Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-lnqnp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T02:17:26.598Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Projects of the Consortium for Materials Development in Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Charles A. Lundquist
Charles A. Lundquist*
Affiliation:
Consortium for Materials Development in Space The University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, Alabama 35899
Get access

Abstract

The Consortium for Materials Development in Space amalgamates private industries, the federal government, and universities for a common goal, commercial developments in space. The Consortium embraces research and development projects that benefit from unique attributes of space and that also rely on innovative applications of physical chemistry, material transport and their interactions. Three projects employ vapor transport of material from a solid source at one end of a sealed container to a growing crystal at the other end. The fourth and fifth projects have desired surface properties of materials as their objectives. In one of these, surfaces are electrodeposited, often with inert solid particles codeposited in the surface layer. The other project investigating surface properties makes use of the atomic oxygen environment outside a spacecraft. A surface exposed toward the direction of orbital motion is impacted by a beam predominantly of 5 electron volt oxygen atoms. This can produce unusual chemical reactions and surface morphology. The sixth project uses demixing of immiscible polymers in low-g to better understand the role of phase segregation in the properties of polymer blends and to accomplish the purification of materials by partitioning between two liquid phases.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 87: Symposium O – Materials Processing in the Reduced Gravity Environment of Space , 1986 , 121
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1987

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Consortium for Materials Development in Space, Annual Report, Technical Section, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, September 1986. Much of the information in this paper is abstracted from accounts prepared for the Annual Report by participants in each project.Google Scholar
2. Paley, M.S. and Harris, J.M., “Synthesis of of the Aldehyde of Oligomeric Polyoxeyethylene,” J. Polm. Sci., Polm. Chem. Edn., submitted.Google Scholar
3. Ehrhardt, J., “Versuche Zur Elektrolytischen Metallabscheidung unter Schwerelosigkeit,” Galvanotechnik, D7958, Saulgan 72, 13.Google Scholar
4. George Maybee, W., Riley, Clyde, and Coble, H. Dwain, “Microgravity Effects on Electrodeposition of Metals in Metal-Cerment Mixtures,” presented at the NASA Get Away Special Experimenter's Symposium, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, October 7-8, 11986; NASA Conference Publication 2438.Google Scholar
5. Van Alstine, J.M., Boyce, J., Harris, J.M., Bamberger, S.B., Curreri, P.A., Snyder, R.S., and Brooks, D.E., “Interfacial Factors Affecting the Demixing of Aqueous Polymer Two-Phase Systems in Micro-Gravity,” Proceedings of NSF Workshop on Interfacial Phenomena in New and Emerging Technologies, Boulder, CO, May 29-31, 1986.Google Scholar
6. Gregory, J.C. and Peters, P.N., ”Interactions of 5eV Atomic Oxygen with Solid Surfaces,” presented at the Low Energy Ion Beams -4 Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, April 4-10, 1986; LEIB-4 Conference Abstracts, p. 54.Google Scholar
7. Gregory, J.C. and Peters, P.N., ”A Measurement of the Angular Distribution of 5eV Oxygen Atoms Scattered from a Solid Surface in Earth Orbit,” presented at the 15th Rarefied Gas Dynamics Conference, Grado, Italy, June 16-20, 1986. To appear in Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Vol.15 (1986).Google Scholar
8. Sjolander, G. and Bareiss, L., “The Martin Marietta Atomic Oxygen Beam Facility,” Proceedings of the 18th SAMPE International Technical Conference, 1986. SAMPE, P.O. Box 2459, Covina, CA 91722.Google Scholar
9. Kinser, Jason, “Growth of ZnSe Crystals by Vapor Deposition,” presented at the Spring 1986 meeting of the Alabama Academy of Sciences, Montgomery, AL (unpublished).Google Scholar