title: Architectural design, interior decoration, and three-dimensional plumbing en route to multifunctional nanoarchitectures.
abstract: Ultraporous aperiodic solids, such as aerogels and ambigels, are sol-gel-derived equivalents of architectures. The walls are defined by the nanoscopic, covalently bonded solid network of the gel. The vast open, interconnected space characteristic of a building is represented by the three-dimensionally continuous nanoscopic pore network. We discuss how an architectural construct serves as a powerful metaphor that guides the chemist in the design of aerogel-like nanoarchitectures and in their physical and chemical transformation into multifunctional objects that yield high performance for rate-critical applications.
authors.affiliation: Surface Chemistry Branch, Code 6170, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Long