Aerogel from Matthias Koebel’s test production
Aerogel is the perfect material for many insulation purposes. It is heat-resistant up to 600 degrees, ultralight, non-toxic - and provides excellent thermal insulation. Only its complicated and expensive production causes quite a headache. An Empa start-up is about to revolutionize the manufacturing process. If successful, there will soon be affordable aerogel for everyone. Needless to say, NASA has already had it for a long time: aerogel, a kind of mineral foam that only weighs around 100 kilograms per cubic meter. Rocket makers soaked the light material in fuel to render rocket stages safer, and space researchers used the supermaterial to collect comet dust in space and brought it back to Earth.
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