Thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer nanocomposite ablatives: Characterization and performance

47th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lee, Jason C ^a   Koo, Joseph H ^b   Ezekoye, Ofodike A ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFIBER-POLYMER; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; MONTMORILLONITE NANOCLAY; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMER PROPERTIES; SOLID ROCKET MOTORS; THERMOPLASTIC POLYURETHANE ELASTOMERS; TUNABLE PROPERTIES;

ABLATION; CARBON NANOFIBERS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; PROPULSION; ROCKET ENGINES; ROCKETS;

ADDITIVES;

EID: 84880650460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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