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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2025

Waste-Free Closed-Loop-Recyclable and Thermally Superinsulating Polyimide Aerogels Utilizing Diels-Alder Chemistry.

Yufei Xiong, Chang-Lin Wang, Jadwiga Poniatowska, Kitty Nijmeijer, Nicholas Leventis, Željko Tomović

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Yufei XiongPolymer Performance Materials Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5600 MB, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5191-1480
Chang-Lin WangPolymer Performance Materials Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5600 MB, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9337-0825
Jadwiga PoniatowskaMembrane Materials and Processes Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5600 MB, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7847-654X
Kitty NijmeijerMembrane Materials and Processes Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5600 MB, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1431-2174
Nicholas LeventisAspen Aerogels, Inc., Northborough, MA, 01532, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7575-9498
Željko TomovićPolymer Performance Materials Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5600 MB, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7944-5728

Funding

China Scholarship Council 202206950062Dutch Research CouncilMinisterie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap 024.005.020Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organic aerogels are an advanced class of lightweight materials with ultralow thermal conductivity and high porosity, widely used in applications such as thermal insulation, energy storage, and aerospace engineering. Among them, polyimide aerogels stand out for their excellent thermal stability, mechanical strength, and chemical resistance. However, their permanently cross-linked networks make them non-recyclable, posing a significant sustainability challenge. Here, a novel closed-loop recycling approach for polyimide aerogels based on dynamic Diels-Alder chemistry is presented, utilizing an aerogel-sol-aerogel (ASA) process. Matrimid, a commercial polyimide, is post-functionalized with furfurylamine to form a furan-modified poly(amide-imide) (PAI-FU), which reacts with bismaleimide via a Diels-Alder reaction to create a thermally reversible cross-linked aerogel network. The resulting poly(amide-imide) aerogels (PAIAs) exhibit low bulk density (≈ 0.15 g cm

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aerogelsDiels‐Alder chemistrypolyimiderecyclingsustainabilitythermal insulation

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PMID40878380
PMCPMC12617025

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