Designing Oxide Aerogels With Enhanced Sorptive and Degradative Activity for Acute Chemical Threats

Oxide aerogels are pore–solid networks notable for their low density, large pore volume, and high surface area. This three-dimensional arrangement of pore and solid provides critical properties: the high surface area required to maximize the number of active sites and a through-connected porosity that plumbs reactants to the active interior. In decontamination applications where reactivity beyond adsorption is desired to degrade deleterious...