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The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites to build the structures of satellites, rockets, and jet aircraft. But the life of those materials is limited by how they handle heat. A team of researchers from Florida A&M University - Florida State University College of Engineering has developed a design for a heat shield that uses carbon nanotubes and better protects those extremely fast machines.
