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and Argonaut Private Equity, among others. Aero- gels are silica foams with nanoporous cavities that comprise 97% of their volume; thus earning them the name „solid air.“

Aerogels have been known as extremely fragile and brittle materials. Aspen has succeeded in producing aerogels in the form of thin, flexible mats at accep- table cost. These blankets are more robust than the

existing monoliths and spheres, and just as easy to process as any other flexible insulation material.

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n June 2011, AIXTRON (NASDAQ: AIXG) got a new order for an MOCVD reactor from new customer Taiyuan University of Technology, China. The order

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