Advanced materials for space applications |
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| Institution: | 1. NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton Virginia 23681, USA;2. NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546, USA;1. Department of Astronautical Electrical and Energy Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria 851-881, 00138 Rome, Italy;2. Department of Chemical Materials and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via del Castro Laurenziano 7, 00161 Rome, Italy;1. Belgorod State Technological University Named After V.G. Shoukhov, Kostyukov str., 46, Belgorod 308012, Russia;2. Belgorod State National Research University, Pobedy str., 85, Belgorod 308015, Russia;1. Aerospace & Advanced Composites GmbH, 2700 Wiener Neustadt, Austria;2. Department of Inorganic Materials, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovak Republic;1. State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, PR China;2. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China;3. Shanghai Aerospace Equipment Manufacture, Shanghai 200245, PR China |
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| Abstract: | Since NASA was created in 1958, over 6400 patents have been issued to the agency—nearly one in a thousand of all patents ever issued in the United States. A large number of these inventions have focused on new materials that have made space travel and exploration of the moon, Mars, and the outer planets possible. In the last few years, the materials developed by NASA Langley Research Center embody breakthroughs in performance and properties that will enable great achievements in space. The examples discussed below offer significant advantages for use in small satellites, i.e., those with payloads under a metric ton. These include patented products such as LaRC SI, LaRC RP 46, LaRC RP 50, PETI-5, TEEK, PETI-330, LaRC CP, TOR-LM and LaRC LCR (patent pending). These and other new advances in nanotechnology engineering, self-assembling nanostructures and multifunctional aerospace materials are presented and discussed below, and applications with significant technological and commercial advantages are proposed. |
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