{"id":13458,"date":"2021-07-22T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=13458"},"modified":"2021-07-22T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:12:28","slug":"self-healing-materials-tested-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/self-healing-materials-tested-international-space-station\/13458\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-healing materials to be tested on the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"
Innovative self-healing materials have been developed for testing on the International Space Station by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.<\/h2>\n
Currently, many materials with aerospace functions \u2013 including polymers \u2013 are subject to degrading and eroding with prolonged exposure to atomic oxygen, ultraviolet radiation, and extreme temperature cycling in outer space.<\/p>\n
As well as this, due to orbiting spacecraft, like the International Space Station (ISS), journeying through space at around 18,000 miles per hour, micrometeoroids and various space debris present a serious danger to the structural durability of lightweight space structures comprised of polymers and their composites.<\/p>\n
Self-healing materials for use in space structures<\/h3>\n