SURFACE INNOVATIONS

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TECHNOLOGY
Liquid Repellency	The global market for functional surfaces exceeds $50 billion per annum (US Department of Energy). A key driver
Hydrophilicity	is the added value that can be imparted to commercial products by tailoring their surface properties. For example,
Biolinkers	the cleanliness of optical lenses, the feel of fabrics, the resistance of biomedical devices to bacteria, the speed of
Antibacterial	computer hard disks, and even the wear of car brake pads are all governed by their surface functionality.
Non-Fouling
	At present high performance functional coatings can only be manufactured by either “wet” solvent-based, complex, substrate-specific processes, or using slow, “dry” vapour-deposition technologies. Existing multi-step “wet” treatments involve environmentally unfriendly chemicals and solvents. Whilst “dry” processing has been hindered by the axiomatic observation that increased production speeds can only be achieved at the expense of coating performance. Hence the highly functionalized coatings (i.e. abundant in a selected chemical group) sought by many of today’s end-users (e.g. the microarray sector) are generally impossible to fabricate at industrially relevant speeds. Surface Innovations Limited (SIL) has developed a novel, solventless nanolayering process, named “Atomized-Spray Plasma Deposition” (ASPD). The versatility, speed, and efficacy of ASPD make it capable of producing a wide variety of thin, high quality, functional coatings, at throughputs attractive to a large number of markets. This approach enables lost-cost substrates to exhibit the surface properties of far more expensive materials.

Textiles

Healthcare

Bioarrays

Filtration