Aerogel: Wim Malfait demonstrates with his hand how water-repellent a coating with aerogel can be. Image: Empa
Aerogel: Wim Malfait demonstrates with his hand how water-repellent a coating with aerogel can be. Image: Empa - Belgian-born Wim Malfait is a trained geologist who once searched for gold on behalf of a mining company. Today, he heads the Building Energy Materials and Components laboratory, which develops, among other things, super-lightweight aerogel insulation materials and materials with heat exchange capabilities. Saving energy as a social task - that is more important to him than gold. As a teenager, Wim Malfait liked to collect stones on vacation and take them with him as a memento. Volcanic stone in particular fascinated the young Wim Malfait. Even then, he found the material side interesting.
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