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first aerogels were
produced from
silica gels. Kistler's
later work
involved aerogels based on alumina, chromia, and tin dioxide.
Carbon aerogels were...
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methods have been
applied in the
preparation of
aerogels in non-silica systems. NASA has
developed silica aerogels with a
polymer coating to
reinforce the structure...
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shape (e.g., to
obtain monolithic ceramics, gl****es, fibers, membranes,
aerogels), or used to
synthesize powders (e.g., microspheres, nanospheres). The...
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first bio-
aerogels were made in the
early 2000s. Budtova's
flagship work to date has been
based around the
development of
aerogels which can be manufactured...
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nitride aerogel. Song, Yangxi; Li, Bin; Yang, Siwei; Ding, Guqiao; Zhang, Changrui; Xie,
Xiaoming (2015). "Ultralight
boron nitride aerogels via template-****isted...
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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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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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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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ultralight aerogel with a
density less than air, the
lightest recorded so far
reaching a
density approximately 1/6th that of air.
Aerogels don't float...
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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...
