The company said its coating can hold up against use in heavy rain or a surprise dunking.
If metals or non-metals are added to the plasma at this stage, the coating can be made to act like a metallic or non-metallic compound or anything in between.
The coating can eliminate the need for blinds and can enable a business to install a heating, venting and air conditioning system that is 30% smaller than would otherwise be needed.
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Because smart skins are grown by depositing layer upon layer, the base coating can be used as a foundation for adding other ingredients to tailor the material's properties for specific purposes.
Neverwet is a superhydrophobic coating that can be used on a variety of surfaces, including use as a spray coating for clothing, the way you might use a typical waterproofing spray.
The liquid-repellent coating developed by P2i can be found on the Alcatel One Touch 997, whereas HzO just announced a partnership with Atelier Haute Communication to apply its waterproofing technology to a forthcoming limited edition TAG Heuer Android phone.
The outer coating is an acidic polymer that can withstand the harsh stomach environment.
These can be made to emit white light by coating the device with a phosphor compound that absorbs part of the blue light and re-emits it as yellow.
Using an alcohol-based cleaner is the best way to get all of the bacteria, but it can strip off the oleophobic (oil resistant) coating found on many touchscreen devices.
"Our coating method is simple, and it can be applied in the future in large-area manufacturing processes, " said Rui Zhu, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA Engineering and the paper's lead author.
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And, as well as all the environmental benefits of eliminating paint, the film-coating has the added advantage that it can save fuel by reducing the friction between the aircraft's skin and the air.
If a rock has a coating of dust, hundreds of repeated pulses from the laser can remove those layers.
Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.
Coating tools once used to put films on sheets of glass are being tweaked so they can also rapidly coat thousands of individual wafers.
Marrying piezoelectrics with a thin film microchip coating, those scientists Down Under have for the first time identified just how much energy your pressure can generate.
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By coating the carbon anode of a LiIon battery with a tangle of these submicroscopic silicon nanowires a battery can store more lithium without cracking or degrading after hundreds of charge cycles.
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