Silica for materials
Explore rice-husk silica as a raw material for aerogel and other useful products.
Sustainability
Less wasted energy.
More value from resources.
Our ambition is to help reduce energy wasted as heat and explore useful new roles for rice husks and materials from old solar panels.
Explore Our ApproachStart with energy
Keep useful heat where it belongs.
Better insulation can reduce the energy needed to keep spaces and products warm or cool. We work with manufacturers and project teams to explore how aerogel could play a part.
The wider picture matters too: the materials used, the energy needed to make them and how the finished product performs over its lifetime.
Explore insulation applications
Exploring useful materials from rice husks
- Rice husks
- Recover silica
- Explore new materials
Rice-husk research
Make more of the whole rice husk.
Rice husks are the outer shells removed when rice is processed. Our research explores recovering silica—the material used to make silica aerogel—and finding useful roles for what remains.
Uses for what remains
Investigate agricultural uses, including fertiliser applications, for the material left after silica extraction.
Solar-panel recovery
Old panels. New possibilities.
When solar panels reach the end of their working life, they still contain useful materials. Our research explores ways to separate and recover them, including the potential to use silica from glass in new materials.
We welcome discussions with researchers and partners who share this interest.
Explore solar-panel recovery
Our ambition for Thailand
Help Thailand move towards net zero.
We aim to contribute through insulation innovation, resource-recovery research and partnerships in Thailand. Our focus is practical: use resources thoughtfully and assess the impact of each approach.
Have a material, project or partnership in mind? Let’s discuss it.