Where can I buy Aerogel?
Where can I buy Aerogel?
(OP)
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?
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RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?
RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?
http://www.unitednuclear.com/aerogel.htm but they don't supply unitary pieces, though.
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RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?
RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?
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?
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RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?
.. 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?
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?
http://adzoe.8m.com/Aerogelsa.htm
I found that and other sites here:
http://p25ext.lanl.gov/~hubert/aerogel/
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Where can I buy Aerogel?
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.