Bonding studies for thermally sprayed copper alloy antimicrobial coatings

Aereus Technologies是一家总部位于安大略省的公司，开发了用于医疗保健材料触摸表面的创新抗菌涂层技术(Aereus Shields)。我们通过一项初步参与赠款项目建立了伙伴关系，以解决金属涂层和塑料复合材料之间附着力较弱的挑战性问题。该团队探索了将金属粘合到塑料上的替代处理方法，因为目前的工业实践对于制造来说过于劳力和能源密集型。我们开发了一种新工艺，不仅能够将金属涂层机械结合到不同表面类型、形状和尺寸的塑料基材上，而且还可以潜在地与现有的塑料商业制造工艺相结合。拟议的Engage Plus项目是为了扩展该项目，以进一步评估这一新涂层工艺的可行性。该工艺的涂层产品将根据结合强度和耐磨性进行评估，以提供数据，为可能的产品在 工业应用。

Aereus Technologies is an Ontario-based company and has developed the innovative antimicrobial coating technologies (Aereus Shields) for touch surfaces of healthcare materials. We had established a partnership via an initial engage grant project to address the challenging problem of the weak adhesion between the metallic coating and plastic composite materials. The team explored alternative treatment processes for bonding metal to plastics because the current industrial practice is too labor and energy intensive for manufacturing. We were able to develop a new process that is not only able to mechanically bond the metal coatings to plastic substrates of different surface types, shapes, and sizes, but can also be potentially integrated with the existing commercial manufacturing processes of plastics. The proposed Engage Plus project is to extend this project to further evaluate the viability of this new coating process. The coating products from this process will be evaluated in terms of bonding strength and wear resistance to provide data for possible integrations of the products in industrial applications.