Mechanism and operation parameters of a plasma-driven micro-particle accelerator

There is a large amount of micro debris ranging between millimeters and micrometers in space, which has significant influence on the reliability and life of spacecrafts through long-duration integrated impacts and has to be considered in designing a vehicle’s suitability to the space environment. In order to simulate the micro-impacts on exposed materials, a plasma-driven micro-particle accelerator was developed. The major processes, including the acceleration, compression and ejection of plasmas, were mode...     

Cylindrical PCL brushes on the surface of lanthanum hydroxide nanowires by ring-opening polymerization

A core-shell hybrid nanostructure,a hard core of single-crystalline lanthanum hydroxide nanowires and a soft shell of brushes of poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL), has been successfully prepared by ring-opening polymerization (ROP) on the surface of nanowires. Such special structures were proved by TEM images. Meanwhile, the thickness of polymer layers was measured. The chemical component and the grafted PCL quantity of the sample were characterized by FTIR and TGA, which provides a simple and universal method to...     

空间微小碎片撞击对太阳电池表面损伤的评估方法

利用等离子体驱动微小碎片加速器, 开展空间微小碎片撞击对太阳电池表面损伤的地面模拟实验, 得到了微小碎片撞击对太阳电池表面损伤的平均表面损伤系数和撞击损伤方程, 并分别提出了利用平均表面损伤系数和撞击损伤方程评估空间微小碎片撞击对太阳电池表面损伤的评估方法. 结合master2005空间碎片分布模式计算得到的空间微小碎片分布规律, 采用这两种评估方法分别对800 km轨道高度航天器太阳电池遭受微小碎片撞击引起的表面损伤率进行了评估. 计算结果表明这两种方法能够相互验证, 并且发现空间微小碎片撞击对太阳电池的表面损伤主要由5~500 μm碎片撞击引起.