Nano for space

V.Е. Panin, V.P. Sergeev

In #2 (14), 2007, "Science First Hand" wrote about the discovery made by Tomsk scientists: the effect of a "chess board" in mechanical stress distribution at the interface of two media. Eighteen months later, experts from the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science SB RAS (Tomsk) together with the Keldysh Research Center (Moscow) used this effect as the base for designing nanostructured heat-resistant coatings for rocket-space technology