Material-first design
How consolidating functional requirements into the composite system can reduce added mass, extra interfaces, and qualification risk.
Advanced Carbons Council webinar
Nanocarbon Composites for Space
A recorded technical session on using precisely dispersed and functionalized nanocarbons to solve electromagnetic, electrostatic, RF, dielectric, magnetic, and optical constraints at the material level for space hardware.
Recorded May 28, 2026All Webinars
Session overview
Space hardware teams face growing electromagnetic, electrostatic, RF, optical, mass, schedule, and qualification constraints at the same time. This recorded session frames those requirements as material-design problems instead of a stack of after-the-fact fixes.
Elect Nano discusses how precisely dispersed and functionalized nanocarbons, including dCNTs and other nanoscale additives, can tune conductivity, shielding effectiveness, RF absorption, dielectric and magnetic response, ESD protection, and optical absorptance directly into composite systems.
The session connects those principles to production-ready injection molding compounds, broadband absorbing coatings, low-reflectance optical surfaces, and electrically functional adhesives developed with the real constraints of space qualification in mind.
Topics covered
Material-level strategies for space hardware constraints.
EMI, ESD, and RF response
How nanocarbon loading, dispersion, and functionalization influence shielding, electrostatic control, broadband absorption, and antenna-adjacent material behavior.
Dielectric, magnetic, and optical tuning
How electrical, magnetic, and optical properties can be adjusted for waveguides, absorbers, low-reflectance surfaces, and space-facing hardware.
Production formats
How the same material strategy can show up in molded compounds, absorbing coatings, optical surfaces, and electrically functional adhesives.
Qualification constraints
How materials engineers, systems architects, and program managers can evaluate nano-engineered composites against mission, schedule, and flight-hardware constraints.
Material sample review
Discuss nanocarbon composites for your space hardware.
Share your electrical, RF, optical, mechanical, mass, and qualification constraints so Elect Nano can help define a practical material evaluation path.