SBIR/STTR Research Award
Nanocomposite Lightning protection
Award amount
$67,975Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1998Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Recipient company
- Applied Sciences Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- KFNNH3CBM7Q9
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Ships made from non-metallic materials may be lightweight and demonstrate low signatures, but require special lightning protection. This can be afforded using nanocomposites manufactured from carbon naofibers and durable materials such as Ethylene-Propylene-Diene Monomer (EPDM). This offers excellent electrical conductivity especially for high current pulses, but at the same time can extinguish incident electromagnetic radiation, making it a potentially low observable material.
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.
- Ceramic Fabrication with Control of Micrograin Structure via Nano Additives
- Protective Paint for Radar Absorbing Material Maintainability
- Nano Nucleation of Unique Long Range Order Materials via Seed Crystals
- Flexible, lightweight nanocomposites for EMI shielding suppression in automotive applications
- CO2 to Carbon and Water via Plasma Catalysis
Research funding history
128 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2022). Reported award amounts total $29,010,302. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Environmental Protection Agency