juan J. Vilatela
Abstract
atoms per second) up to 1000 times faster than for substrate CVD. We summarise emerging descriptions of the formation of aerogels through percolation theory and multi-scale models for the collision and aggregation of 1D nanoparticles. The paper shows that macroscopic ensembles of 1D nanoparticles resemble textiles in their porous network structure, high flexibility and damage-tolerance. Their bulk properties depend strongly on inter-particle properties and are dominated by alignment and volume fraction. Selected examples of nanotextiles that surpass granular and monolithic materials include structural fibres with polymer-like toughness, transparent conductors, and slurry-free composite electrodes for energy storage.