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High Transparent Metal Oxide / Polyimide Antistatic Coatings

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNK06OM04C
Agency Tracking Number: 041357
Amount: $599,924.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: X2.07
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2006
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-01-30
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2008-01-30
Small Business Information
15 Cabot Road
Woburn, MA 01801-1050
United States
DUNS: 004841644
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: Yes
Principal Investigator
 Jack Salerno
 Principal Investigator
 (781) 935-1200
 jsalerno@agiltron.com
Business Contact
 Lei Zhang
Title: Director of R&D
Phone: (781) 935-1200
Email: Lzhang@agiltron.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Through this Phase I program, Agiltron has successfully produced an innovative transparent conductive nanocomposite paint that holds the promise of meeting space application requirements. The paint can be easily applied to many surfaces and forms a clear conductive coating at temperatures as low as 130 oC. These coatings exhibit high visible transparency of ~ 85 % (> 95% with additional AR coating) and good conductive sheet resistance in the range of 106 to 108 ohm/sq. Agiltron has also performed harsh environmental testing in which the coatings show no degradation after undergoing UV radiation up to 32 J/cm2 irradiation, low temperature cycling down to 77 oK, high vacuum pumping, and collision with fragmented debris. The proposed robust clear conductive coating is therefore well suited for NASA space environment resistant polymer coating related applications. The high performance paint will also find wide commercial applications, such as in flexible displays. In Phase II, we will continue these efforts through a concentration on optimization and scale-up of stable ITO/polymer suspensions and the development of low-cost, large-scale deposition and patterning processes for the practical applications of this new class of transparent conductive coatings.

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