New Coating Technology For Electronics
Techtree News Staff, Jul 22, 2008 1910 hrs IST
Unique polymer-like coating promises to protect electronics from exposure to dust, oil, dirt and moisture.
Everyone would like to save gadgets from moisture and water spills. Cheap plastic pouches or scratch pads can protect the gadget's screens, but not the rest of the body. To address this need, a solution called Golden Shellback coating has been developed by the engineering group of Northeast Maritime Institute (NMI), a mariners' education facility in Fairhaven, MA USA. It was featured in Revision 3's online Tech Show - Tekzilla. Golden Shellback is a unique polymer-like coating that promises to protect electronics and operational equipments from exposure to synthetic liquids, oils, dust, dirt and moist environments.
Weather and water are two external factors that affect the gadgets, phones and other electronics. Visually transparent, the Golden Shellback coating is applied in vacuum so that it creates a kind of a film on the inner as well as outer surface of the gadget. The coating is non-flammable and carries waterproofing, anti-corrosion properties and is insoluble in common solvents. However, repairs of the coated surfaces require usage of abrasive method to get rid of coating.
Patrick Norman, Tekzilla's presenter, tried checking this by shooting footage of cell phones and CB radios operating imperfectly under water!
The coating process is carried out in the NMI Labs in small volumes and the engineering team is currently exploring possibilities of extending this technology to cameras and optics.
A fully splash-proof, oil-resistant coating can truly be a lifesaver. This can also increase the viability and life of electronics and gadgets under moist weather conditions. The Tekzilla video on current capabilities left this viewer awe-struck. But the technology will have to get the green signal from OEMs and industry experts for its water-oil-dust proofing ability. Until then you can check it out at the Golden Shellback website.
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