Sentences with phrase «make aerogels»
They also sped up the time to make the aerogels, which makes them more viable for large - scale production.
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Tsou worked with scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California to make the aerogel even lighter to improve its particle - catching ability.
The researchers made an aerogel (a low - density solid) out of nanotubes, and found that in was as strong as steel.
Walls are insulated with aerogel (expensive but thin) and the pop - out is built with a steel frame, making the aerogel completely useless because of thermal breaks.
Not exact matches
«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.
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.
Traditional aerogels are mainly made of silica, which is not environmentally - friendly.
Aerogels are good candidates for such applications, but until now, it's been difficult to make them with both properties.
Now, researchers report in ACS Nano that mimicking the structure of the «powdery alligator - flag» plant has enabled them to make a graphene - based aerogel that meets these needs.
One day, Union College's Aerogel Team's novel way of making «frozen smoke» could improve some of our favorite machines, including cars.
«Making frozen smoke: Commercializing aerogel fabrication process.»
A time and money - saver, it could appeal to industries already using aerogel made in other ways.
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 Stardust spacecraft used giant tiles made out of aerogel and aluminium foil to collect the dust samples.
Still, in the past decade, cleantech companies such as SunPower, First Solar, EnerNOC and Comverge, and more recently, Tesla, SolarCity, Silver Spring Networks, Enphase, Aspen Aerogels, and Control4 have made it onto public exchanges.