Oxford Advanced Surfaces - Use of Onto™ Highly Reactive Chemistry to facilitate the manufacture of products containing engineered plastics and polymers

工程塑料和聚合物在多个市场上越来越多地被用作产品部件，并正在取代传统材料，如木材和金属，因为它们结合了许多优点，如可成形性，强度和重量轻。然而，虽然这些材料具有有用的体积特性，但许多材料具有固有的表面特性，导致制造和最终使用方面的挑战，例如粘附其他材料的能力差。Onto™高活性化学为这些制造问题提供了解决方案，允许以各种形式对各种材料进行表面改性，从而在材料表面赋予新的功能。虽然Onto™能够与许多类型的材料发生反应，但我们相信它在替代技术效率较低的聚合物方面具有最大的商业潜力。我们选择专注于该技术的三个关键应用，即表面能/润湿，附着力促进和直接粘附到涂层上。这三个都有助于解决表面界面问题，我们知道市场上存在的问题，例如层间分层，不灵活的电子设备。然而，这些应用的潜力是巨大的，因为工程聚合物在很多产品中都有应用。首先必须进行广泛的市场研究，以了解这些材料在哪些市场被使用，并了解它们的使用主要受其表面特性限制的地方。从这个广泛的概述中，有必要关注具体的市场细节，以确定Onto™增加产品价值的最大机会。该技术可能会对社会和环境产生巨大影响，因为它可以促进产品创新，并改善可再生能源和医疗应用等领域的现有产品性能。

Engineered plastics and polymers are becoming increasingly exploited in multiple markets foruse as product parts and are replacing traditional materials such as wood and metal becausethey combine many advantageous properties such as formability, strength and light weight.However, whilst having useful bulk properties, many of these materials have inherent surfaceproperties that lead to manufacturing and end use challenges, such as poor ability to adhere toother materials.Onto™ highly reactive chemistry provides a solution to these manufacturing problems byallowing surface modification of a wide range of materials in various forms, resulting in newfunctionality being imparted at the material surface. Whilst Onto™ is capable of reacting withmany types of materials, we believe that it has the greatest commercial potential for polymersfor which alternative technologies are less effective. We are choosing to concentrate on threekey applications of the technology, namely surface energy/wetting, adhesion promotion anddirect adhesion to a coating. All three contribute to solving surface interface problems forwhich we are aware that problems exist in the market, for example interlayer delamination inflexible electronic devices. However, the potential for these applications is vast becauseengineered polymers are utilised in so many products.A wide ranging market study must first be carried out to understand in which markets thesematerials are used, and to understand where their use is limited mainly by their surfaceproperties. From this broad overview, it will then be necessary to focus on specific markets indetail in order to identify the greatest opportunity for Onto™ to add value to products. Thetechnology could have a large impact socially and environmentally because it could facilitateproduct innovation and improve existing product performance in fields such as renewableenergy and medical applications.