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Tunable Surfaces and Interfaces for Radiative Control on Space Exploration Vehicles and Habitats

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Tunable Surfaces and Interfaces for Radiative Control on Space Exploration Vehicles and Habitats

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  • Author: Zihao (Richard) Zhang
This white paper highlights the important role of radiative surfaces responsive to solar irradiation and the cosmic thermal sink of spaceflight components in the vacuum environment. Engineered static coatings consisting of temperature and electronic transition metal-oxide solids with nanoscale patterning can manage energy exchange and transport in and around spacecraft, its power electronics, and humans in space. Our decadal mission is to understand, create, and optimize vacuum surface coatings and interfaces with broad spectral response using scalable microscale-feature tunable materials.

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