Company Overview

Aculon, Inc. commercializes unique surface and interfacial coatings leveraging nanotechnology discoveries made at Princeton University.  The Princeton intellectual property includes two issued patents and seven pending applications, with Aculon as the exclusive worldwide licensee for non-biological applications.  Aculon has substantially strengthened its IP position with 15 new inventions beyond the original Princeton discoveries. In total, Aculon owns and licensees a portfolio of 25 exclusive, global patents.

The Company’s breakthrough technology enables coatings which outperform all known alternatives in characteristics such as adhesion, stain resistance, scratch resistance and economics.  Equally important, Aculon's know-how includes industrial scale processes to efficiently manufacture and apply these novel coatings.

Aculon’s technology is exceptionally versatile and enables several platforms of high-value commercial opportunities.  At present, the Company is focused on three platforms: (1) easy-clean, anti-smudge coatings for eyeglasses and other optical surfaces such as flat panel displays, and stainless steel; (2) coatings that boost adhesion strength to difficult-to-adhere-to surfaces such as glass, certain metals and plastics; and (3) coatings that improve the functionality of electronic devices such as displays, electrolytic capacitors and printed circuit boards.

The Enabling Chemistry

Aculon technology generates highly ordered nano-scale films called Self-Assembled Monolayers of Phosphonates (SAMPs), which feature an unprecedented mechanism for coating and adhering to a wide variety of substrates. Aculon’s SAMPs form highly ordered films on oxide-containing surfaces while forming chemical bonds with substantially all of the surface oxygen atoms.  In contrast, organo-silanes form bonds only with surface hydroxyl groups, and these comprise less than 10% of the available surface oxygen.  Because of this chemistry difference, Aculon SAMs have up to ten times the density and functionality of competitive technology.  This high density of chemical bonds, coupled with superior chemical stability, enables improved surface properties and differentiates Aculon from other alternatives. 

These SAMPs can be chemically modified to impart a variety of properties including oil and water repellency, improved adhesion, chemical reactivity, and electrical conductivity.  The chemistry can deliver value and solve a variety of OEM and consumer problems.