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Hard Coat MaterialHard Coat Material

What Makes our Hard Coat Special?

CRG’s protective hard coat is an organic polymer-based composite that protects electronics from harsh environments. It has exceptional hardness and toughness properties with the added benefit of easy, low-temperature (<180 °C) application such as epoxy and urethane organic potting compounds. This feature, along with its thermal conductivity (approximately 3.5 W/mK) provides a protection solution for a broad range of nontraditional applications. The hard coat material also offers protection against many solvents, as well as acids and bases.

This robust hard coat material can be applied to a wide range of electronic or mechanical parts and would enable better protection of many commercial and military electronics. The effort required for elaborate housing design to minimize environmental exposure would be greatly reduced, thus saving time and money. In most applications the typical metal enclosure could be eliminated and replaced with CRG’s hard coat material. This would provide protection against harsh environmental effects such as solvents, vibration, rough handling, and thermal cycling.

Applications

Possible applications of this hard coat include electronics coating, high-temperature packaging, thermally conductive packaging, and thermal interface management. Protection of electronic and electrical components in the mining, transportation, chemical, and oil and gas industries requires a robust, abrasion resistant, chemically resistant and cost-effective packaging solution, which the CRG hard coat system can provide. The CRG hard coat system can be applied by injection molding, spraying, casting and flow-casting, making it easy to integrate into any process.

The coating has a good level of chemical resistance and is also resistant to thermal shock. The hard coat is thermally conductive (less than metals, more than neat polymers), so heat buildup on components can be avoided. CRG Industries can provide this material and will assist in product application.

Approved for public release 11-30-2005: AFRL-WS 05-2702


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