Recently, Dirk had the opportunity to give a talk on aerogel materials at Hochschule Osnabrück. This talk was part of the lecture series “Materials in Future Technologies” by Prof. Dr. Markus Susoff and Prof. Dr. Svea Petersen. 👩🎓👨🎓
It doesn’t happen often that the team can step out of the day-to-day work to talk about what we do. And it was a real pleasure for Dirk to take this time to share with a group of master students what makes aerogels such a fascinating class of materials.
The focus of this session which also included polymer foams and other materials was energy efficiency. This is a field that aerogels as excellent thermal insulators feel right at home in. From heat shields for electric vehicle batteries to energy-efficient building renovation, aerogels are already enabling real-world solutions. But beyond that there is much more – including completely new applications and aerogel materials such as biomineral silica aerogels and bioaerogels that we as aerogel-it are working on.
What stood out most, though, was the reminder of how fortunate we as aerogel-it are: working every day on such an advanced technology we truly believe in. And pushing the boundaries every day with the great team that we as a company have grown into. Our passion for aerogels has kept us going for more than a decade. And there is still so much to explore and value to create.
Looking forward to what the next decades will bring!
