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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author JHK would like to take this opportunity
to thank all our current and former KRG members
for contributing their talents and efforts to a
successful R&D of TPS materials in our research
group. The KRG team would like to thank DoD
(AFOSR, AFRL, AFC, AMDEC, ARL, DLA, DTRA,
MDA, NAVAIR, NAWC, NAVSEA, NRL, NSWC, &
ONR), NASA, and private companies to support
the " TPS Materials Research and Development
at UT Austin & KAI. " Special thanks are to Stan A.
Bouslog, Steven Del Papa et al. of NASA Johnson
Space Center for their continuous support to our
research group in numerous research areas. Special
thanks are also due to Dr. Josh Monk, Dr. Mairead
Stackpoole et al. of NASA Ames Research Center in
the MR and microstructure modeling; and Dr. Mark
Ewing of NGC in the MR modeling research areas.
Dr. Dula Parkinson et al. of LBNL/ALS for their
supporting in using Beamline 8.3.2 Synchrotron
Hard X-ray µ-CT to characterize microstructures
of TPS materials. This research used resources of
the Advanced Light Source which is a DoE Office of
Science User Facility under contract no. DE-AC0205CH11231.
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