Lightweight multifunctional composite materials will be used for the fuel tanks of other commercial and military airplane and vehicles. Other applications which benefit from the use of advanced composite include in protective structure materials from high impact, blast mitigation and ballistic/fragment protection, and EM shielding such as military and commercial building, aerospace, vehicles, ship, armor. Additional applications may include medical, recreational, and sports equipments and coating materials. The optimized proposed composite material is expected to demonstrate excellent multifunctional performance and durability at extreme environments reducing the weight of aeronautic and aerospace vehicle components. Decreasing the weight of a vehicle while improving materials performance will improve vehicle fuel efficiency and safety. The composite materials would be potentially applicable to EDS propellant tanks, Altair propellant tanks, lunar cryogenic storage tanks, Ares V tanks, and satellite propellant tanks. Other space and aerospace applications such as space and aerospace structure and engine components and turbine may be found which require highly tough, low CTE composite matrixes
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