Back in Action for the Spring Semester
Greetings aerogel enthusiasts and a warm 2010 to you all. It’s been a busy couple months but we’re back in action with some new articles on how to make silica aerogel with TMOS (the procedure described in Episode 5 of the podcast), how to make carbon aerogels, how aerogels can be made without supercritical drying (subcritical drying), how to make subcritically-dried silica aerogels yourself, and an exciting podcast line-up, including:
- Prof. Nicholas Leventis on flexible, strong x-aerogels and new metal aerogels
- How to Make Silica Aerogel, Part 2: Supercritical Drying (at last!)
- Dr. George Gould from Aspen Aerogels on commercialization of aerogel insulation blankets
- Dr. John Reynolds from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on remediating toxic waste with aerogels
- Dr. Bryce Tappan from Los Alamos National Laboratory on combustion synthesis of nanoporous metal foams and explosive cryogels
- How to Build a Supercritical Dryer (Yes, You Can Too!)
- Prof. C. Jeffrey Brinker of Sandia National Laboratory and University of New Mexico, father of modern sol-gel chemistry
- Subcritical Drying of Silica Aerogel
- The elusive Dr. Debra Rolison of the “Department of Nanoarchitecture” at the Naval Research Laboratory on nanoarchitecture and aerogels for energy storage
Lots of good stuff coming up! Get involved.
One more thing–we’re going to be translating Aerogel.org into other languages this year, starting with Spanish and Arabic. Anyone with technical ability in either language who’s interested in helping, please leave a comment!