Aerogel and Water

[TheAgnostiic]

Never mind, after watching some of your other videos, I see that you make your own aerogel.

[TheAgnostiic]

Where do you get your aerogel from? I've been looking all over the interner and I can't find it anywhere.

[NhatNguyenTV]

Sponge is 50% air and it absorbs water. The fact that Aerogel is 99% air helps it become a super-absorbing material. New stuff for your kids' diapers.

[GDop26]

So...how do you get the water back out.

[RoboticusMusic]

@pimbilibom A REAL CON ARTIST!

[Harperlarp]

HA! That aerogel was all like, "Nom nom nom!" on that water.

[dvh065]

Thanks, I mean during transfer on 747, but waterproof would help, I think silica fibers coated with borosilicate are still in use for space ship heat shield.

[dvh065]

Is this will change thermal insulation characteristic of aerogel? If this use for outside insulation of space ship then after enter the cloud, it will drop like a rock.

[pimbilibom]

@dvh065 1) the aerospace type aerogels are waterproof, 2) there is no liquid water at 2000° of heat shield temperature.

[dkoribag1]

@pimbilibom hydrophobic aerogel mat ROCKS. CNT rock.

[TheNeostrike]

the water looks like some bad ass predator catching its pray

[Shadow2271]

Next Gen tampon

[danielbrowniel]

@Shadow2271 60$ tampon.

[BlakjeKaas]

ShamWow v2?

[bladegamer15]

i see what happened the watter filled the gaps where the air is and then it was frozen

[zadeh79]

Great absobtion!

[958933]

fake

[pimbilibom]

@958933 what is fake my dear?

[noreason2701]

@pimbilibom So by "the aerogel is destroyed" I assume you mean there's NO way at all remove the water from it without destroying it?

[pimbilibom]

@noreason2701 the aerogel is destroyed by absorbing the water. it's nanostructure collapses as the water front proceeds in the volume. The forces developed by surface tension are tremendous because the internal surface is in order of thousands sq.meters.

[noobdosjogos]

@958933 it is not fake its aerogel

[victorn1802]

@958933 *facepalm

[LeetCrafter]

@958933 aerogel is made out of air particles, mainly smoke particles.

[killeroftheshadows96]

@LeetCrafter wow.......it has the nickname frozen smoke. it is made of sicicadioxide "glass" not air particals. granite, it does have a lot of air in it (99.98%)

[LeetCrafter]

@killeroftheshadows96 I did say that it was made out of mainly smoke, if you read correctly.

[killeroftheshadows96]

@LeetCrafter IT IS NOT NOT NOT NOT MADE OF ANY, I MEAN ANY SMOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[arealydeadman]

here come the dirty comments.....

[kitt998]

that is kewl

[thethoughtproject]

Wow, thirsty little block !

[ForViewingOnly]

Thanks for the video. So how will the aerogel be used for house insulation in the future, when there is always some moisture in lofts/attics and walls? If the answer is surface treatment, surely there's the chance of the gel cracking and an untreated area of aerogel being exposed to the moisture?

[pimbilibom]

@ForViewingOnly "surface" means ALL the pores inside the aerogel. The internal surface of aerogel is few thousand sq.meters per gram. All of it is treated. It is water repellant all over, even if you grind it to dust, every bit is hydrophobic.

[ForViewingOnly]

@pimbilibom Thanks for the reply. This is very exciting technology.

[xato909]

and now? how you can remove absorved water?

[pimbilibom]

@xato909 the aerogel is destroyed, water can be recovered by evaporation at 200°C.

[Scraleontis]

@pimbilibom what happens when the water is recovered by evaporation? What does the aerogel end up as?

[kidi1232]

@pimbilibom but water evaporate at 100C, so why 200??

i think i miss-clicked the reply button and pressed the "vote down" button, sorry for that.

[pimbilibom]

@kidi1232 the only down vote! The last water bonded to surface has stronger bond that brake way hotter.

[kidi1232]

@pimbilibom oh, i get it, thank you.

[otakukj]

Why don't they try that shit on the ocean where all the oil spilt?

[krinkpuff]

GET IN MAH BELLEH

[TheSolarmike]

If you vacuum encapsulate the aerogel in ethylene vinyl acetate it becomes immune to water and it also provides uniform pressure to enable it to be used as a functional insulation material. Eva is also uv stable...

Hum....

[maraque]

This will make Sham-wow go out of business!!!

[lightswitchworks]

this reminds me of spongebob

[icyiceness]

think this will clean up the oil spill?

[delta0]

This aerogel is hydrophilic. A hydrophobic aerogel will not respond in the same way.

[MIIKOLMA]

HOW MANY COST THE AEROGEL??????'

