Easy Clean Coating Technology
Our patented easy clean coating treatments improve performance of virtually any product via easy-to-apply nanoscale treatments that can bond with a wide array of surfaces. Together we create winning easy to clean products!
Easy to Clean. Oil/Water Repellent. Long lasting performance.
Aculon® has a variety of surface modification technologies capable of functionalizing numerous substrate types to exhibit easy to clean behavior. Aculon’s® easy clean coatings and treatments are highly repellent to water, oil, solvent, grease, & adhesives/resins offering numerous performance benefits. In addition these coatings are ultra thin (nanoscale), optically clear and quite durable. There are numerous performance advantages to having an easy clean surface on countless applications. Want to learn more? Reach out to us at +1-858-350-9499 or contact us here to see how we can help!
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Real World Applications
Countless electronics applications benefit from having an easy clean functionalized surfaces. A broad range of technologies at our disposal means we can tackle most any electronics repellency challenge.
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Numerous oil & gas applications benefit from easy clean functional treatments. Applications include treatment of optics, analytical equipement, & industrial equipment for anti fouling and reduced cleaning.
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There are countless applications in numerous industries that can benefit from a easy to clean surface. Chances are if you have an application which can benefit from a easy clean treatment, we have looked at it before and can help.
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Aculon® surface modification technologies can be utilized for numerous medical applications, enabling unique performance, process simplification and excellent value across a broad range of medical surfaces and applications.
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How it Works
Surfaces
Aculon has a wide variety of technologies at our disposal meaning that we can treat nearly any surface or substrate. This includes, but is not limited to metals, polymers, semiconductors, ceramics, and glass. The type of substrate will impact the technology options which can be utilized in addition to cleaning or other processing steps that may be required. In general due to the presence of a surface oxide layer we find the highest likelihood of success with metals, ceramics, glass, and semiconductors.
Performance
Our easy clean technologies will yield a robust a long lasting easy to clean surface. Typical oil contact angles (measurement of surface energy) are in the 75°-85° range with water contact angles in the range of 110°-120°. These treatments are nanoscale, as thin as 2-4 nm thin leaving your part visually unchanged and optically clear. A self assembling process ensures a uniform and even treatment every time!
Technology
Aculon's core technology is based around the SAMP or "Self Assembled Monolayer of Phosphonates" which is comprised of a phosphonic acid and a repellent carbon based molecule which can impart a durable easy to clean surface on oxide containing substrates. Other oleophobic options in our suite of technologies for modifying surfaces to be easy to clean are organometallics, transition metal complexs & surface growth polymers.
Durability
Treatments are chemically robust with options that can withstand most any environment or exposure condition. Treatments are thermally stable (200°-300°C+) in ambient air. Due to strong covalent bonding they are also resistant to abrasion. We have a saying that the treatment is “as strong as the underlying substrate”. If your substrate will survive the environment undamaged, our coatings will too.
Application Process
Aculon easy clean treatments are robust and scalable for high volume commercial applications. Treatments are all applied via wet chemical processes, meaning no deposition equipment, chambers, or batch processing, ever! Application options include spray, wipe, dip, jet, or dispense.
Why Easy Clean Treatments from Aculon?
We are surface modification experts who have developed and produced easy to clean surface chemistry technologies to modify a broad variety of surfaces, such as metal, glass, and polymers for nearly 20 years.
These treatments are all thin, easy to apply, safe, and non-toxic, with green options available. We have worked on thousands of easy to clean repellency applications, invested hundreds of thousand of hours solving easy clean surface related challenges. You are very likely reading this as you too have a challenge that can be solved by modifying your surface to be easy to clean. We will work directly with you on a customized easy to clean solution tailored to the unique needs of your product. Let us help you make your product better.
Want to learn more? Reach out to us at +1-858-350-9499 or contact us here to see how we can help!
