SBIR/STTR Research Award
Abrasion Resistant Coating For Composite Substrates
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- NANOSPERSE LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2014-06-17
- Contract end date
- 2015-02-13
- UEI
- H29BSG5KRN89
- Solicitation number
- 2014.1
- Topic code
- AF141-160
Research abstract
ABSTRACT: Current composite USAF platforms suffer damage during media blast stripping operations. This is a pervasive issue, with repair being laborious and costly, a material solution is needed to fill in existing damages to the composite skin and provide a protective barrier against future aggregate blasting. NanoSperse proposes to develop a spray-on, flexible, highly erosion resistant polymer system designed to fill current substrate damage and withstand multiple media stripping operations. The coating will adhere well to composite surfaces and be compatible with current USAF primers. VOC content will be designed to meet all applicable state and federal regulations and be usable in both portable and spray hanger applications. NanoSperse has the formulating resources to design a successful coating for this application and the scaled manufacturing capacity to meet the near term delivery requirements of the Air Force BENEFIT: $4.5M savings each PDM cycle. Potential to skip two pdm cycles in addition.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Innovative Degassed, Densified, Pre-Charged Molding Compound for Rapid UAS Parts Manufacturing
- Modified Spray, Brush, and Trowel-On Highly Erosion and Impact Resistant Coating for On-Vehicle Composite Surface Application
- Innovative Discontinuous Long Fiber Molding Compound for Low Cost Platforms
- High-Z / Low-Z Layered Nano-Composite Radiation Shielding for Advanced Space Asset Protection
- Enhanced Abrasion Resistant Coating For USAF Composite Surfaces
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Abrasion Resistant Coating For Composite Substrates
- Robust, Lightweight Composite Coatings Based on Carbon Nanofibers
- Robust, Lightweight Composite Coatings Based on Carbon Nanofibers
Research funding history
7 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2014–2025). Reported award amounts total $5,224,941. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II – Direct to Phase II, Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense