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Titus Group Develops Material that Reduces Friction and Improves Wear Life and Adhesion
NASA Technology Description
This NASA Goddard high-velocity spray method causes a rapidly solidifying metal powder and small peening particles to react during impact with a substrate surface, resulting in the metal powder bonding to the substrate. On metallic substrates, the technology favorably affects the mechanical properties of its surface.
Spin-out and Potential Spin-in Success
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In 2004, the technology was licensed to Titus Group of Spokane, Washington. The technology provided the Titus Group’s developers with ideas and the technological basis that enabled them to develop a new technology that involves altering the molecular structure of a surface metal to create an entirely new surface.
These advances positioned Titus to merge with another company (Integrated Micrometallurgical Systems [IMS]) in March 2004, and this merger has led to further advancements. The new IMS technology has achieved a 60% reduction in coefficient of friction, a 70% improvement in wear life, and has significantly improved adhesion properties.
IMS is now exploring ways of spinning this technology back to NASA.
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Contact
Innovative Partnerships Program Office
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Phone: (301) 286-5810
E-mail: techtransfer@gsfc.nasa.gov
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