The Swiss research group Empa has developed a new type of airgel-based material. They were built from a glass body with a lintel and epoxy stone spacers, with flint erogel on the walls. It turns out an architecture that is opaque, but accessible to the penetration of sunlight – similar “bricks” can be used instead of ceramic ones in the construction of buildings.
Scientists pursued two goals. Firstly, the durability efficiency, which has now dropped to 44.9 megapascals, exceeding the results of the ter- rials. Second, improve the thermal insulation properties, because the airgel itself is not affected. It turned out all the curious building material that replaced like bricks in a stevac in the wall like windows.
The high cost of airgel bricks is partially offset by versatility. They are opaque, and therefore cannot act as an analogue of a window, one of the spacious walls of such a material to freely cover the room in sunny weather. Translucent airgel bricks can be combined in masonry with conventional, ceramic, slightly tinted. In addition, there is an economy of thermal insulation, which becomes an important circumstance in connection with the European cenosine eno.
Source: Tech Cult
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