A group of six University of Central Florida students and alums from a range of fields designed and won the Best Technical Poster award as finalists in NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u2019s recent Lunar Dust Challenge. They received the honor after NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u2019s 2021 Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge Virtual Forum in November 2021./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/n
As part of NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u2019s BIG Idea Challenge to conquer lunar dust, the project /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u2014 titled Lunar Dust Mitigating Electrostatic micro-Textured Overlay, or LETO /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u2014 provided an opportunity of a lifetime to design, form and test new innovations to get the researchers on NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u2019s radar./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/n
With the theme centered around lunar dust, the UCF team designed a space suit material overlay for astronauts performing space exploration. The moon/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u2019s surface is covered in sharp, hazardous lunar dust that could be a danger to people and equipment./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/n /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u201cOur group was familiar with creating polymer-based composite materials, so we saw it as a great opportunity to further expand our knowledge in the field and contribute to the space industry,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u201d says team member Yuen Yee Li Sip /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u201917/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u201919MS, a Ph.D. student studying materials science and engineering. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u201cI greatly appreciate the research that I do, to be able to combine two or more components in one and create new materials with various properties./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/125542/n