Non conventional matrix / Carbon nanotubes reinforced composite for space application (ESA-CNT)

Duration

2007-2009

Keywords

carbon nanotube, space application, composite material, buckypaper, thermal conductivity

Description

The potential of CNT composites for space applications shows that Young modulus improvement will be brought by CNT fiber in the 3-5 years and that, the property to target for CNT composites in two years is thermal conductivity. In this framework, buckypaper is the more reliable structure to be infiltrated up to now and already reaches good conductivities.

Research unit(s)

• Unit of surface and analytical chemistry and electrochemistry (CESA)
• Laboratory of Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Surfaces (CES)

Research theme(s)

• Nanostructured surfaces and nanocomposites

Staff (finished contracts)