Wang Zhenyang and Zhang Shudong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a ...

Aerogel is about as perfect a contradiction as you could imagine. It holds the record as the lightest solid ever created, yet is durable enough to support the weight of a car or survive the vacuum ...

Boston, Massachusetts--(Newsfile Corp. - March 13, 2025) - Owing to their exceptionally low thermal conductivity, low density, hydrophobicity, fire retardancy, and acoustic insulation, aerogels ...

Aerogel — that mixture of air and silica — is one of those materials that seems like a miracle. It is almost not there since the material is 99% air. [NileRed] wanted to make his own and he ...

The anisotropic PI/HAP/rGO aerogel developed in this work features vertically aligned channels, enabling superior adsorption efficiency (with an adsorption coefficient Ks 0.37 Kg m-1 s -1/2 for ...

WANG Zhenyang and ZHANG Shudong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a new type of ceramic fiber aerogels SiC@SiO₂, featuring highly ...