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«We think comets are made of interstellar grains, perhaps formed around millions of stars in the Milky Way,» Brownlee says as he handles a piece of aerogel.

Aerogel and Wild 2 should meet each other this January.

Brownlee says this chunk of almost - nothing is called aerogel and that a piece of it the size of a person would weigh less than a pound.

The precious payload — comet flecks embedded in aerogel and protected by a heat - resistant casing — will parachute to the desert floor in Utah.

«Comet grains enter our atmosphere day and night, less altered than the ones we'll get from the aerogel,» Zolensky says.

Aerogel was first created by chemist Samuel Kistler in the 1930s and offered by the Monsanto Company for paints, cosmetics, and toothpaste.

The aerogel will snare the particles, and two years later Stardust will return to Earth.

Tsou worked with scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California to make the aerogel even lighter to improve its particle - catching ability.

When Stardust flashes past, dust shed from the comet will strike the aerogel at a speed some six times that of a rifle bullet.

Earlier, in 2000 and 2002, the craft positioned aerogel collectors on the opposite side of the arm to snare particles of interstellar dust, suspected to be as small as one - tenth the size of comet grains.

When Stardust approaches Wild 2 in a few months, the spacecraft will raise a tray of ice - cube - size chunks of aerogel on an arm shaped like a tennis racket.

After years of testing — aerogel flew to the space station Mir and in the open cargo bay of the space shuttle — Tsou was ready to propose the Stardust mission.

Much larger cubes of aerogel are 205 million miles from Earth, flying aboard a remarkable NASA spacecraft called Stardust.

Contributing to this global effort, the NUS team has successfully pioneered the development of aerogels using cotton fibres harvested from textile waste.

While aerogels were first created in the 1930s, this advanced material has not been widely adopted by industries due to its high production cost.

«Each cotton aerogel pellet can expand to 16 times its size in 4.5 seconds — larger and more than three times faster than existing cellulose - based sponges — while retaining their structural integrity.

A research team led by Associate Professor Hai Minh Duong (left) and Professor Nhan Phan - Thien from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has devised a fast, cheap and green method to convert fashion waste into highly compressible and ultralight cotton aerogels.

While we have demonstrated novel application of the cotton aerogels for effective haemorrhage control and heat insulation, we will continue to explore new functions for this advanced material,» said Assoc Prof Duong.

The samples in Elsila's study came from four squares of aluminium foil, each about 1 centimetre across, that sat next to a lightweight sponge - like «aerogel» that was designed to capture dust from the comet's atmosphere, or coma.

«The heat insulation property of the novel cotton aerogels can be applied to various consumer products, such as cooler bags to keep food items fresh.

To address these limitations, NUS researchers developed highly compressible hybrid cotton aerogel pellets which are more effective than cellulose - based sponges for treatment of deep haemorrhagic wounds.

The thermal jacket, which weighs about 200 grams, consists of a cotton aerogel layer embedded within commonly used fabrics to provide heat insulation.

A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has successfully devised a fast, cheap and green method to convert cotton - based fabric waste, such as unwanted clothing, into highly compressible and ultralight cotton aerogels.

«This new eco-friendly cotton aerogel is a major improvement from the aerogel that our team had previously developed using paper waste.

Led by Associate Professor Hai Minh Duong and Professor Nhan Phan - Thien from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NUS Faculty of Engineering, the research team discovered that the novel cotton aerogels can be easily compressed, and they can also very quickly recover up to 97 per cent of their original size when placed in water.

The unique morphology of the cotton aerogels allows for a larger absorption capacity, while the compressible nature enables the material to expand faster to exert pressure on the wound,» added Assoc Prof Duong.

The NUS team has also developed a more eco-friendly process to convert paper waste into aerogels.

Dunlop and Head, two major racket manufacturers, are also touting the use of aerogel — the incredibly low - density solid that NASA used to collect comet particles as part of its Stardust mission — in their latest models.

Coated with Trimethoxy - methylsilane (MTMS), the aerogels are water repellent and are capable of absorbing oil (excluding water) up to 90 times their dry weight, making them up to four times more effective than commercial oil sorbents.

A research team from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has achieved a world's first by successfully converting paper waste into green cellulose aerogels that are non-toxic, ultralight, flexible, extremely strong and water repellent.

Bronxculture intends to manufacture the cellulose aerogels and further expand its applications in three areas, namely, insulating materials for packaging boxes, insulating layer for winter garment and oil absorption materials.

In addition, compressed cellulose aerogels can be used to plug life - threatening wounds such as a gunshot or stabbing lesion by injecting them into the wound cavity.

Elaborating on the potential application of the cellulose aerogels, Asst Prof Duong said, «Oil spills are serious disasters that threaten marine ecosystems.

«As a heat insulation material, our novel cellulose aerogels offer a few added advantages.

This is done by infusing the fibres of the cellulose aerogels with a solution of metallic nanoparticles.

Another important application of the novel cellulose aerogels is to serve as insulation materials for buildings.

The NUS team has also discovered a way of expanding the weight capacity of the cellulose aerogels.

In addition to low thermal conductivity, these novel aerogels have several unique features, one of which is super high oil absorption capacity — it is up to four times higher than commercial sorbents available in the market.

«Aerogels, which are among the lightest solid materials known to man, are one of the finest insulation materials available.

The novel cellulose aerogels developed by the NUS team could also signal a change in the packing industry.

With high surface area and high porosity, the biodegradable aerogels could also be used as coating materials in drug delivery or as smart materials.

Traditional aerogels are mainly made of silica, which is not environmentally - friendly.

Stardust's cache was sanitized by intense heat as comet particles collided at 14,000 miles per hour with foamy aerogel in the probe's dust collector.

MTMS - uncoated cellulose aerogels are hydrophilic, thus they can also absorb and retain huge volumes of polar fluids such as water and alcohol.

A plant stem inspired researchers to develop a new, versatile aerogel for possible use in bendable devices.

Our novel cellulose aerogels therefore serve as an attractive alternative to current methods of oil spill cleaning, which has a potential market size of US$ 143.5 billion.»

Aerogels are good candidates for such applications, but until now, it's been difficult to make them with both properties.

Aerogels are light, porous materials that are already used in many applications, such as pollution control and insulation.