Hello Blucken and thank you for your question.
The TAASI Corporation has developed a range of engineered Aerogel
materials for commercial applications. They are a major manufacturer
of commercial Aerogel materials and technologies for wide-scale
applications in industrial, commercial, and consumer products markets
at a cost-effective price.
http://www.taasi.com/
?Aerogels are advanced materials with several useful functional
properties which enable highly diverse fields of potential
applications.?
These functional properties include: Adsorption, Catalysis,
Insulation, Absorption and Controlled Release.?
Adsorption and Catalysis
?TAASI has developed a line of products Pristina? Aerogel Adsorbents
and Catalysts", to remove pollutants/ contaminants, or recover
products from air or water media. Examples of potential end-use
applications include: catalysts/ catalyst supports for the process
industries & catalytic converters; scrubbing of flue gases from power
& industrial plants; emission control from commercial & indoor
operations; breathing air purification in rescue personnel equipment,
cabin air, and tobacco smoke; gaseous warfare suites and gas masks;
removal/ recovery or conversion of dissolved organics and heavy metals
from water or leach liquors; recovery of alcohol from fermentation
broth.?
Thermal Insulation: ?Examples of potential end-use applications of
Pristina? aerogel insulation products include walls, water boilers,
refrigerators, windows, furnaces, and vacuum flasks.?
Absorption
?Aerogel's moisture and odor absorbing qualities make it ideal for use
in "active-ware" fabrics designed for sports and recreational
activities.?
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?The absorptive qualities also make it perfect for use in the
packaging and shipping of foods, clothing, and electronics where
moisture can be especially damaging. Other potential end uses
applications include personal hygiene products.?
Controlled Release
?Aerogels can be used as reservoirs and diffusion controllers for
active ingredients in the controlled release capsules and products.?
?Such controlled release products might be used as fertilizers,
herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, cosmetics, foods, air
fresheners, deodorants, and pharmaceutics.?
?Pristina? Aerogels could be used in the development of medication
delivery systems by utilizing the controlled time release qualities.?
?These controlled release properties also make Pristina? an ideal
material for use in the development of various new household
products.?
Additives: ?Aerogel can be used in food, such as sugar, to reduce
caking, by removing moisture. Other potential end use applications
include plastics, coatings, cosmetics, paints, paper, pharmaceuticals,
and dentifrices.?
Potential "specialized" applications for Aerogels include acoustics,
electronics, and sensors.
TAASI
http://www.taasi.com/apps.htm
You may download the following documents regarding the technical
applications of aerogels
Air purification
http://www.taasi.com/pdf/air.pdf
Water based applications
http://www.taasi.com/pdf/water.pdf
Aerogels in Catalysis
http://www.taasi.com/pdf/catalyis.pdf
Aerogels for Built Environments
http://www.taasi.com/pdf/built.pdf
Insulation
http://www.taasi.com/pdf/insul.pdf
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Aspen Aerogels, Inc. is the global leader in Aerogel technology.
Aerogels are nanoporous, light weight materials that exhibit
extraordinarily low thermal and acoustic conductivity. Aerogels have
the highest thermal insulation value, the highest specific surface
area, the lowest density, the lowest speed of sound, the lowest
refractive index, and the lowest dielectric constant of all solid
materials. These properties give aerogels multiple applications in a
wide range of consumer, commercial, and military markets.
http://www.aerogel.com/
Aerogels are Extraordinary Solid Insulators
http://www.aerogel.com/technology2.htm
Applications
http://www.aerogel.com/solutions.htm
Commercial Applications:
?Aerogel materials are the best solid thermal insulators known. The
flexible blanket composites should have application to aerospace,
technical, clothing, appliance and commercial/residential HVAC
insulation markets.?
http://www.science.doe.gov/sbir/awards_abstracts/sbirsttr/cycle19/phase2/070.htm
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Cabot launched Nanogel, the world's first commercial translucent
silica aerogel product designed for the daylighting market.
http://www.kalwall.com/nano2.htm
From Cabot Corporation: Aerogel Overview
?A new class of environmentally-friendly hydrophobic silica particles,
Cabot's Nanogel aerogels provide exciting performance and design
features for a range of applications, including thermo insulation
panels for daylighting systems, insulation composites for
transportation vehicles, and rheological control agents for surface
coating and adhesive applications.?
http://w1.cabot-corp.com/controller.jsp?entry=product&N=23+1001+4294966858
Coatings
?Cabot's carbon black, fumed silica, and aerogel technologies provide
solutions for the high performance coatings industry, including the
following technically demanding applications:
- Automotive primers (basecoats, and clearcoats in the OEM or repair market)
- Marine coatings
- Aerospace coatings
- can coatings
- Decorative coatings
- wood coatings?
