US 11,795,536 B2
Method of coating high atomic number metals onto oxygen or hydroxyl rich surfaces
Donald L. Thomsen, III, Yorktown, VA (US); Sankara N. Sankaran, Yorktown, VA (US); and Joel A. Alexa, Hampton, VA (US)
Assigned to UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA, Washington, DC (US)
Filed by UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA, Washington, DC (US)
Filed on Jul. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/938,177.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/878,057, filed on Jul. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0025047 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. C23C 4/08 (2016.01); C23C 4/02 (2006.01); C23C 4/134 (2016.01); B32B 15/04 (2006.01)
CPC C23C 4/08 (2013.01) [B32B 15/043 (2013.01); C23C 4/02 (2013.01); C23C 4/134 (2016.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for making a layered material, comprising:
depositing a tie down layer comprising particles of at least one of titanium or a titanium alloy onto a first surface of base material, the base material comprising a glass fabric; and
depositing a high atomic number metal layer onto the first surface after depositing the tie down layer comprising particles of at least one of tantalum or a tantalum alloy.