Aerogel Market Size & Share | Growth Analysis 2035

Aerogel Market Size and Forecast

The Global Aerogel Market was valued at USD 1.25 Billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 6.08 Billion by 2035 at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 15.5% between 2025 and 2035. Aerogels are highly porous, lightweight, and insulating. Their properties make them an ideal candidate for various industries, including construction, aerospace, automotive, and electronics. With the world’s energy usage growing rapidly, the demand for energy loss reduction solutions are rising. Aerogels have very low thermal conductivity and are often used for thermal insulation in buildings and thermal protection in industrial applications.

Aerogels are low-density materials with unique properties, and they are solids. They are typically produced with the help of supercritical drying technology. However, more sophisticated technologies have emerged that offer better results. These are prepared by evaporating the liquid from a gel following a specific procedure, resulting in a 3D nanoporous structure containing air from 80 to 99%04. These can be made of any material, but they are most often made using a silica called silica aerogel. These include silica, polymer, and other compounds used in their production.

The aerospace and defense industries are a critical aerogel market needing lightweight materials capable of functioning in extreme temperatures and demanding environments. Aerogels are increasingly used for spacecraft, aircraft insulation, and military applications such as protective gear. Demand for aerogel products in these sectors is driven by the need for weight reduction to increase fuel efficiency and overall vessel performance, making these materials critical across high-performance applications.

Moreover, increasing mindfulness of environmental concerns and transitioning to eco-friendly materials are crucial in driving the market. With growing attention and concern for the environment, aerogels offer a great solution with low density and high efficiency. Moreover, the research for bio-based aerogels and sustainable production methods will continue to receive more funding and raise interest, attracting more investors and thus propelling the market further. With sustainability and eco-friendliness being a priority across industries, aerogels can expect to benefit from this trend, solidifying their status as  transformative materials for various applications.

The producers enter into contracts with wholesalers, retailers, distributors, exporters, or online sellers to make the product available. Distributional efficiency is one of the main critical reasons for the sluggish growth of manufacturers in overseas markets. The expensive production expenses incurred in the manufacture of Aerogels and their delicacy and fragility concerning transport in far-flung areas taking part in the ultimate delivery is poised to limit its growth to an extent over the forecast period.

Furthermore, advances in manufacturing processes have facilitated increased accessibility and affordability of aerogels for a wider array of industries. This includes the optimization of sol-gel processes and supercritical drying techniques, which have produced more refined aerogels with specific properties. Technological advancements increase manufacturing efficiency while ensuring the application-specific tailoring of aerogels, adding to their market attractiveness.

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Aerogel Market Key Highlights

• According to the Form, in the Aerogel market industry, the Blanket category held a major share, with a 64.5% share in 2024.
• Aerogel Market by Type: Silica dominated the Aerogel segment and accounted for 62.4% of the Aerogel market share in 2024
• By Technology, in the Aerogel market's flows in 2024, Supercritical drying dominated the market, holding a share of 70.5%.
• In 2024, the energy industry accounted for the largest market share, 47.5% of the Aerogel market by application.
• The Aerogel market in North America held the largest share of 43.5% in 2024.
• The aerogel market in the Asia Pacific region is expected to reach a value of USD XX billion by 2024, growing at the highest CAGR during the forecast period.

Driver: Rise in deploying technologies for the development of aerogels

Technological developments in aerogel manufacturing are helping to drive the aerogel market.

Recent Aerogel Advancements: Cost-effectiveness, scalability, and versatility have combined to make aerogels ideal engineering materials. Moreover, improved manufacturing processes enabled higher uniformity and quality, improving accessibility to aerogels for general applications in the construction, aerospace, electronics, and healthcare sectors. Furthermore, restructuring and combinatory aerogels have been examined to improve functionality and facilitate a tailored solution to unlock particular activity in a given application. As technologies continue to progress, aerogels will only become more important in the mission for better energy efficiency, sustainability, and performance in multiple industries, driving the growth of the aerogel market.

Limitations: Weak mechanical properties

Aerogels lack high mechanical strength, a major limitation in the aerogel market. While aerogels are remarkable in lightweight and thermal insulation, they have low mechanical strength. This can restrict their use in the construction and petrochemical sectors of industry, where strength and durability are paramount, for example, in transport sectors that necessitate materials capable of withstanding mechanical stress. Despite recent progress in reinforcement techniques, such as polymerization and nanoparticle reinforcement, their mechanical constraints remain challenging to deliver.

