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The surface-hydration, dehydration and dehydroxylation and their dependence on the electrical properties of the silica aerogel have been investigated using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. In equilibrium with the atmosphere, the aerogel exhibits strong sorption of water from the environment, but was found to be mainly due to physisorption. The mobile species responsible for electrical conduction was traced out as protons and the proton conduction was highly augmented by the presence of adsorbed water. An S-shaped dependence of conductivity with relative humidity was observed, with largest increase between 58% (8.412 Â 10 À7 and 7.658 Â 10 À7 S/cm for aerogel samples calcined at 250 and 400 °C, respectively) and 81% relative humidity (3.924 Â 10 À3 and 2.68 Â 10 À3 S/cm for identical samples calcined at 250 and 400 °C, respectively). The mechanism of water sorption was found to obey Dubinin-Serpinsky theory. The in situ impedance measurements of the aerogel samples indicated that, the gel precalcined at 250 °C and saturated at 97% relative humidity, could retain the physisorbed water up to 100 °C, compared to 80 °C for the same precalcined at 400 °C under identical conditions

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Author

Aji A Anappara; S Rajeshkumar; P Mukundan; P.R.S Warrier; Swapankumar Ghosh; K.G.K Warrier

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1359-6454)

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)