aerogel

The aerogel fragments I've seen were cylindrical, and looked exactly like bits of hot glue sticks.

For example, one can stack sheets of carbon aerogel to achieve the same current density.

The aerogel is also ridiculously low-mass, so it seems to require no effort to hold or move around.

A partial vacuum will have to be created inside the aerographite structure without crushing the aerogel.

A thin layer of glass sufficiently hard to survive the blowing dust and then a layer of aerogel to retain heat but still pass most of the light.

I wonder if a modern materials would let us build lift cells in this vein - maybe thin-skinned vessels filled with aerogel for structural support.

If they could use a similar process to how aerogel is made, creating a foam structure of the zeolite, then surface area would be considerable.

Yes, except that aerogel is well-understood, both as to composition and behavior.

His argument has more holes in it than aerogel.> Most philosophical debates are not merely afflicted by but driven by confusions over words.

It's especially interesting to read about the aerogel method and techniques used to discount many of the particles captured.

Touching this particular aerogel was like touching a lighter, fluffier, finer grained version of styrofoam, almost like the cotton candy to styrofoam's unleavened bread.

Our state-of-art in residential shelter have major subsystems that are still largely recognizable to someone from a century and a half ago; where is the work on cheap aerogel SIPs, more self-maintaining homes, lower energy footprint communities?

In practice, getting a real blimp to work will probably be made out of a future version of aerographite or another aerogel that is super strong and light, one that could self support itself without collapsing in on itself if the air between the meshes of nanotubes is pumped out.