ABSTRACT
The development of novel polymer matrix composite materials for use in aerospace technologies is driven on a number of fronts including improved reliability, damage self-sensingmaterials, high temperature systems, improved toughness and impact resistance, and improved processing routes. Often it is the development of novel ormodifiedmatrix or fibre systemswhich allows such improvements.With a view to the next decade of development in polymer matrix composites for aerospace applications, a number of development areas will be discussed in this chapter, both those in which clear progress is already under way and some rather more speculative areas which are, as yet, the ‘glint in the eye’ of researchers.
