Summary Record of the Workshop on Polymer Materials Research August 30-31, 1999, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Session 2 Discussion Topics
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providing advanced capability for energy conversion and storage. Fanner described several opportunities for key enabling developments in polymers with space applications: Improved Structural Materials Farmer challenged the workshop to consider ways to meet the goal of reducing both cost and weight of space structures by 50 percent by 2010.
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. Opportunities Workshop participants identified the following specific research opportunities for polymers for space applications: .
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Dr. Epstein identified a number of technological issues he thought should be addressed to determine the potential of functional polymers: processing methods to achieve ultimate properties constituents with sufficient chemical purity control of molecular weight determination of ultimate functional capabilities 6
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using tethered initiators to "grow" coatings · using and optimizing surface controls for fabricating multilayer functional polymers developing processes to control property gradients in fimctional polymers · applying combinatorial methods to investigate new materials Workshop participants identified the following goals for promising applications: processible, stable polymer magnets/films for space applications controlled polymer electroluminescence for flexible displays conductive polymers with conductivity greater than copper in polymers functional properties that can be tuned in real time in response to the use environment smart magnet materials (e.g., photoresponsive magnets)
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Ruth Pachter (AFRL/ME) introduced an idea that the Air Force has been developing to establish a center for accelerated maturation of materials.
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the development of data libraries in polymer science by using combinatorial methods the development of nanoscale physical property measurements Barriers development: Workshop participants identified the following barriers to accelerated potential conflicts of interest concerns about protecting intellectual property and nondisclosure potential that directed research might lure people away from exploratory research FUTURE TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES In his introduction, Douglas S Dudis (AFRL/ML)
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the development of microblock polymers the development of polymers that act as transducers the addition of functionalized groups to block copolymers Barriers research: Workshop participants identified the following barriers to pursuing innovative 10 .
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Opportunities Workshop participants identified the following research opportunities for structural polymers: . functionalization of structural polymers (e.g., high refractive index)
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textile membrane systems (e.g., siloxane material) multimechanism curing approach crosslinkable thermoplastics photopolymerization processes (e.g., determine levels of glass transition temperature ~Tg]
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