Opportunities: rising demand for sustainable solutions

The growing demand for sustainable solutions provides many opportunities in the aerogel market. Aerogels are recognized for their excellent thermal insulating characteristics and lightweight, making them energy-efficient and have low environmental impact throughout various industries. Additionally, growing environmental regulations coupled with increasing awareness towards climate change are fuelling demand for adopting environmentally friendly construction and automotive and aerospace materials such as aerogels. It enhances energy efficiency in buildings, reduces fuel consumption in cars, and improves performance in aerospace applications. Accordingly, aerogels are the best solution for achieving the goal of global sustainable development .

Challenges: We are talking about low-cost alternatives

The availability of inexpensive substitutes is a major obstacle for the aerogels. Aerogels certify marvelous thermal insulation with lightweight and thin properties. Their manufacturing costs remain fairly high compared to conventional insulation products like wool. This price difference may deter potential customers, especially in cost-sensitive industries. In fact, despite an even superior performance than aerogel materials, such as wool, fiberglass, or foam, acceptance has proven difficult due to the competitiveness of low-cost substitutes. Aerogel manufacturers and researchers are constantly finding ways to lower costs and improve the cost-efficacy of processing.

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Product Insights

The silica segment was the largest market share, at 64.9% revenue in 2024. In addition to their current and future application in several areas of technology, the energy-efficient chemical properties of silica aerogels have resulted in increased traction on silica aerogels worldwide. 1Define these gels as new nanostructured materials with large specific surface area, high porosity, low density, small dielectric constant, and excellent thermal insulation.

Global demand for polymer aerogels is expected to grow at a much faster CAGR of 22.0% during the forecast period due to the advantages of polymer aerogels in terms of chemical and physical properties compared to silica aerogels. Polymer aerogels are utilized in defense applications, electronic substrates, building and construction applications, vehicle interiors, and antennas. When these polymers are developed in monolithic form, they are mechanically robust and, hence, to some extent, sacrifice some of the advantages of silica, such as transparency and low thermal conductivity.

The segment of carbon products is expected to awaken a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.2% across the forecast period. The growth of this market segment is attributed to the increasing demand for carbon aerogels in energy storage applications. These aerogels possess a high mass-specific surface area and electrical conductivity and produce excellent environmental compatibility. Due to their low chemical inertness, they have potential applications in catalysis, distillation, sorbent, and energy storage.

Form Insights

In 2024, the blanket segment held the maximum revenue share in the market at 65.4%. Aerogel blankets are made of silica aerogel, a highly thermally resistant and low-density material. So, they are perfect for applications that demand extra insulation, such as aerospace, construction, and oil and gas. Aerogels, or rather blankets, are novel materials promising to provide insulation in the age of energy efficiency.

K Automation was the largest contributor to revenue in 2015. However, the panel segment is projected to record the fastest CAGR of 21.5% over the forecast period. These panels, which are typically based on silica aerogels, can achieve impressive thermal insulation properties, making them suitable for a range of applications. They are increasingly used in the construction, automotive, and aerospace sectors, where energy efficiency and weight reduction are important. With the increasing awareness of sustainable building trends and energy conservation, demand for aerogel panels has also increased.

End-use Insights

The oil & gas segment generated the largest share of revenue from the market for oil & gas, accounting for 61.0% of revenue in 2024. Aerogels are highly porous materials with low density, good thermal insulation, and mechanical strength. Such properties come in handy in the oil and gas industry, where effective thermal management is a key factor in drilling, transportation, and refining processes. Aerogels exhibit superb insulation and withstandance toward extremities of temperature, enabling less energy usage & enhancing security at oil gas amenities.

Performance coatings are projected to witness the highest CAGR of 18.4% during the forecast period. The increasing emphasis on energy efficiency and sustainability fuels the adoption of aerogel-based performance coatings. The incorporation of aerogels into coatings promises a move towards more sustainable technologies as industries now look to reduce their carbon footprint and become more resilient to volatile energy prices. Moreover, improvements in aerogel production techniques  are making these materials cheaper and more accessible, driving their application into a wider variety of use cases.

Technology Insights

Since supercritical drying can effectively prepare aerogels from their polymeric precursors, which can then retain their 3D pore structures, this segment dominated the market and contributed 71.3% of the global revenue in 2024. This results in aerogels' individual properties, which include high porosity, low density, and high surface area. Supercritical drying, which is, in essence, the appropriate removal of solvents from aerogel pores using supercritical fluids, has become a common drying method for wet gels.

