Structure & Materials Analysis and Manufacturing Capability

• Processing advanced microcellular polymer & carbon foams for aircraft & aerospace sandwich structures

• Processing supermicrocellular and nanocellular high Tg polymerfoams for canopies & windscreen applications

• Preparing reflective  & conductive polymer thin films (via in-situmetallization) & space mirrors

• Processing carbon nanofibers & carbon nanotubes

• Developing reconfigurable tooling techniques for rapid composite prototyping and low cost fabrication of composite structures using liquid molding or prepeg

• Processing reconfigurable mandrel materials for composite manufacturing

• Developing innovative fabrication methods for advanced composites, e.g., folding methods

• Fabricating composite structures (aerospace, ground transportation and infrastructure, etc.) using a resin transfer molding (RTM) technique

• Processing advanced polymers, liquid crystalline polymers and their blends, and transparent polymers

• Coating thin film

• Manufacturing composite structures using commercially available machines and methods

• Synthesizing LCP’s, polyimides, rigid-rod polymers and nanocomposites