Sentences with phrase «called aerogel»

He has also worked with a new material called Aerogel, a sponge - like insulating substance developed for use in the aerospace industry.

Led by Yuehe Lin, professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the researchers used inexpensive metal to make a super low density material, called an aerogel, to reduce the amount of precious metals required for fuel cell reactions.

The spacecraft will fly into the comet's tail and catch particles in a gel called aerogel, which is mounted on the panels of the spacecraft.

A ring image Cerenkov counter analyzes the spray of light given off by particles as they crash through a porous material called an aerogel; that light reveals the particles» speed before their final collision into the energy - measuring electromagnetic calorimeter — a lead brick laced with optical fibers.

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.

Not exact matches

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

Aerogels, which are sometimes also called liquid smoke, are solid materials that are about 92 percent air.

I found this company called Airtight Distribution sells Aspen Aerogel products, the same product NASA uses.