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Aspen Aerogels, Inc. (NYSE:ASPN) shares are trading higher after the company won a conditional commitment for a proposed DOE loan worth up to $670.6 million. This loan, part of the Advanced ...
Silica aerogels may be used for sound insulation, such as on windows or for construction purposes. [112] [113] It has been suggested that Fogbank, a material of secret composition used in U.S. thermonuclear warheads, may be an aerogel. [114] Aerogels are used in Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) and X-ray laser targets. [115]
A vacuum insulated panel (VIP) is a form of thermal insulation consisting of a gas-tight enclosure surrounding a rigid core, from which the air has been evacuated. It is used in building construction, refrigeration units, and insulated shipping containers to provide better insulation performance than conventional insulation materials. [1] [2]
Aerographene or graphene aerogel is the least dense solid known to exist, at 160 g/m 3 (0.0100 lb/cu ft; 0.16 mg/cm 3; 4.3 oz/cu yd). [1] The material reportedly can be produced at the scale of cubic meters.
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In 1939, the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships made Owens-Corning insulation standard in new warship construction. Warship insulation, called Navy Board, was a permanent form-board insulation covered with woven continuous fiber cloth. Owens-Corning produced a prototype boat hull constructed of fiber glass-reinforced plastic in 1944. [11]
Either way, in 1931 Kistler published a paper in Nature (vol. 127, p. 741) titled "Coherent Expanded Aerogels and Jellies". He left his teaching post at the University of Illinois in 1935 and signed a contract with Monsanto Company in the early 1940s to start developing granular silica aerogel products under the trademark Santocel. Largely used ...
Rockwool was the world's largest maker of insulation materials in 2009, [6] but had fallen to the second largest by 2016. [7] As of 2009, 90% of the company's revenue came from the sale of insulation products, while 80% came from sales in Europe. [6]