Titles:

• Synergies between Space Research and Space Operations - Examples from the International Space Station  January 2007

• Comparison of the Atomic Oxygen Erosion Depth and Cone Height of Various Materials at Hyperthermal Energy   June 2006

• MISSE PEACE Polymers Atomic Oxygen Erosion Results  June 2006
  

• Ground-to-Space Effective Atomic Oxygen Fluence Correlation for DC 93-500 Silicone  March-April 2006

• Solar Effects on Tensile and Optical Properties of Hubble Space Telescope Silver-Teflon Insulation  2006

• Determination of Ground-Laboratory to In-Space Effective Atomic Oxygen Fluence for DC 93-500 Silicone  2006
  
  
• Fast Three-Dimensional Modeling of Atomic Oxygen Undercutting of Protected Polymers   May-June 2004

• Space Flight Experiments to Measure Polymer Erosion and Contamination on Spacecraft  June 2002
   
• Techniques for Measuring Low Earth Orbital Atomic Oxygen Erosion of Polymers  May 2002
   
• Issues and Consequences of Atomic Oxygen Undercutting of Protected Polymers in Low Earth Orbit  May 2002
   
• MISSE PEACE Polymers: An International Space Station Environmental Exposure Experiment  October 2001
   
• Exposure of Polymer Film Thermal Control Materials on the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE)  October 2001
   
• Modeling of Transmittance Degradation Caused by Optical Surface Contamination by Atomic Oxygen Reaction With Adsorbed Silicones  June 2001
   
• Hubble Space Telescope Third Servicing Mission Retrieved Metallized Teflon FEP Analysis  May 2001
   
• Mechanical Properties of Teflon® FEP Retrieved From the Hubble Space Telescope  May 2001
   
• Evaluation of Optical Degradation of Aluminized Sapphire Flown on Russian Mir Space Station  April 2001
   
• Thermal Contributions to the Degradation of Teflon FEP on the Hubble Space Telescope  2001
   
• A Sensitive Technique Using Atomic Force Microscopy to Measure the Low Earth Orbit Atomic Oxygen Erosion of Polymers  December 2000
   
• Prediction and Measurement of the Atomic Oxygen Erosion Yield of Polymers in Low Earth Orbital Flight  June 2000
   
• Issues and Effects of Atomic Oxygen Interactions With Silicone Contamination on Spacecraft in Low Earth Orbit  May 2000
   
• Environmental Exposure Conditions for Teflon FEP on the Hubble Space Telescope  March 2000
   
• Insights into the Damage Mechanism of Teflon FEP from the Hubble Space Telescope  2000
   
• Analyses of Contaminated Solar Array Handrail Samples Retrieved from Mir  August 1999
   
• A Space Experiment to Measure the Atomic Oxygen Erosion of Polymers and Demonstrate a Technique to Identify Sources of Silicone Contamination  August 1999
   
• Consequences of Atomic Oxygen Interaction with Silicone and Silicone Contamination on Surfaces in Low Earth Orbit  July 1999
   
• Environmental Exposure Conditions for Teflon FEP on the Hubble Space Telescope  May 1999
   
• Effects of Heating on Teflon® FEP Thermal Control Material from the Hubble Space Telescope  May 1999
   
• Simulated Solar Flare X-Ray and Thermal Cycling Durability Evaluation of Hubble Space Telescope Thermal Control Candidate Replacement Materials  May 1999
   
• Hubble Space Telescope Metallized Teflon® FEP Thermal Control Materials: On Orbit Degradation and Post-Retrieval Analysis  March 1999
   
• Evaluation of Space Power Materials Flown on the Passive Optical Sample Assembly  1999
   
• Mechanical Properties Degradation of Teflon FEP Returned from the Hubble Space Telescope  January 1998
   
• Analysis of Retrieved Hubble Space Telescope Thermal Control Materials  1998
   
• Investigation of Teflon FEP Embrittlement on Spacecraft in Low Earth Orbit  June 1997
   
• Monte Carlo Computational Techniques for Prediction of Atomic Oxygen Erosion of Materials  May 1996
   
• Durability of Intercalated Graphite Epoxy Composites in Low Earth Orbit  March 1996

• Durability of Intercalated Graphite Epoxy Composits in Low Earth Orbit  February 1996
   
