Super Material Airloy , The Strongest Gel!

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The most versatile material in the world may be here, and it's going to change everything. Aerogels have been around for a while, but new innovations have made the technology even better and more useful. An aerogel is a low-density solid created through the extraction of liquid from the gel using the process of supercritical drying. Most commonly, aerogels are made of silica, yet this material makes the super-light solid incredibly brittle. After years of research, scientists from NASA and other independent companies have created a new product, airloy.

Airloys are a new class of advanced engineering materials that combine the strength of conventional plastics with the low density and superinsulating properties of aerogels.  Airloys are strong, stiff, and tough and are among the world’s best thermal and acoustic insulators.  Like classic aerogels, airloys exhibit ultra high internal surface area and can be electrically insulating or conductive.


     strength test of airloy image by airloy

Airloys are typically three to ten times lighter than conventional plastics and ceramics and are available in densities ranging from 0.01 to 0.9 g/cc.  Airloys are not restricted in composition to any one particular substance and can be made from ceramics, polymers, carbon, metals, carbides, and combinations thereof.

    image by aerogel technologies llc        

Airloys are engineered at the sub-micron level to deliver unprecedented performance for lightweight structures, multifunctional superinsulation, oil spill reclamation, batteries, supercapacitors and ultracapacitors, sensors, and catalyst supports.

    image of aerogel airloy by airloy

Combining the strength and durability of conventional plastics with the lightweight, super-insulating properties seen in aerogels is what this product does so well. Part of what makes this material so promising is its ability to be engineered for the extremes. Airloys are ultra low density, .01 to .9 g/c², which makes them the lightest solids on earth. Accompanying these low densities are super-insulative properties and extreme material strength. Certain polymer based airloys can be engineered to handle an excess of 20,000 times their own weight.

For more information visit https://interestingengineering.com/airloy-the-new-super-material#:~:text=An%20aerogel%20is%20a%20low,super%2Dlight%20solid%20incredibly%20brittle

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