{"id":514,"date":"2017-06-17T18:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T22:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/?p=514"},"modified":"2017-06-17T18:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T22:33:43","slug":"vertically-aligned-carbon-nanotubes-as-the-sputter-resist-in-space-propulsive-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/2017\/06\/17\/vertically-aligned-carbon-nanotubes-as-the-sputter-resist-in-space-propulsive-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes as the Sputter Resist in Space Propulsive  Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CNTSpacePropulsionMRS2005.pdf\">CNTSpacePropulsionMRS2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two-types of vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes (VA-MWNTs) are<\/p>\n<p>evaluated as the protective coatings against ion erosion in electric propulsion systems. A<\/p>\n<p>series of experiments have been conducted to understand the erosion rate and erosion<\/p>\n<p>mechanism of these VA-MWNTs. These experiments were carried out with Xe<\/p>\n<p>propellant at an ion current density of 5 mA\/cm2. We found that the erosion rates of both<\/p>\n<p>types of VA-MWNTs were changing with time. Such a nonlinear erosion process is<\/p>\n<p>explained according to a possible erosion mechanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNTSpacePropulsionMRS2005 Two-types of vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes (VA-MWNTs) are evaluated as the protective coatings against ion erosion in electric propulsion systems. A series of experiments have been conducted to understand the erosion rate and erosion mechanism of these VA-MWNTs. These experiments were carried out with Xe propellant at an ion current density of 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,86,85,49,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-73","category-carbon","category-cnt","category-docs","category-ion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}