{"id":4324,"date":"2019-09-01T21:51:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T19:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2019-09-01T22:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T20:53:55","slug":"foaming-of-recyclable-clays-into-low-cost-thermal-insulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2019\/09\/foaming-of-recyclable-clays-into-low-cost-thermal-insulators.html","title":{"rendered":"Foaming of Recyclable Clays into Low-Cost Thermal Insulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/clay-insulation-material.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/clay-insulation-material.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thermal insulators are crucial to reduce the high energy demands and greenhouse emissions in the construction sector. However, the fabrication of insulating materials that are cost-effective, fire resistant, and environmental-friendly remains a major challenge. In this work, we present a room-temperature processing route to fabricate porous insulators using foams made from recyclable clays that can be locally resourced at very low costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: Minas, Clara, et al. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acssuschemeng.9b03617#\">Foaming of Recyclable Clays into Energy-Efficient Low-Cost Thermal Insulators<\/a>.&#8221; ACS Sustainable Chemistry &amp; Engineering (2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thermal insulators are crucial to reduce the high energy demands and greenhouse emissions in the construction sector. However, the fabrication of insulating materials that are cost-effective, fire resistant, and environmental-friendly remains a major challenge. In this work, we present a room-temperature processing route to fabricate porous insulators using foams made from recyclable clays that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[117],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4328,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/4328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}