Insertion Of Novel Technologies: Enabling New Missions And Functionality Through Nanotechnology
- Paper number
IAC-07-E5.1.03
- Author
Mr. David Lackner, Bio | Info | Nano R&D Institute, United States
- Year
2007
- Abstract
Nanotechnology, the characterization and manipulation of matter at the nanoscale, has been a largely government funded research activity for the first five years since the US National Nanotechnology Initiative was formed. In 2007, one can point to nano-enabled products, and maturing development activities within large corporate labs, as well as startups. By 2010, there will be a number of TRL 3+ technologies enabling fundamental changes in the industries that see fit to adopt them. The industry that stands to gain more than any other - as these technologies pierce significant core issues: weight, strength, thermal, adaptivity, distribution, fault tolerance - is aerospace. This paper focuses on the insertion of nanotechnology into aerospace products and projects, and the resulting performance improvements. The author investigates - through case studies - how spin-in and spin-out will be the primary mechanism for nanotechnology transfer and deployment.
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