Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41538712›Full record

ArticleACS nano2026

Transparent Insulators with a Tough Nanocellulose Skeleton Formed via Freeze-Drying.

Xinyi Hou, Junki Kotsuka, Wataru Sakuma, Tomoki Ito, Yuto Kaku, Yuri Kobayashi, Zhifang Sun, Shuji Fujisawa, Tsuguyuki Saito

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in ACS nano, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Xinyi HouDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.ORCID 0009-0006-8702-6853
Junki KotsukaDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.
Wataru SakumaDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.
Tomoki ItoDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.
Yuto KakuDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8887-7197
Yuri KobayashiDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.
Zhifang SunSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan 411105, PR China.ORCID 0000-0003-3247-9813
Shuji FujisawaDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5221-6781
Tsuguyuki SaitoDepartment of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1073-6663

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is important to decrease considerable heat loss in buildings and vehicles to establish a low-carbon society. Transparent insulators applicable to windows can effectively reduce such heat loss. Conventional options for transparent insulators are silica aerogels that provide both optical transparency and thermal insulation benefits. However, silica aerogels are prepared via an unscalable supercritical drying process and are mechanically brittle, which restricts their practical use. In this study, we developed transparent and thermally insulating "cryogels" comprising mechanically strong cellulose nanofibers (CNFs). The term cryogels refers to porous structures prepared via practical freeze-drying of wet gels. In the synthesis, the agglomeration of nanofibers in a wet CNF gel during the freezing step was suppressed by rapidly freezing

Indexed as

aerogelcellulose nanofiberscryogelfreeze-dryingtransparent insulators

Identifiers

PMID41538712
PMCPMC12875015

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC-ND
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.