Consider the 1985 invention of Starlite. Invented by hairdresser Maurice Ward. Starlite can resist 10000+ degrees at just 1/20th of an inch thick and stop the thermal profile from reaching an egg. The ingredients are unknown they were lost when Maurice died at age 78.pic.twitter.com/hvjQ0vcUfs
John, great question. In my view it is far superior to aerogel in many applications. Aerogel is quite fragile and can not be painted on to an object. Thus is an amazing material just limited in application. I see Aerogel most as a new holographic display technology.
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Interesting, so the aerogel applications related to heat are perhaps side branches without much fruit? For fun, Ive imagined Aerogel dust with a ferrous element as a way to make EM field-derived atmosphere containers to allow open plant growth in the vacuum (spaceship tree ;)
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