Silica Aerogels
Links
- Stardust
- Stardust is a new NASA probe that will use silica aerogel to capture cometary and interstellar dust and return samples to Earth.
- Airglass
- One of the original aerogel production facilities is now online.
- Nanopore
- Commercial source for nanoporopus solids.
- Cabot Corporation
- Cabot will soon offer commercial quantities of granular, ambient-pressure dried aerogels.
- A Los Alamos Aerogel page
- With many links of interest for aerogels in high energy physics.
- Aerogel Research at the University of Virginia
- A nice site with plenty of information.
- Jeff Brinker's Research Group at the University of New Mexico
- Dr. Brinker's group works on a wide variety of sol-gel processes, including aerogels
- MarkeTech International
- A source for small amounts of various aerogel materials
- TASSI: Aerogel Technologies
- Developing applications for various oxide aerogels.
- University of Wisconsin — Zero-G Aerogel Formation
- An interesting student project on the effects of gravity on gel formation.
