Researchers turn waste paper into oil cleaning aerogel

zoeritts: Aerogel is the world’s lightest solid. It is also...

zoeritts:

Aerogel is the world’s lightest solid. It is also known as liquid smoke, though that seems inaccurate and overly romanticized. NASA developed it and still uses it to catch cosmic dust for study. Cool. I just learned about it from Zoe Laughlin, cofounder / director of the University College of London’s Institute of Making,

“…a multidisciplinary research club for those interested in the made world: from makers of molecules to makers of buildings, synthetic skin to spacecraft, soup to diamonds, socks to cities.” 

Actually I watched her in this mostly boring TED talk, but material science is cool and so is aerogel. 

This stuff is cool, weird, and crazy.

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