Potential NASA Commercial Applications: Non-NASA applications of Metal Rubber
TM 'sensor skin' arrays include 1. measurement of skin friction during the research and development of advanced commercial aircraft and hydrocraft by universities, industry, and other non-NASA government agencies, 2. instrumentation of air and water flow as part of industrial process control, 3. measurement of flow effects in energy production systems such as wind and water-driven turbines, and ocean wave-based electrical generators, 4. instrumentation in environmental monitoring, such as determination of air flow interactions with buildings and bridges, and water flow interactions with levies, and erosion control rip-rap, and 5. tactile sensor arrays to measure and map forces in biomedical prostheses. Additional applications of Metal Rubber
TM materials themselves include as lightweight replacements for conventional tin-lead solder for the mechanical, electrical and thermal interconnection of electronic and mechanical components, in high performance, highly flexible, mechanically robust and lightweight electronic flex circuits, flexible displays and smart electronic fabrics, as low modulus conducting electrodes for high strain mechanical actuator and sensor devices, such as in medical prostheses, and as low-weight, electrically conductive and mechanically flexible coatings for systems requiring physically-robust electromagnetic shielding or ground planes.
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