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We are very grateful that we could share our aerogel-it vision on lignin bioaerogels for decarbonization with the global aerogel community during the 2022 edition of the International Seminar On Aerogels at TUHH. A big thank you to the organizers for this chance!

It was an excellent conference with participants from all over the world. We enjoyed a fascinating talk by Stephanie Vivod from NASA on polyimide aerogels as tough materials for space applications! As usual, Aerogel Technologies gave amazing talks with beautiful slides – glad to see they are advancing with their scale-up activities. Lots of interesting contributions from the TUHH group of Irina Smirnova, the TU Dresden group of Alexander Eychmüller and the team of Barbara Milow at the DLR. Many interesting samples to see and, also important, to touch like the carbon aerogels for EV battery electrodes made by aerogel veteran Nick Leventis now working at Aspen Aerogels. And of course the beautiful silica aerogel art by Prof. J. Michalou(di)s which also made its way into jewelry like the Goutte de Ciel by Boucheron.

And above all it was really nice to see so many members of our aerogel family again in person after so many years (and to have beers with some of them)! We had good discussions on aerogel science during the days and over dinner, and while we are advancing our understanding it also became clear that there is still a lot about these materials at the boundary of liquid and solid we do not know – more research waiting to be done.

We are excited to present the first superinsulating lignin aerogel – 100% bio-based and renewable!

If you are interested to learn more about our aerogel come to see us at the Hamburg Innovation Summit on June 2nd in Hamburg – or contact us.

Lignin is a major component of trees and responsible for their strength amongst other functions. We convert lignin to a high-performance material using our IP-protected technology. This is one of our clean tech contributions to the urgent decarbonization need across various industries.

Our lignin aerogel is producible at large scale. We are currently acquiring investment for our first aerogel production plant to serve our customers ASAP!

Making aerogels out of lignin has been a tough objective in aerogel R&D. We have come a long way with our TUHH colleagues since we started our aerogel journey at BASF. Thanks to everyone!

This week our co-founders Marc and Dirk visited the CUBE in Dresden, an amazing building that was recently unveiled for the first time. They were very warmly received by construction manager Matthias Tietze and public relations manager Sandra Kranich of the C³ association.

The CUBE is the worldwide first building built entirely with carbon-reinforced concrete to demonstrate the strengths of this new construction technology. Instead of steel reinforcement carbon fiber meshes are used. This enables much thinner walls since the steel reinforcement does not require thick concrete layers for protection against corrosion. Saving wall thickness saves concrete and weight, which in turn saves CO₂ from concrete production and transportation of the wall elements. Thinner walls also free up valuable space in the building.

To further optimize this, aerogel insulation has been installed for thinnest thermal insulation, and we are very happy that our SLENTITE® aerogel was chosen for the CUBE! SLENTITE® was developed by Marc and Dirk (and their colleagues) during their time at BASF. In combination, thin carbon-reinforced concrete and SLENTITE® aerogel make thinnest construction possible. As additional benefit, the robust and non-dusty SLENTITE® panels were easy to install for the C³ team. This was not the first joint use for SLENTITE® and carbon-reinforced concrete since the powerful combination had already been put to the test in the house of Matthias, along with SLENTITE® for thin floor insulation – a story we will share in a separate post.

Aerogel-it is working on new sustainable aerogel solutions, for space- and CO₂-saving construction of the future.

We are happy to announce that aerogel-it GmbH and Lignopure GmbH have agreed on a collaboration on the development of new materials for Biomedicine and Cosmetic applications. We are excited to push lignin as one of the most interesting green raw materials for a sustainable future!

As aerogel-it, we will bring our globally leading aerogel material and processing expertise to the table for these next-level green aerogel-based products.

The agreement was signed by CEOs Joana Gil Chavez and Marc Fricke at TUHH where both companies have had a fruitful history of academic work and industrial collaborations, thanks to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Irina Smirnova, the PhD supervisor of many co-founders of both companies.

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