The resulting aerogel blanket was flexible rather than brittle, which solved the handling problem.
Aerogel turns out to have the highest relative ability of clothing to provide warmth, known as a Clo value.
Sodium montmorillonite can be freeze-dried into a spongelike material known as an aerogel.
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Aspen's aerogel blankets are bulky and can't be sewn into apparel easily, but the company saw promise in the clothing market.
And the thing caught in a tennis racket sort of made out of aerogel, this really wispy, smoky sort of solid, right?
In 2001 Aspen Aerogels--a Northborough, Massachusetts spinoff of Aspen Systems--figured out how to use aerogel blankets instead of fiberglass as insulation in undersea oil pipelines.
In 2001 Aspen Aerogels--a Northborough, Mass. spinoff of Aspen Systems--figured out how to use aerogel blankets instead of fiberglass as insulation in undersea oil pipelines.
Filling the pores in the aerogel with plastic should remove its fragility and, conversely, the network of clay molecules in the aerogel will stop the plastic cracking.
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In 1931 American chemical engineer Samuel Kistler invented the lightest known solid--an aerogel--by drying a form of silicon dioxide (a raw material for glass) under intense pressure and high temperature.
What's left is a glassy-looking sponge of silica--an aerogel.
That's basically what we're doing except we're using aerogel.
Added to that eye-widening pub fact is that the heat insulation applied liberally to the engine bay and underside is a substance called 'Aerogel' - a compound formulated by NASA to insulate the Mars Rover.
Built to withstand the habitually harsh environment of the Red Planet, Aerogel is also so chronically hydrophobic that the car should see service well after you and I have turned to dust and interesting memoirs.
In January the two companies unveiled an aerogel fabric called Zeroloft, so named because it can trap a person's warmth without being puffed up to produce loft (as a goose down jacket must be).
"Nanotechnology didn't exist yet as a field, so people just didn't understand what they had at the time and what aspects of aerogel made it so special, " says Stephen Steiner, founder of Aerogel Technologies, which makes aerogel materials.
The collector basically looks like a tennis racket filled with ice cubes, so this is kind of like a big ice-cube tray, and each ice cube is not made out of ice, but it's made out of this aerogel.
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