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    definition aerogel: gel comprised of a microporous solid in which the dispersed phase is a gas. (See Gold Book entry for note.) Aerogels are a class...
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    Boron nitride aerogel is an aerogel made of highly porous boron nitride (BN). It typically consists of a mixture of deformed boron nitride nanotubes and...
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  • Lifting gas (section Aerogel)
    fills the pores of an aerogel's microstructure, so the apparent density of the aerogel is the sum of the densities of the aerogel material and the air...
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    calledHackaday reported on Braun extracting bismuth from pepto bismol, making aerogel, and making superconductors. In 2021, The A.V. Club and Newsweek reported...
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  • insulators known as aerogels can also be prepared using Stöber methods, and Stöber techniques have been applied to prepare non-silica aerogel systems. Applying...
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    samples themselves. Aerogel is a silica-based porous solid with a sponge-like structure, 99.8% of whose volume is empty space. Aerogel has about 1/1000 of...
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  • Aerographene (category Aerogels)
    Aerographene or graphene aerogel is the least dense solid known to exist, at 160 g/m3 (0.0100 lb/cu ft; 0.16 mg/cm3; 4.3 oz/cu yd). The material reportedly...
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    synthetic product. Examples include fused quartz, fumed silica, opal, and aerogels. It is used in structural materials, microelectronics, and as components...
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    Meteoroid embedded in aerogel; the meteoroid is 10 μm in diameter and its track is 1.5 mm long...
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    of Aerogels, the cost price of this material still remains at a high level. Only two companies in the United States offer the commercial Aerogel product...
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    carbon dioxide is used in the production of silica, carbon and metal based aerogels. For example, silicon dioxide gel is formed and then exposed to sCO 2....
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    manufactures Aerogel pipe sections, it is possible to wrap Aerogel blanket around pipework, allowing it to function as pipe insulation. The usage of Aerogel for...
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    are collected in ultra low density aerogel. The tennis racket-sized collector tray contained ninety blocks of aerogel, providing more than 1,000 square...
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  • Biofoam (section Aerogel)
    biofoams. Aerogels are also being engineered to mirror the internal foam structures of animal hairs (see Figure 3). These biomimetic aerogels are being...
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    chemically stable than a graphitic carbon structure. Boron nitride aerogel is an aerogel made of highly porous BN. It typically consists of a mixture of...
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    Conservation. ISBN 978-2-912743-00-8. Sabry, Fouad (2022-01-16). Aerogel: Want to Colonize Mars? Aerogel could help us farm and survive on Mars "in our lifetimes"...
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    Between the flame and the flower is aerogel, whose synthesis has been aided greatly by physical chemistry....
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  • study of an "Aerogel Core Fission Fragment Rocket Engine", where fissile fuel particles will be embedded in an ultra-low density aerogel matrix to achieve...
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  • that allows continuous production of aerogels under ambient conditions, which was the start of the company’s Aerogel business. In 2009, Cabot completed...
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  • solids with a density of less than 10 mg/cm3, including silica aerogels, carbon nanotube aerogels, aerographite, metallic foams, polymeric foams, and metallic...
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  • List of desiccants: Activated alumina Aerogel Benzophenone (as anion) Bentonite clay Calcium chloride Calcium hydride Calcium oxide Calcium sulfate (Drierite)...
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    potential for mass production include coatings, thin films, metafabrics, aerogels, and biodegradable surfaces. While typically white, other colors can also...
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  • American scientist and chemical engineer, best known as the inventor of aerogels, one of the lightest known solid materials. Kistler, the son of a shopkeeper...
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    the gel has been replaced with a gas. Aerogel electrodes are made via pyrolysis of resorcinol-formaldehyde aerogels and are more conductive than most activated...
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    crystals, solid biomolecular condensates Solid Solid foam Examples: aerogel, styrofoam, pumice Gel Examples: agar, gelatin, jelly, gel-like biomolecular...
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    polyethylene aerogels that reduce solar absorption and parasitic heat gain which may improve the emitter's performance by over 20%. Other aerogels also exhibited...
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    area is 4 inches of softwood (R-value 5.6) and 90% is 2 inches of silica aerogel (R-value 20), the area-weighted U-value is 0.1/5.6 + 0.9/20 ≈ 0.0629 and...
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    the original on 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2016-05-15. "Sto AG, Cabot Create Aerogel Insulation". Construction Digital. 15 November 2011. Archived from the...
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    medium Radial immunodiffusion – Laboratory technique SEAgel – Type of aerogel Tokoroten – Seaweed-based Japanese dish Shimamura, Natsu (August 4, 2010)...
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    Ion Beam Shepherd has been made, and other proposals use a foamy ball of aerogel or a spray of water, inflatable balloons, electrodynamic tethers, electroadhesion...
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