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Tanpopo cosmic dust collector: Silica aerogel production and bacterial DNA contamination analysis
Makoto Tabata, Yuko Kawaguchi, Shin-ichi Yokobori +4
Hydrophobic silica aerogels with ultra-low densities have been designed and developed as cosmic dust capture media for the Tanpopo mission which is proposed to be carried out on th…
Development of transparent silica aerogel over a wide range of densities
Makoto Tabata, Ichiro Adachi, Yoshikazu Ishii +3
We have succeeded in developing hydrophobic silica aerogels over a wide range of densities (i.e. refractive indices). A pinhole drying method was invented to make possible producin…
Hydrophobic silica aerogel production at KEK
Makoto Tabata, Ichiro Adachi, Hideyuki Kawai +2
We present herein a characterization of a standard method used at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) to produce hydrophobic silica aerogels and expand this met…