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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Meteoroid embedded in aerogel; the meteoroid is 10 μm in diameter and its track is 1.5 mm long...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Between the flame and the flower is aerogel, whose synthesis has been aided greatly by physical chemistry....
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  • products sensitive to moisture. List of desiccants: Activated alumina Aerogel Benzophenone (as anion) Bentonite clay Calcium chloride Calcium oxide Calcium...
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    Agriculture and Applied Science. 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    to bind to the nucleic acids under the presence of chaotropes. Silica aerogel was used in the Stardust spacecraft to collect extraterrestrial particles...
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    colloidal suspensions, colloidal foams, colloidal dispersions, or hydrosols. Aerogel Jello cubes Colloidal silica gel with light opalescence Whipped cream A...
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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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  • the study of "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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    motorsport company Prodrive. The Cien's monocoque chassis and body are made of aerogel composite and equipped with active aero. Its design was inspired by the...
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    gold-decorated graphene were each successfully integrated with the substrate. An aerogel made of graphene layers separated by carbon nanotubes was measured at 0...
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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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    an unclassified codename. Fogbank's composition is classified, though aerogel has been suggested as a possibility. It was first used in thermonuclear...
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    carbon aerogel with 2–50 nm pores, providing high surface area and room for the battery electrolyte to diffuse. The researchers pyrolized the aerogel to 1...
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    some dry cleaners for this reason. It is used in the preparation of some aerogels because of the properties of supercritical carbon dioxide. In medicine...
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    this interstage material, which may be code-named Fogbank, might be an aerogel, possibly doped with beryllium and/or other substances. The interstage...
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