When solidified, aerogels make good insulation for a spacecraft or aircraft.
Jackets lined with aerogel can keep you warm in temperatures of 50 below zero.
- They discussed the possibility of using aerogels to insulate car doors.
- As part of her postdoctoral work in inorganic chemistry she began experimenting with aerogels.
- On board the space shuttle, aerogel collects samples of cosmic dust.
- In the 1980s, physics researchers learned that large tiles of silica aerogel could detect radiation.
