Durable hydrophobic coating for enhanced product evacuation
Luna Labs offers a TRL 9 hydrophobic sol-gel coating that enhances product evacuation from packaging. This thin, flexible, and durable coating repels water-based liquids and emulsions, making it ideal for various packaging applications.
Overview
Luna Labs has developed an advanced hydrophobic sol-gel coating designed to enhance product evacuation from packaging. This coating features a thin dry film profile, remarkable flexibility, and exceptional durability, making it ideal for a wide range of packaging applications. The coating's hydrophobic surface chemistry repels water-based liquids and emulsions, ensuring efficient product evacuation. Compatible with various plastics and metals, this coating can easily be integrated into existing manufacturing processes.
Technical specifications
Key features:
- Thin film profile: Sub-10 microns, ensuring minimal impact on packaging design.
- High water contact angle: Greater than 100°, promoting effective liquid repellency.
- Low water roll-off angle: 5-10°, facilitating easy evacuation of contents.
- Versatile application methods: Spray coat, flow coat, fill-and-drain, and dip coat.
- Durability: Resists bending, creasing, and scratching without delamination or microcracking.
- Adhesion: Strong adherence to both plastics and metals.
- Safety: Complies with food safety standards, free from toxic or fluorinated components.
Technology readiness level
The hydrophobic coating technology has achieved a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 9, indicating its maturity and readiness for commercial deployment. Extensive validation has demonstrated its robustness and efficacy across various packaging formats and conditions.
About Luna Labs
Luna Labs is a product development company based in Charlottesville, Virginia, that creates specialized solutions for the defense, industrial, and healthcare sectors. The company leverages a multidisciplinary approach combining materials science, biotechnology, and systems engineering to solve complex technical challenges. By repurposing advanced technologies—such as adapting sol-gel chemistry for corrosion prevention or mimicking viral structures for drug delivery—Luna Labs develops breakthrough innovations. Their diverse portfolio includes advanced protective coatings, real-time asset monitoring systems, medical simulation training tools, and drug delivery platforms designed to improve human performance and safeguard critical infrastructure.
These technologies address significant real-world problems, such as enhancing the durability of military and aerospace assets through non-chromate corrosion control and providing medical professionals with realistic training ecosystems for hemorrhage control. By partnering with government agencies, defense contractors, and leading industrial organizations, the company focuses on advancing research from initial discovery through to commercial-scale implementation. Their commitment to innovation is evidenced by the successful deployment of their technologies in high-stakes environments and their ongoing development of platforms intended to address complex conditions like PTSD and traumatic brain injury.
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