SBIR/STTR Research Award
Highly Elastomeric Metal Rubber™ Sealants with Superb Electromagnetic Integrity
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- NANOSONIC INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2007-04-30
- Contract end date
- 2008-08-30
- UEI
- ZK7ECNMN7MM5
- Solicitation number
- 2007.1
- Topic code
- AF071-122
Research abstract
NanoSonic has developed Metal Rubber™, a revolutionary nanocomposite with bulk resistivity (up to 2 x 10-5 ∙cm) that can be repeatedly strained and maintain electromagnetic integrity. Unlike typical nanocomposites that require 20-80 volume % filler (Ag flake) or 1-5 volume % for carbon nanotubes; NanoSonic uses novel processing methods to achieve electrical percolation with 1000 % strain, up to 450 °C, and after swelling for 7 days in harsh solvents). The proposed nanocomposites have demonstrated shielding effectiveness up to 70 dB measured from 250MHz to 18GHz. NanoSonic would work with Northrop Grumman on performance metrics, materials property evaluation for possible integration on aircraft such as the F-35 and N-UCAS.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Highly Elastomeric Metal Rubber™ Sealants with Superb Electromagnetic Integrity
- Flexible Conductive Caulking Material
Research funding history
469 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1998–2026). Reported award amounts total $155,330,549. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency