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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Research Letters in Materials Science Volume 2007, Article ID 73724, 4 pages doi:10.1155/2007/73724 Research Letter Ultralight-Weight Cellulose Aerogels from NBnMO-Stabilized Lyocell Dopes Falk Liebner,1 Antje Potthast,1 Thomas Rosenau,1 Emmerich Haimer,2 and Martin Wendland2 1 Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria 2 Institute of Chemical and Energy Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Muthgasse 107, 1190 Vienna, Austria Correspondence should be addressed to Thomas Rosenau, thomas.rosenau@boku.ac.at Received 6 August 2007; Accepted 5 October 2007 Recommended by H. Habazaki Cellulose aerogels are intriguing new materials produced by supercritical drying of regenerated cellulose obtained by solvent ex- change of solid Lyocell moldings. From N -methylmorpholine-N -oxide solutions with cellulose contents between 1 and 12%, dimensionally stable cellulose bodies are produced, in which the solution structure of the cellulose is largely preserved and trans- ferred into the solid state. The specific density and surface of the obtained aerogels range from 0.05 to 0.26 g/cm3 and from 172 to 284 m2 /g, respectively, depending on the cellulose content of the Lyocell dopes and regeneration procedure. A reliable extraction and drying procedure using supercritical carbon dioxide, the advantageous use of NBnMO as stabilizer for the Lyocell dopes, and selected physical properties of the materials is communicated. Copyright © 2007 Falk Liebner et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the or