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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

High-frequency terahertz waves have great potential for a number of applications including next-generation medical imaging and communication. Researchers have shown that the transmission of terahertz ...

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 ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy. Aerogels renowned for their ultralow density, high porosity, tunable architecture, and exceptional ...

Recently, a research group led by Prof. 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 aerogel, ...

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 ...

In 2004, a NASA spacecraft called Stardust captured the first ever samples from a comet, named Comet Wild 2. It returned these samples to Earth in January 2006 – and new analysis of the samples is ...

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 ...