@unpublished{upm53258, booktitle = {EPSC European Planetary Science Congress}, year = {2017}, author = {Isabel Montero and Juan Ram{\'o}n Sanmart{\'i}n Losada}, title = {On aluminum tapes treated for missions at Jupiter}, month = {September}, url = {https://oa.upm.es/53258/}, abstract = {Electrodynamic tethers are effective at Jupiter because of its high magnetic field, the length-averaged tether current lying well below its high short-circuit bound for dimensions of interest. With aluminium tethers having thermal emissivity as low as 0.03 at a temperature of 300 K, over the entire spectrum, they present inadequate heat dissipation in the termal infrared region. A nanostructured coating with high thermal-emissivity and high conductivity, as compared to Al and Al2O3 respectively, is being developed in the present work for tethers exposed to the hard conditions at Jovian operation.} }