COMMERCIALISATION CORNER | COLUMN
Nanocoatings Technology for Mass Market: How Small Firms are Embracing this Marketplace
<< Figure 1: SCHN for wood products. >>
<< Figure 2: SCHN for fabrics.. >>
Dr Steven Walsh, Distinguished Professor at the University of New Mexico and Regents Professor at UNM’s Anderson School of Management, MANCEF Board Member,
Institute Professor for Entrepreneurial Renewal at the University of Twente; Victor Chavez,
Former Technology Transfer Professional of the Year from the US Federal Laboratory Consortium; Robert Tierney, Ph.D. ABD University of Twente; Dr Shawn Liao, Kang-
Shyang Liao, Senior Scientist at the Institute for NanoEnergy at the University of Houston and
CTO of C-Voltaics; Dr Seamus Curran, Director of the Institute for NanoEnergy at the University of Houston and CEO of C-Voltaics
Dr Seamus Curran’s SCHN coating is one of the first nanotechnologies products focusing on the mass marketplace with covalently bonding nanoparticles designed to prevent degradation. As many firms and organisations have already stated, nanomaterials are likely to be the first mass marketed nanotechnology-based products. The problem with many of today’s fabric coating products is that they do not ‘wear well’ when deposited on fabrics and are not very scratch resistant when put on fabrics or other surfaces.
Most of the current nanotechnology coating solutions for repelling stains and preventing scratches on a variety of surfaces are first generation nanotechnology solutions. They are deposited so they are electro-statically or at best ionically bonded to the surfaces they are deposited on. This means that the repelling ability of many first-generation nanocoated fabrics degrades rapidly with washing or use and very few can pass normal abrasion testing. The new, second-generation nanocoatings are covalently bonded. Dr Curran’s technology led to the development of SCHN (Self-Cleaning Hydrophobic Nanocoating) nanotechnology based coatings. This process vastly improved durability, temperature range, adherence and abrasion resistance. These coatings are among the first nanocoatings product families to meet standard scratch test procedures. The SCHN 107 for glass
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