This data repository contains the raw and processed data related to the manuscript "Plastic deformation and heat-enabled structural recovery of monolithic silica aerogels". Users willing to download the complete dataset could do so by using automated download tools. This would allow them to conserve more easily the structure of the dataset, and to bypass the downloading cap of Edmond for a single download (46.6 GB). We suggest using the python package DVuploader (https://github.com/gdcc/python-dvuploader). Alternatively, pyDataverse (https://pydataverse.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/basic-usage.html#download-and-save-a-dataset-to-disk) can be used.