• Prediction of In-Space Durability of protected Polymers Based on Ground Laboratory Thermal Energy Atomic Oxygen  1996
   
• Environmental Durability Issues for Solar Power Systems in Low Earth Orbit  March 1995
   
• Degradation of FEP Thermal Control Materials Returned from the Hubble Space Telescope  1995
   
• A Comparison of Atomic Oxygen Erosion Yields of Carbon and Selected Polymers Exposed in Ground Based Facilities and in Low Earth Orbit  June 1994
   
• Atomic Oxygen Interaction at Defect Sites in Protective Coatings on Polymers Flown on LDEF  1994
   
• Atomic Oxygen Interactions with Protected Organic Materials on the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) 1993
   
• Atomic Oxygen Undercutting of Long Duration Exposure Facility Aluminized Kapton Multilayer Insulation  June 1991

J. M. Tate, J. K. Bartlett, J. A. Robinson, C. C. Maender, L. Putcha, S. M. Smith, M. A. Bowman, S. A. Dulchavsky, A. E. Sargsyan, S. K. Miller, B. A. Banks, K. K. deGroh and D. Tsui, “Synergies between Space Research and Space Operations - Examples from the International Space Station” Presented at the 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 8-11, 2007, Reno, Nevada, AIAA Paper # AIAA 2007-547 (January 2007).

Waters, D. L., Banks, B. A., Thorson, S.D., de Groh, K., and Miller, S. K., “Comparison of the Atomic Oxygen Erosion Depth and Cone Height of Various Materials at Hyperthermal Energy”, Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium on Materials in a Space Environment & 8th International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures in a Space Environment, Collioure, France, June 19 – 23, 2006

K. K. de Groh, B. A. Banks, C. E. McCarthy, R. N. Rucker, L. M. Roberts and L. A. Berger, “MISSE PEACE Polymers Atomic Oxygen Erosion Results” in the proceedings of the 2006 National Space & Missile Materials Symposium in conjunction with the 2006 MISSE Post-Retrieval Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 26 - 30, 2006; also NASA TM-2006-214482

K. K. de Groh, B. A. Banks and D. Ma, “Determination of Ground-Laboratory to In-Space Effective Atomic Oxygen Fluence for DC 93-500 Silicone,” in Space Technology Proceedings, Protection of Materials and Structures from the Space Environment, Proceedings of the 7th International Space Conference, ICPMSE-7, Ed. J. I. Kleiman, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006

Lillis, M. C., Youngstrom, E. E., Marx, L. M., Hammerstrom, A. M., Finefrock, K. D., Youngstrom, C. A., Kaminski, C., Fine, E. S., Hunt, P. K., de Groh, K. K., Banks, B. A., and Sechkar, E. A., “Space Flight Experiments to Measure Polymer Erosion and Contamination on Spacecraft,” NASA TM-2002-211553, June 2002.

Blackwood, J. R., Townsend, J. A., Hansen, P. A., McClendon, M. W., Dever, J. A., de Groh, K. K., Reed, B. B., He, C. C., and Peters, W. C., “Hubble Space Telescope Third Servicing Mission Retrieved Metallized Teflon FEP Analysis,” Proceedings of the SAMPE 2001 Conference, pp. 1797-1810, Long Beach, CA, May 6-10, 2001.

Dever, J. A., de Groh, K. K., Messer, R. K., McClendon, M. W., Viens, M., Wang, L. L., and Gummow, J. D., “Mechanical Properties of Teflon® FEP Retrieved From the Hubble Space Telescope,” High Performance Polymers, vol 13, No 3, pp S373-S390, September 2001.  Also appears in Proceedings of the 46th International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition.  Science of Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Series, vol 46, Long Beach, California, May 6-10, 2001.  Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, pp 1811-1825, 2001-2002.

de Groh, K. K., Banks, B. A., Clark, G. W., Hammerstrom, A. M., Youngstrom, E. E., Kaminski, C., Fine, E. S. and Marx, L. M., “A Sensitive Technique Using Atomic Force Microscopy to Measure the Low Earth Orbit Atomic Oxygen Erosion of Polymers,” presented at the Poly Millennial 2000 Conference, Kona, HI, December 9-13, 2000; also appears in:  NASA TM-2001-211346 (Dec. 2001).

