• Aerogel insulation for building applications: A state-of-the-art review 

      Baetens, Ruben; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Gustavsen, Arild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Aerogels are regarded as one of the most promising high performance thermal insulation materials for building applications today. With a thermal conductivity down to 13 mW/(mK) for commercial products they show remarkable ...
    • Air-Filled Nanopore Based High-Performance Thermal Insulation Materials 

      Gangåssæter, Haakon Fossen; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Alex Mofid, Sohrab; Gao, Tao (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      State-of-the-art thermal insulation solutions like vacuum insulation panels (VIP) and aerogels have low thermal conductivity, but their drawbacks may make them unable to be the thermal insulation solutions that will ...
    • Building Integration of Aerogel Glazings 

      Gao, Tao; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Gustavsen, Arild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The recent building practices have shown that aerogel glazings can be used as a multifunctional building envelope component for different purposes. Nevertheless, the distinctive physical properties and energy performance ...
    • Building Integration of Aerogel Glazings 

      Gao, Tao; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Gustavsen, Arild (Conference object; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The recent building practices have shown that aerogel glazings can be used as a multifunctional building envelope component for different purposes. Nevertheless, the distinctive physical properties and energy performance ...
    • Development and Investigation of New Materials and Technologies for Utilization in Zero Emission Buildings 

      Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Gao, Tao; Ng, Serina (Chapter, 2018)
      The demand for zero emission buildings (ZEB) and energy-producing buildings is increasing along with the growing focus on material resource abundance and scarcity, energy efficiency, renewable and non-polluting energy ...
    • Development of a New Thermally Insulating and Structural Green Concrete for Lean Constructions 

      Ng, Serina; Jelle, Bjørn Petter (Chapter, 2016)
      A new class of thermally insulating, structural concrete was designed and developed in-house. This was carried out by the fusion of current concrete/ mortar technology with aerogel granulates in an effort to produce a lean ...
    • Feasibility Study of Novel Integrated Aerogel Solutions 

      Sletnes, Malin; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Risholt, Birgit Dagrun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The market share for fibre reinforced aerogel insulation materials is expected to increase as production costs are lowered, and in this context, the development of layered products with integrated aerogel is highly ...
    • Utilization of Aerogel Materials and Systems in the Building Envelopes of Tomorrow 

      Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Gao, Tao (Chapter, 2019)
      Building envelopes incorporating aerogel materials may exploit miscellaneous properties of the aerogels such as a very low thermal conductivity, lightweight properties due the air-filled low-density aerogel structure, and ...
    • Vacuum Insulation Panels for Building Applications: A Review and Beyond 

      Baetens, Ruben; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Thue, Jan Vincent; Tenpierik, Martin J.; Grynning, Steinar; Uvsløkk, Sivert; Gustavsen, Arild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      Vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) are regarded as one of the most promising high performance thermal insulation solutions on the market today. Thermal performances three to six times better than still-air are achieved by ...