Innovative Drying Via Lightweight Structure Coating

Potential Commercial Applications: Office air conditioning, climate control products and others. Keywords: Dehumidifying, air-drying, surface coatings, Purpose: NASA JSC seeks like-minded partners to help cooperatively develop (co-develop) Innovative Air Drying Via Lightweight Structure Coatings. As NASA ventures from Low Earth Orbit into deep space, longevity and air scrubbing concerns for astronauts increase. Lightweight structures have been developed that can support thin films of coatings for increased air-drying. The challenge arises in developing and testing surface coating materials with dehumidifying capabilities for various lightweight structures. NASA seeks unique surface coating ideas and capabilities, knowledge sharing opportunities, or potential partnership arrangements. This technology may be of interest to other research such as thin film applications as well as office air conditioning and climate control. Partners can potentially benefit from NASA's unique capabilities, technology advancements, and expertise. In addition, new Intellectual Property (IP) may be created through a collaboration that would enable the partner to commercialize the technology for other applications such as office air conditioning and climate control products. In previous projects, the NASA work fully characterizing a research grade material (as part of the flight hardware qualification process) that helped mature the technology of the commercial product being developed. R&D Status: Traditional structures similar to lightweight heat exchangers have been coated. The resulting technology can be heated to regeneration temperatures approximately 10 times faster than pelletized sorbents, but the capacity of the coated structures is 100 times less. An order of magnitude improvement in the amount of surface area for a given thermal mass would greatly advance the State of the Art for materials with dehumidifying capabilities. To respond to this announcement, please use the Statement of Interest Form, copy and paste link https://nasajsc.secure.force.com/StatementofInterest To view all Co-Development and Partnering Opportunities with the NASA Johnson Space Center please visit our website, copy and paste link http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/partnerships/JSC-Partnership-Gateway