 

Dever, J. A., de Groh, K. K., Banks, B. A., Townsend, J. A., Barth, J. L., Thomson, S., Gregory, T., and Savage, W., “Environmental Exposure Conditions for Teflon FEP on the Hubble Space Telescope,” High Performance Polymers, 12, No. 1, pp 125-139, March 2000. Also appears in Science of Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Series, vol 44, pp 999-1013 (1999).

Banks, B. A., de Groh, K. K., Baney-Barton, E.,Sechkar, E. A., Hunt, P. K., Willoughby, A., Bemer, M., Hope, S., Koo, J., Kaminski, C., and Youngstrom, E., "A Space Experiment to Measure the Atomic Oxygen Erosion of Polymers and Demonstrate a Technique to Identify Sources of Silicone Contamination", prepared for the 34th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (IECEC) sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Aug. 1-5, 1999.

Dever, J. A., de Groh, K. K., Banks, B. A., Townsends, J. A., Barth, J. L., Thomson, S., Gregory, and T., Savage, W., "Environmental Exposure Conditions for Teflon FEP on the Hubble Space Telescope", prepared for the 44th International SAMPE Symposium, May 23-27, 1999.

de Groh, K. K., Gaier, J. R., Hall, R. L., Norris, M. J., Espe, M. P., and Cato, D. R., "Effects of Heating on Teflon® FEP Thermal Control Material from the Hubble Space Telescope", prepared for the 44th International Symposium and Exhibition sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering, Long Beach, California, May 23-27, 1999.

de Groh, K. K., Banks, B. A., Sechkar, E. A., and Scheiman, D. A., "Simulated Solar Flare X-Ray and Thermal Cycling Durability Evaluation of Hubble Space Telescope Thermal Control Candidate Replacement Materials", prepared for the 4th International Space Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures from the LEO Space Environment sponsored by the University of Toronto and the Institute for Aerospace Studies, Toronto, Canada, May 23-24, 1999.

Townsend, J. A., Hansen, P. A., Dever, J. A., de Groh, K. K., Banks, B. A., Wang, L., and He, C., "Hubble Space Telescope Metallized Teflon® FEP Thermal Control Materials: On Orbit Degradation and Post-Retrieval Analysis", High Performance Polymers, 11, No. 1, pp.81-100, March, 1999.

Dever, J. A., de Groh, K. K., Townsend, J. A., and Wang, L. L., "Mechanical Properties Degradation of Teflon FEP Returned from the Hubble Space Telescope", AIAA Paper No. 98-0895, NASA TM-1998-206618, Jan. 1998.

Townsend, J. A., Hansen, P. A., Dever, J. A., and Triolo, J. J., "Analysis of Retrieved Hubble Space Telescope Thermal Control Materials", Science of Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Series, 43, pp. 582-93, 1998.

de Groh, K. K. and Smith, D. C., "Investigation of Teflon FEP Embrittlement on Spacecraft in Low Earth Orbit", prepared for the 7th International Symposium on Materials in a Space Environment cosponsored by ONERA, CERT, and ESA/ESTEC, Toulouse, France, June 16-20, 1997, NASA-TM-113153.

Banks, B. A. and Stueber, T. J., "Monte Carlo Computational Techniques for Prediction of Atomic Oxygen Erosion of Materials", presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computer Modeling of Electronic and Atomic Processes in Solids, Wroclaw, Poland, May 20-23, 1996.

Banks, B. A., de Groh, K. K., Rutledge, S. K., and Difilippo, F. J., "Prediction of In-Space Durability of protected Polymers Based on Ground Laboratory Thermal Energy Atomic Oxygen", Protection of Materials and Structures in the Low Earth Orbit Space Environment, p. 89-100, proceedings of ICPMSE-3 Third International Space Conference, 1996, NASA-TM-107209.

Banks, B. A., de Groh, K. K., Auer, B. M., Gebauer, L., and LaMouraux, C., "Atomic Oxygen Interaction at Defect Sites in Protective Coatings on Polymers Flown on LDEF", LDEF Materials Results for Spacecraft Applications, NASA CP-3257, 1994, p.143-158.

Banks, B. A., de Groh, K. K., Bucholz, J. L., and Cales, M. R., "Atomic Oxygen Interactions with Protected Organic Materials on the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF)", LDEF-69 Months in Space, Third Post-Retrieval Symposium, NASA CP-3275, Part 2, 1993, p.737-753.

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