Solving Signal Interference Challenges in Aerospace and Defense Electronics

As the complexity of signal challenges in aerospace and defense technology increases, design engineers need to creatively combine materials to solve multiple problems at once. Comolding, which involves combining two uncured elastomers with different electrical properties into one homogeneous material or molding elastomers with metal, fabric or composite structures, is an innovative way to address these challenges.

There are many ways to use comolding in aerospace and defense applications. For example:

Comolding of elastomeric absorbers to conductive elastomers.

Molding low dielectric or conductive layers to an absorber or to an absorbing layer.

Molding nonconductive layers to conductive layers.

Molding conductive elastomers directly to metal housings or shielding.

Cocuring absorbing elastomers within prepreg composite structures.

Calendaring elastomers for molding with conductive or abrasion resistant fabrics.