The Next Generation of Silicon-Based Plastics: Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) Nanocomposites
Abstract
The proposed operational requirements of future military, space, and commercial vehicles, have forced designers and engineers to increasingly incorporate lightweight polymeric structures into higher temperature Component applications. Consequently, existing hydrocarbon. based resin technology will be pushed to its critical thermal performance limits while material performance issues such as reduced flammability and retention of mechanical properties at elevated temperatures have not been satisfactorily resolved. Despite manufacturers' and molders' attempts to obtain new physical properties from the existing pool of polymer types, the low cost avenues of polymer-polymer blending and processing manipulations have only produced incremental improvements to properties. Surprisingly the development of new chemical feedstock technologies that may offer high-tech solutions to inherent material-property shortcomings have not been seriously pursued.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 20, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA397997
Entities
People
- Joseph D Lichtenhan *
- Joseph J. Schwab
- Kevin P. Chaffee
- Michael J. Carr
- Timothy S. Haddad
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory