Self-healing technologies on organic materials

Space can be an unforgiving environment for elderly satellites, with temperature extremes, tiny rocks and other hazards threatening to breach spacecraft hulls.But future spacecraft may be able to extend their mission lifetimes by borrowing a human trait to heal minor nicks and scratches.The analogy is the human body. Think about cutting yourself. There, capillary action will draw blood out to block the cut.By encapsulation technologies of monomers and photoinitiator, we will show that it is possible to plug a crack made by a meteorite, in spatial environment.
PERICHAUD Alain
Macromolecular chemistry laboratory,Marseille University.Catalyse company,Marseille,France
国际会议
5th International Symposium on High-Tech Polymer Materials(HTPM-V)(第五届国际高技术高分子材料学术会议)
北京
英文
72
2008-10-27(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)