University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have recently demonstrated a novel method for chemically modifying and enhancing silica-based aerogels without sacrificing ...

Regrowing bones is no easy task, but the world’s lightest solid might make it easier to achieve. Researchers have figured out a way to use hybrid aerogels, strong but ultralight materials, to prompt ...

A new collection of chemically diverse dome-celled ultralight aerogels with high porosity and very low density feature elasticity and mechanical properties that remain intact even under extreme ...

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 of ...

The road to the world's warmest, thinnest outdoor gear has been a long one. In 1931 American chemical engineer Samuel Kistler invented the lightest known solid--an aerogel--by drying a form of silicon ...

A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed advanced aerogel composites that integrate high-temperature insulation with mechanical ...

A team of researchers set out to design a cheaper material with properties similar to a graphene aerogel--in terms of its conductivity, as well as a lightweight, anticorrosive, porous structure. The ...

Chinese scientists have developed the world's lightest substance - carbon aerogel - with a density only one sixth of that of the air. Aerogel is a material produced with semi-solid gel dried and ...

Earth is about 71 percent water. An overwhelming 97 percent of that water is found in the oceans, leaving us with only 3 percent in the form of freshwater—and much of that is frozen in the form of ...

Cellulose may have been around for millions of years, but that doesn’t mean it can’t teach a modern substance like aerogels a thing or two. A group of researchers have found a way to use cellulose to ...

Aerogel turns out to have the highest relative ability of clothing to provide warmth, known as a Clo value. The road to the world's warmest, thinnest outdoor gear has been a long one. In 1931 American ...