So much of our company’s focus is on creating superhydrophobic and oleophobic coatings. That is our bread and butter, so to speak. But, in reality, we are not just repellency coating experts; we are SURFACE MODIFICATION experts – an intentionally broad term that represents the wide breadth of our research and experience with modifying many …
Wow, even I didn’t expect the success we recently found with some advances in our NanoProof line of PCB waterproofing products. As you can see, our last post regarding NanoProof argued that conformal coatings were obsolete. If they weren’t before, they most certainly are now. We recently unveiled two new NanoProof products (7.0 & 8.0) …
New NanoProof Products- IPX7 Waterproofing Achieved! Read More »
Waterproofing electronics and PCBs has been on the minds of electronics manufacturers for years now. By now, everyone has probably seen Samsung’s popular commercial featuring Lil Wayne pouring champagne all over his cell phone (& dunking it in the fish tank) with no ill effects. Conformal coatings and expensive parylene vacuum deposition equipment have always …
Aculon recently hosted a webinar that detailed the performance and benefits of our Sapphire Repellency Treatment.
Following up on my previous video about the difference between hydrophobic and superhydrophobic coatings: I address why some of the well-known superhydrophobic coatings aren’t very durable products. As I mentioned, TRUE superhydrophobic coatings (contact angle greater than 150 degrees) are not necessary on 99% of our customers’ projects. A hydrophobic coating is almost always sufficient …
Well it seems like we are fighting a losing battle….. “Superhydrophobic” has become the common nomenclature to describe ANY surface which easily repels liquids. Sometimes it is used correctly. Most times, however, it is incorrect. A superhydrophobic coating is a coating that has a water contact angle of greater than 150 degrees and a sliding …
What is the difference between a hydrophobic and superhydrophobic coating? Read More »
YES!! Yes, the surface has to be absolutely clean for our coating to work effectively. That doesn’t mean visually free of dirt. It means free of any surface contaminants at all (even the ones you can’t see). If a customer comes back to us having purchased a hydrophobic or oleophobic coating from us and explains …
Does the Surface Have to Be Clean Before Applying a Nanocoating? Read More »
This is a question that has many different definitions (depending on who you ask), and therefore “levels” of cleanliness from visibly dirty all the way down to free of impurity at the atomic level. How much cleanliness is required depends heavily on the application; knowing what the right level is for surface coatings demands some …
