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flynfrog
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NickT wrote:Actually...
Commercial manufacture of aerogel 'blankets' began around the year 2000. An aerogel blanket is a composite of silica aerogel and fibrous reinforcement that turns the brittle aerogel into a durable, flexible material.
It could quite easily be used to replace the honeycomb in composite structures.
how well will it bond to a resin matrix though and will it survive the vacum and heat used to make pannels