Supercritical drying is critical for upscaling laboratory drying units to pilot and industrial scales and for evaluating the economics of industrial-scale aerogel manufacturing. In fact, supercritical drying often has a lower density than the old carbon dioxide, and therefore, high-temperature organic solvent supercritical drying is also the best method for minimal shrinkage.

Geographically, the Aerogel Market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the World.

North America is the largest global aerogel market because of important players in end-use industries such as oil & gas, power generation, construction, transportation, etc. Due to its emphasis on energy efficiency & stringent building codes in the oil & gas and construction sector, North America is the market's most rapidly growing geographical area. Aerogels have been used in the transportation sector, including aerospace and automotive, due to their lightweight and thermal insulation properties. These properties enhance performance for transportation applications such as battery insulation. These factors underscore the significance of North America's market share in the expanding aerogel market.

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Competitive Landscape

The Aerogel Market report consists of an overview of the various market segments and applications of the market, the latest research in the Aerogel Market, trends and developments, Aerogel Market drivers, Aerogel Market restraints, product developments, applications, upcoming technologies, and Aerogel Market revenue and growth factors in the market. Organizations like Aspen Aerogels, Cabot Corporation, Armacell International, and Svenska Aerogel are investing in research and development processes to enhance the performance characteristics of aerogels for application in insulation, energy storage, and industrial sectors. To meet growing demand, especially in electric vehicle (EV) batteries and green construction, new entrants such as JIOS Aerogel and Aerogel-it GmbH are expanding their manufacturing capacity. Hence, the increase in interest in sustainable solutions can be seen through developments like the collaboration of Fibenol and Aerogel-it for bio-aerogel. Moreover, progress in aerogel-based composites and ultra-thin thermal barriers are becoming mainstream products, driven by innovative solutions such as ENTERA by Cabot Corporation designed for lithium-ion batteries. Showcasing numerous applications in oil & gas, automotive, aerospace, and construction, the Aerogel market continues to be dynamic owing to technological advancements coupled with rising adoption across the globe.

Some of the key players in the global Aerogel market include Enersens, Zhejiang UGOO Technology Co., Ltd, Aerogel Technologies, LLC, Cabot Corporation, Nano Tech Co., Ltd, aerogel-it GmbH, Aspen Aerogels, Inc., Guangdong Alison Technology Co., Ltd, Armacell International S.A, and many others.

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Recent Market Developments

• Aspen Aerogels, Inc. opened a new engineering and rapid prototyping center in June 2023 in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
• Cabot Corporation – In May 2023, the company launched its ENTERA product range (ENTERA EV5200, ENTERA EV5400, and ENTERA EV5800), which comprises ultra-thin thermal barriers for lithium-ion batteries.
• JIOS Aerogel (JIOS) launched a leading-edge production facility in Pioneer, Singapore, in November 2023 to manufacture aerogel-based technology designed for safer and more efficient electric vehicle (EV) batteries
• Fibenol extracted lignin directly from biomass, and in March 2023, it partnered with Aerogel-it to develop a bio-aerogel made from lignin.
• In February 2023, Svenska Aerogel signed a cooperation agreement with a massive global company in the process industry to improve the use of quartzite in their products. During the pilot phase, Svenska Aerogel expressed its commitment to an annual delivery of 30 tons of quartzite.

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Aerogel Market Segments Covered in the report:

Form

• Blanket
• Particle
• Panel
• Monolith

Type

• Silica
• Polymer
• Carbon
• Others
• Metal oxide
• Mixed metal oxide
• Metal chalcogenides

Processing

• As manufactured (Virgin)
• Composites
• Additives

Technology

• Supercritical drying
• Other drying

Application

• Energy industrial
• Transportation
• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Marine
• Railway
• Architecture & Construction
• Other applications

Aerogel Market Regions and Countries:

North America

• U.S.
• Canada
• Mexico

Europe

• Germany
• France
• U.K.
• Italy
• Spain
• Nordic Countries
• Benelux Union
• Rest of Europe

Asia Pacific

• China
• Japan
• India
• New Zealand
• Australia
• South Korea
• South-East Asia
• Rest of Asia Pacific

Latin America

• Brazil
• Argentina
• Rest of Latin America

The Middle-East and Africa

• Saudi Arabia
• UAE
• Egypt
• Kuwait
• South Africa
• Rest of Middle-East Africa