My next wetsuit needs to be made of this!

[Ice9]

No more neoprene! Someday. Maybe...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2284349.ece

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/06/chunks_of_aerogel_fo.html

 

[PufferFish_75]

We'd also be cleaning up the ocean as we swam! I'm in!!

 

[TSandM]

"Lowest density of any substance . . . " Does not bode well for the amount of weight it will take to sink it!

 

[D_B]

That might be offset by it's efficiency as an insulator, if 3mm of this = 8mm of neoprene

Aerogel is pretty cool stuff

 

[Ice9]

That might be offset by it's efficiency as an insulator, if 3mm of this = 8mm of neoprene

Aerogel is pretty cool stuff

If 18mm will insulate against -130C, I bet you'd only need 1mm!

 

[timyang]

They're making it for the US Navy. Started in 2005.

http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/3487

 

[scuba70]

This sounds like some awesome stuff! I wonder what the price tag is.

 

[soonerwink]

Does that mean if you pee in your wetsuit it will absorb it and keep it in there? And I thought neoprene smelled bad.

 

[Aelvin]

wow... soon our winter jacket will be 1mm too!!

 

[Nemrod]

I have seen some of the stuff and you can see through it, which, will bring new meaning to threads such as "what do you wear under your wetsuit" should it be used for such a thing.

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