- Industrial coatings
http://w1.cabot-corp.com/controller.jsp?N=23+4294967248+1001&entry=market
Adhesives & Sealants
Read more about it here:
http://w1.cabot-corp.com/controller.jsp?N=23+4294967254+1001&entry=market
Insulation
?NanogelŪ Aerogels are a breakthrough technology in the insulation
market. Their unique properties provide excellent thermal and acoustic
insulation.?
Read more about it here:
http://w1.cabot-corp.com/controller.jsp?N=23+4294967225+1001&entry=market
Brochures related to the end-use applications
http://w1.cabot-corp.com/controller.jsp?N=23+1001+4294967248+4294966880&entry=market
Product Technology
http://w1.cabot-corp.com/controller.jsp?N=23+1001+4294967248+4294966856&entry=market
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Aerogel Beads as Cryogenic Thermal Insulation System
http://technology.ksc.nasa.gov/WWWaccess/techreports/2002report/600%20Fluid%20Systems/604.html
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From Plastics Technology Online:
?Some harder-to-classify new additives include Cabot Corp.?s Nanogel
hydrophobic silica aerogels, can be used as carriers, thickeners,
thixotropes, and matting agents.?
http://www.plasticstechnology.com/articles/200307fa1.html
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Nanopore Inc
NanoPore is an advanced material development and commercialization
company specializing in aerogels and other high performance porous
materials.
http://www.nanopore.com/
?Silica aerogel/xerogel (known as nanoporous silica) has numerous
properties, which make it ideal for use as a low dielectric constant
material (1.1<K<2.5) for interlevel dielectrics (ILD's).?
http://www.nanopore.com/lowk.html
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The Aerogel Research Laboratory, located on the grounds of the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, was established
in 1996 with the mission to investigate both the fundamental
properties and the cutting-edge applications of aerogels.
There is a wealth of information at this website.
http://fourier.mech.virginia.edu/~microhx/arlfrontpage.html
Research at the Aerogel Research Laboratory is currently concentrated
on three projects.
?With funding from DARPA and in conjunction with Veridian-PSR, the
laboratory is working to develop new sensor technology for the
detection of biological warfare agents. (..) This research could also
be applied to hospitals to detect harmful viruses and bacteria, or
used in manufacturing plants to detect toxic airborne chemicals.?
?The laboratory is also developing an aerogel/polymer composite
thin-film material with electrical insulating properties superior to
those currently in use. The purpose of this research, sposored by IBM,
is to create a novel composite interlayer dielectric material to
sustain the miniaturization of microelectronics.?
?Finally, the Aerogel Research Laboratory is conducting fundamental
research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, on how thermal
energy diffuses on a fractal-length scale. This research has the
potential to enhance the understanding of the thermal energy transport
processes in amorphous materials used in the microelectronics
industry.?
Aerogel Research Laboratory
http://fourier.mech.virginia.edu/~microhx/arldescription.html
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From the Center for Energy Studies:
Energy and materials
?The EM&P Team has developed new materials of considerable interest
in the energy fields. In the wake of research work on phase change
materials and on a new generation of fertilizers, attention focused
initially on silica aerogels and subsequently on carbon aerogels. The
former involve an application to advanced glazing while the latter
involve an energy storage facility. The relevant expertise ranges from
mastery of the development processes specific to the application,
particularly in energy terms, while including structural features.
Experimental work is conducted in a dedicated laboratory.?
Center for Energy Studies
http://www.ensmp.fr/Eng/Research/Domain/GenieProcedeEnerg/CENERG/CENERG-rap-summary.html
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The properties of aerogels are found in commercial applications
including extreme insulation clothing
?The Winter Extreme jacket manufactured by Italian clothing company
Corpo Nove is one of a number of products containing aerogel which are
expected to become a commercial reality this year.?
?The aerogel insulation blanket produced by Aspen Aerogels in the US
and employed as a lining for the Winter Extreme is said to be three
times more effective than 3M's Thinsulate. Aerogel is packed with
microscopic insulative air pockets that make it impossible for most
gas molecules, including air, to pass through, resulting in virtually
zero heat loss.?
Textile Month - 19/11/2003
http://www.inteletex.com/FrontPageFeatures.asp?NewsId=2435
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Aerogel Composite, LLC's
?Aerogel Composite, LLC's primary objective is to develop and supply
aerogel based composite materials for a wide variety of industries.
Aerogel Composite has developed a carbon aerogel based electrocatalyst
for use in the manufacturing of fuel cell electrodes. The catalyst can
reduce the platinum requirements for fuel cell vehicles to
approximately 30% of current levels while improving performance.?
http://www.aerogelcomposite.com/index.html
Applications:
Use as Catalysts
Use as Electrocatalyst for Fuel Cells
Use as Sensors
Use as Adsorbents
Use as Chromatographic Packings
Read more about it here:
http://www.aerogelcomposite.com/applications/applications.html
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