Applications:

• Improved heat transfer for space power system radiator surfaces
  
• Increased cellular attachment to implants
  
• Textured surfaces for cell culturing
  
• Reduced fibrous capsule contracture in soft tissue implants
  
• Improved fixation of orthopaedic implants
  
• Increased diffuse component for light transmittance
  
• Uniform fiber optic illumination for photodynamic cancer therapy
  
• Alteration of wettability
  
• Reduced friction surfaces for elastomers
  
• Increased solar absorptance
  
• Increased thermal emittance
  
• Immunity of optical surfaces to degradation caused by chemical contamination
  
• Improved adhesive bonding of polymers, metals, and composites
  
• Improved paintability
  
• Catalytic surfaces
  
• Arc proof solar array surfaces
  
• High emittance heat receiver and radiator surfaces
  

Facilities:

• Arc Texturing Facility
  
• Ion Beam Texturing (Dual Beam Sputter Deposition Facility
  
• Electro-chemical texturing
  

Abstracts 

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