[gtmsnba13]

@MIIKOLMA i think like $25

[pimbilibom]

@MIIKOLMA check this out  collectibles.shop.ebay.com/Col­lectibles-/1/i.html?&_nkw=aero­gel

[Dudester567]

After being soaked in water, is it possible for the Aerogel to be treated in such a way that the water gets taken out? And by this I mean, can its insulation abilities be restored?

[pimbilibom]

@Dudester567

the aerogel is wasted, no restore. =(

[shark199]

@pimbilibom

can't you just heat it up?

[shark199]

@pimbilibom Isn't it possible by just heating it up?

[pimbilibom]

@shark199 no, my dear, heating does not help. The glass nanostructure is broken already when water penetrated it. That is why you can see it - the aerogel gets white. That is the trick of making it - supercritical drying - that makes it incredibly expencive.

See collectibles.shop.ebay.com/Col­lectibles-/1/i.html?&_nkw=aero­gel for prices.

[pimbilibom]

@Dudester567 But there is easy way to make it waterproof, by surface modification. Water has no effect at all then. See my other vids on that.

[FoodUser]

I guess you could scrap the idea of house insulation.

I could just imagine the damage water could do if there was a leak!

[krusty54321]

@FoodUser

think b4 posting:

materials 4 insulation used today arent water-resistent too.

Normally the insualtion is on the inner-side of the walls...

[va3atc]

That is awesome. A sugar cube will do something similar, but nowhere near *that* fast and wont be able to see detail in the cube like this Aerogel.

[aerogelz]

air

[jigglesnap]

swallow it!

[pimbilibom]

it is chemically the same that "DO NOT EAT",

though cows eat it in tons because grass contains this, silicon dioxide.

[jigglesnap]

I suppose you think it's ok to swallow glass, too, then?

[pimbilibom]

Yes, sure, it is known as food additive E551.

Silica gel is labeled "DO NOT EAT" because of additives, silica itself is harmless. In contrast, crystalline silica causes silicosis, most common occupational lung disease worldwide.

[JordanMaster22]

even after soaking water, is it still perfect in insulation?

[pimbilibom]

no, aerogel is wasted if it gets wet.

if it is chemically treated then it can repel water.

[WhiteWolfos]

So maybe that is why they didn't bother with mass producing this as insulation for houses etc..XD

[pimbilibom]

It is used as insulator when treated chemically to reject water. It is not very popular in construction because it cost more than rockwool or styrofoam. Instead, it has tremendous impact in window industry to global warming, reducing 10% of world emissions if applied.

[WhiteWolfos]

I see, very interesting.

[lepape2]

Does that mean that in ambient air, aerogel absorbs moisture and slowly gains in density?

[pimbilibom]

Affirmative.

Aerogel is chemically the same as silica gel, known as "Do Not Eat" packages to keep your goods dry. Unless chemically treated to hydrophobic.

[lepape2]

Oh! I just realized I have one right here that I kept after opening my new hard drive package. Has a hole new meaning now... Was reading about it on Wikipedia and there is soooo much information there it could go on for hours.

[StormRisingOriginal]

Great vid, I love how you can see the water inside the aerogel.

[Mortus125]

how different are dry aerogel from "wasted" ?

[pimbilibom]

like a cake before and after digestion.

[pimbilibom]

don't bother, better solve a trillion dollar question of making it cheaper, better and faster.

[zoomerlawns]

Million dollar question;

How can we use this in a sexual nature?

[VCat2006]

Cleaning up spills?

[pimbilibom]

no.

as you can read, the aerogel is wasted.

one-way reaction.

[Perscriptions]

There's the comment!

[Perscriptions]

Can you dry the cube again?

[sledstormx]

I don't think people understand just how unimpressive this really is.

Aerogel is composed of tightly packed nano-silicate fibers, which act as a configuration of microscopic capillaries, which complemented by the highly polar nature of water, causes such spontaneous absorption.

The more impressive thing about aerogel is its insane compression strength.

[AgentCROCODILE]

Frozen Smoke on the Water

[capetorial]

SHAM-WOW!

[ZerroShadows]

@capetorial I'll say wow every time!

[woohoo1997]

@capetorial bo, Sham-WOW on steroids, no, on alchohol

[xXKariBananaXx]

So this is a next-gen spill absorber...

[G3M333]

sure, if your willing to pay hundreds of dollars to clean one spill lol

[antiswattt2]

search 159 aerogel :D a man paid 159 dollars for a small piece of it.. but still.. dammn cool stuff q: he says that its more worth than gold (in weight it is) i dont know about size prize.. but definately not cheap!

[TheBikefish]

@xXKariBananaXx it cost more than gold so i would think no

[Anzyanz]

Holy shit.

That's cool

[PhantasyStarOST]

Cool iceberg.

[elguardino]

O shit