The €400,000 project is part of the ESA’s Business in Space Growth Network Program and includes the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), Satellite Applications Catapult, Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Institute of Materials Research, the National Composites Centre (NCC) and AIMPLAS.
It focuses on five advanced materials technology areas: superalloys and hybrid materials; nanomaterials; advanced ceramics; novel polymers and fibers; and functional coatings and thin film systems.
“At AIMPLAS, we’re very proud of participating in this groundbreaking program, which will allow us to explore the conditions for manufacturing new polymers and fibers in space to obtain improved advanced materials compared to products developed on Earth,” said Carolina Losada, principal investigator for the project at AIMPLAS. “Working under microgravity and vacuum conditions opens a world of possibilities for creating revolutionary next-generation materials.”
