aerogel

[LeeG]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3364419.stm
anyone else want to toss in their $.02 for where aerogel is used?

[Del Lansing]

To help keep Pamela Anderson aloft ?

[LeeG]

http://www.glacierbay.com/insulation_ultra_r.asp

[Ron Williamson]

A few years ago they were talking about using it for window glass,if the price came down.
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[LeeG]

I saw a reference to it being used in expedition clothing. When it was first showing up in science publications there was some mention of very high capacitors but haven't seen anything lately.

[Dan McCosh]

Somebody is using it for insulation in marine refrigerators.

[John Gearing]

Aerogel has some applications, though I was not privvy to any (that I recall) during my days in defense aerospace engineering. However, a close associate of mine, when she left her job with our corp r & d lab, was given, as a going away present,a little plastic box containing some aerogel. I presume that if our r & d folks had it around we were either using in a design or else investigating uses for it.