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Product Description This digital document is an article from Advanced Materials & Processes, published by ASM International on December 1, 1996. The length of the article is 522 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the supplier: Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are advocating the use of silica aerogels in safety and protective devices to absorb kinetic energy. The energy of an object hitting a silica aerogel is absorbed by the collapse of the inorganic solid's structure and the release of the gas contained in it. A silica aerogel can decrease the maximum load produced during crushing to a significantly low level. Citation Details Title: Silica aerogels absorb kinetic energy. Publication: Advanced Materials & Processes (Refereed) Date: December 1, 1996 Publisher: ASM International Volume: v150 Issue: n6 Page: p5(1) Distributed by Thomson Gale