{"id":81712,"date":"2018-08-14T06:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/from-office-windows-to-mars-scientists-debut-super-insulating-gel"},"modified":"2018-08-14T06:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:42:23","slug":"from-office-windows-to-mars-scientists-debut-super-insulating-gel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/from-office-windows-to-mars-scientists-debut-super-insulating-gel","title":{"rendered":"From office windows to Mars: Scientists debut super-insulating gel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TOtA7GdCKEQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new, super-insulating gel developed by researchers at CU Boulder could dramatically increase the energy efficiency of skyscrapers and other buildings, and might one day help scientists build greenhouse-like habitats for colonists on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201caerogel,\u201d which looks like a flattened plastic contact lens, is so resistant to heat that you could put a strip of it on your hand and a fire on top without feeling a thing. But unlike similar products on the market, the material is mostly see-through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransparency is an enabling feature because you can use this gel in windows, and you could use it in extraterrestrial habitats,\u201d said Ivan Smalyukh, a professor in the Department of Physics. \u201cYou could harvest sunlight through that thermally-insulating material and store the energy inside, protecting yourself from those big oscillations in temperature that you have on Mars or on the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-office-windows-mars-scientists-debut.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-office-windows-mars-scientists-debut.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new, super-insulating gel developed by researchers at CU Boulder could dramatically increase the energy efficiency of skyscrapers and other buildings, and might one day help scientists build greenhouse-like habitats for colonists on Mars. The \u201caerogel,\u201d which looks like a flattened plastic contact lens, is so resistant to heat that you could put a strip [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}