Thursday, 30 August 2012

Aerogel or Frozen Smoke or Blue Smoke

Aerogel is highly porous solids, where up to 99.98% of the volume is made of pores. There are different types of aerogel, silicate by far the most common. Other materials, for example plastics – or carbon-based are used in special cases. Basically any metal, polymer and other materials can be used as a base. The name blue smoke is due to typical color of Aerogel which most commonly seen. Aerogel is Open Source material.

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