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Nanogel® is Cabot Corporation's trade name for its family of silica aerogels. Although aerogel was first invented 75 years ago, Cabot has been producing Nanogel aerogel since 2003 at its state-of-the-art plant in Frankfurt, Germany. Cabot is the only company to develop a commercialized process that allows continuous production of the material under ambient conditions. This process allows control of the material's porosity, pore size and distribution, and bypasses the high-cost traditional method of super-critical drying, so that Nanogel can be manufactured in a safe and cost effective manner.

Easily adapted for a wide range of applications, including:

 

  

Key characteristics*:

Extremely low thermal conductivity

9-12mW/mK

High porosity

95% air, 5% solid

Nano-sized pores

20-40 nanometers

High surface area

~750m2/g

Very low tap density 

30-100kg/m3

High oil absorption capacity (DBP) 

540g/100g
Specific heat capacity Kj/Kg .7-1.15

Variety of particle sizes 

5 microns-4mm

Surface chemistry 

Completely hydrophobic

Opacity

Translucent, IR opacified and opaque
   

*Characteristics vary depending on application, temperature and form.