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Where can I buy Aerogel?

Where can I buy Aerogel?

Where can I buy Aerogel?

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OK I guess I'm half joking, or maybe only 25% joking...but has Aerogel gotten to the point where it's anywhere near reasonable as an industrial insulator yet?  Does anyone sell it?  

RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?

by surfing aerogel.com you can find a number of suppliers who work with the material.  You may also find ridiculously overpriced samples of it on Ebay.

RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?

Aspen, I think, tried to sell it to me for marine exhaust insulation a couple of years ago.  The small sample I got demonstrated that it's flexible enough to conform to compound curved surfaces, and that it drops a fair amount of very fine ceramic dust when you handle it.  

The dust made it a non-starter for me; engines don't like dust, and there's no way to encapsulate the aerogel that will reliably withstand exhaust heat.

The other non-starter; they never came back with a price for a sheet of the stuff; they just kept dancing around the issue.  Too bad for them; yacht owners will pay big bucks for high tech.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?

I've met guys who wouldn't blink at that price.

 .. and I just figured out how to encapsulate the stuff, but not in a way that would allow them to show it off.  Sigh.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?

There are various places you can get it in different forms.

Aspen Aerogels, Cabot Corp, Polyformes, Nanopore are just a few places.

You can get samples for free (a test tube full of particles) from Cabot Corp, Spaceloft blankets from Polyformes for a few dollars per square foot or foil encapsulated blankets.

The Spaceloft blanket does leave a fine dust that dries up oils but in foli encapsulated form it does not.

It depends on the insulating performance you require.  Hope this helped.

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