Aerogel Finally Cheap Enough for Home Insulation

[Elder Iptuous]

So the pictures i've seen of this material always shows blocks of it.
If it relies on some special drying technique, then i'm guessing that its formed at manufacturing into a rigid structure?  So you couldn't blow it in like conventional insulation....
i guess it would be used in insulated structural panels?

[Jasper]

Wouldn't be unthinkable just to use panels.

[Requia ☣]

the article says its being sold in sheets.

The melting point is 1200 C, I can't find an operating temperature (the point at which the material degrades).

However, its apparently transparent to certain IR frequencies, that peak around 300-600C, so some high temp stuff might have a problem with it.  There's some work being done on making variants that don't have that problem, but they have issues.

Edit: The paper I'm getting this from is ten years old, so the issues with the variants might have been fixed.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It would be ideal for glass kilns which only need to go to 815c. Ceramics have to go a bit higher, but it would probably still be workable. I mean, firebrick degrades over time anyway, why not use a massively more efficient material?

[Requia ☣]

Oh, you probably know this Nigel, what's the operating temperature of firebrick?

*has been searching for a workable very high temp material for a mad science project.

[Requia ☣]

Never mind, I found it, it would melt