Self-healing materials for space applications: overview of present development and major limitations
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DOI: 10.1007/s12567-021-00365-5
Abstract: In the last decade, self-healing materials have become extremely appealing for the field of space applications, due to their technological evolution and the consequent possibility of designing space systems and structures able to repair autonomously… read more here.
Keywords: applications overview; healing materials; materials space; space applications ... See more keywords
Irradiation dose affects the composition of organic refractory materials in space
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DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039528
Abstract: Context. Near- and mid-infrared observations have revealed the presence of organic refractory materials in the Solar System, in cometary nuclei and on the surface of centaurs, Kuiper-belt and trans-neptunian objects. In these astrophysical environments, organic… read more here.
Keywords: composition organic; materials space; refractory materials; organic refractory ... See more keywords