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Inside Cover, Volume 130, Issue 6
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.39093
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , cover (algebra) , volume (thermodynamics) , materials science , citation , computer science , nanotechnology , polymer science , physics , world wide web , mechanical engineering , engineering , computer security , quantum mechanics
The aggressive space environment requires high performance materials with excellent thermal, physical, proton, electron, and UV radiation resistance properties. Space solar cells must also maintain excellent transparency over long service lifetimes. Hyperbranched polycarbosiloxanes (HB‐PCSOX) and polysiloxanes (HB‐PSOX) with octafunctional polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) branchpoints are formulated with linear polysiloxanes to fabricate high‐transmission and robust nanostructured POSS materials that could be tailored to give adhesives, or rigid or flexible coatings as desired. This study by Nita Xu et al. on page 3849 was performed at Michigan Molecular Institute and EMCORE Photovoltaics, and funded by the US Air Force.