 | Clean Technology 2008
Bio Energy, Renewables, Green Building, Smart Grid, Storage, and Water
Chapter 6: Green Chemistry & Sustainable Industry Practices |
| | Low-Energy, Solventless Coating Processes | | Authors: | H.P. Lewis | | Affilation: | GVD Corporation, US | | Pages: | 344 - 347 | | Keywords: | CVD, chemical vapor deposition, fluoropolymer, conductive polymer, solventless, low-energy | | Abstract: | GVD Corporation is commercializing solvent-free, chemically-pure polymer coatings formed by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). GVD’s all-dry coatings currently range from fluorocarbons to silicones to electrically-conductive polymers. These novel coatings are deposited from the vapor phase, obviating the need for harmful VOCs, and are spectroscopically-indistinguishable from conventional solution-polymerized coatings. GVD’s PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene, also known as Teflon®) coatings, for example, show no evidence of the oxidative damage and cross-linking associated with conventional plasma deposition processes. Critically, GVD’s clean PTFE process uses none of the solvents or surfactants (e.g., PFOA) incorporated into spray-on PTFE formulations. The waste effluent from GVD’s process is treated using a standard scrubbing approach. GVD’s coatings can be deposited at room temperature, such that even facial tissue can be coated with ease. |  | This paper is available to CTSI members in PDF© format. | | ISBN: | 1-4200-8502-0 |
| Pages: | 724 |
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