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Nanocomposite coatings developed for rockets.
Advanced Materials & Processes, November, 2001
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Nanocomposite coatings two nanometers thick that resist fire and heat have been announced by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, Va., and the U.S. Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. An Air Force research team led by chemistry professor Alan R.
Esker has studied very thin films of hybrid organic/inorganic molecules known as POSS (polyhedral oligomeric sequinoxanes). The organic part of the molecule is burned off, and leaves behind an inorganic polymer less than two nanometers ...
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