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The First Polymer Coatings Composited with Carbon Nanotube

NANOTECT
TECHNICAL INFO

Without CNT

With CNT

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) has made it this strong!

With untreated CNT

With surface-tailored CNT

Even corrosion resistant coatings with CNT!

What IS NANOTECT?
Nanotect is a composite coating coprising selected polymer resins, lubricants,
corrosion inhibitors, and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the last of which distinguish
Nanotect from all other coatings available to date in the market. A special
technique of surface modification of CNTs developed with the collaboration of
Kyoto University, Japan, has made us the first maker to develop and put on the
market a line of Nanotect coatings in which CNTs are finely (molecularly)
composited with polymer matrices. These polymer/CNT molecular composites
have proved to show extraordinarily superb properties, as partly predicted by
theory.

Nanotect is tailored to provide specific properties for specific applications.


These properties include:

* Good adhesion.
* Low and steady friction.
* Excellent resistance to wear and abrasion.
* Remarkable impact strength.
* Strong resistance to corrosion.
* Good Resistance to the elements.
* Wide range of working temperatures.
Pretreatment of the matrix is essential to achieve the best performance in
corrosion resistance. Color is all the black of CNT, fortunately or unfortunately.

Nanotect is best used on steel products, while it can be effectively applied on


many other matrices. When used on steel bolts and nuts, for example, it will
provide incomparable performance in resistance to corrosion, chipping, and
break and ease of maintenance, for many decades in heavy-industrial
environments, for example.

Some products coated with NANOTECT

What Technology IS
NANOTECT Based On?
Indeed carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have long been expected to be promising
building blocks for next-generation composite polymers, but their extremely low
solubility in solvents and polymers has prohibited their commercial applications
in this field. We had the idea that a thin layer of a suitable polymer densely
grafted on the CNT surface would help CNT particles finely disperse in the
matrix polymer to be reinforced and, at the same time, work as an insulating
barrier to prevent electric circulation through CNT particles. The electric
conductivity of CNT is obviously undesirable for our purpose, since it even
accelerates corrosion. This idea along with collaboration from Kyoto University
has led us to develop a simple, industrially acceptable grafting method to
surface-modify CNTs.
The mentioned method of CNT modification was found to be particularly
effective to a selected CNT, which is supplied by GSI Creos, Corp. and in fact
used in Nanotect. As the photos given below show, thus treated CNTs give
excellent dispersion in the polymer (Photo d) as well as in the solvent (photo b),
while the untreated materials form large aggregates in the solvent (a) and
polymer (c). The nearly molecular dispersion of CNT in the polymer matrix as
shown in Photo c has never been achieved before, and is responsible for the
excellent properties of the Nanotect coatings.

Photo a

Photo c

Photo b

Photo d

The NANOTECT Coatings


1. Nanotect-A
Among the most notable properties of this coating are excellent resistance to
wear and abrasion (ca. 10 times more resistant than zinc coating) plus high
impact strength (undamaged by the 1.6mm/1kg/50cm Du-Pont test).
It is also characterized by remarkable ductility (undamaged by the 2mm
bend test), low friction (0.02 to 0.14, depending on methods of measurements),
good resistance to corrosion (about 1000h by the salt spray test) and to UV
(about 2000 h by the Dew cycle sunshine weather meter test) and wide range of
working temperatures (from below -190oC to 240oC).

Nanotect-A after a 500,000r of abrasion test (left)


and a 1.6mm/1kg/50cm Du-Pont test (right)

2. Nanotect-C
This coating is best characterized by its excellent resistance to corrosion
(3000h by the salt spray test) plus high impact strength (undamaged by the
1.6mm/1kg/50cm Du-Pont test).
Other notable features of Nanotect-C include remarkable ductility
(undamaged by the 2mm bend test), low friction (0.10 to 0.15, depending on
methods of measurements), resistance to wear and abrasion (ca. 6 times more
resistant than zinc coating), good UV resistance (about 3000 h by the Dew cycle
sunshine weather meter test), and wide range of working temperatures (from
below -190oC to 220oC).

Nanotect-C after 3000h of salt spray test

Relation of salt spray test and insulation resistance


7000

6000

Salt Spray Time/h

5000

4000

Nanotect-C
3000

2000

1000

0
1.E+05

1.E+07

1.E+09

1.E+11

1.E+13

1.E+15

1.E+17

Insulation Resistance/cm

Relationship between the corrosion resistant time


(salt spraytime) and insulation resistance of CNT
composited coating films (40m thick)
Selected Properties of The Nanotect and Some Other Coatings (All 30m Thick)
Nanotect-A
Knoop Hardness
Abrasion Resist.
(A 1kg/500rpm
relative test**)
Ductility
(Bend resistance)
Impact Resist.
(A Dupont 1kg/
50cm test)
Corrosion Resist.
(Salt spray test***)
Torque Coeff. (A
)

Nanotect-C

Zinc Plate

Hard Chromium Plate

Hk10

Hk120

Hk180

300,000r

4000r

50,000r

500,000r

2mm

<2mm

2mm

2mm

<2mm

<1.6mm

1.6mm

<1.6mm

3.2mm

1.6mm

1.6mm

1000h

500h

3000h

6000h

240h

250h

0.12

0.16

0.08

0.12

0.15

0.2

Nanotect-A

without CNT

Nanotect-C

without CNT*

Hk80

Hk20

Hk70

500,000r

75,000r

<2mm

* TAKECOAT-1000, Takenaka-Seisakusho Co., Ltd.


** Number of rounds at the first appearance of the steel matrix.
***Hours at the first appearance of rust.

Information
NANOTECT has won the grants-in-aid of The Enhancement of Manufacturing
Technology for Small and Medium Enterprises (NEDO, Subsidy No: Kinki-
2006-2008)
The Resona Foundation For Small And Medium Enterprise Promotion

and the award of (2009).

National federation of small Business Associations


Related patents:
Patent No.
Takenaka Seisakusho Co. Ltd, JP: P2005-28802A & P2005-7622A
Takenaka Seisakusho Co. Ltd, GSI Creos Corp, Inagaki H. JP: P2007-291280A;
PCT: JP2007/059418.

HP

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Insulation resistance()
Sample
Insulation resistance()
Salt Spray test(hr)
Film thickness (m)

Nanotect-A
9

1.110
1000
34.2

Nanotect-C Not Include CNT Film


4.310 5
3.51012

3000
33.9

6000

38.0

37.5

Insulation resistance ()

1.00E+13
1.00E+12
1.00E+11
1.00E+10
1.00E+09
1.00E+08
1.00E+07
1.00E+06
1.00E+05
1.00E+04
1.00E+03
1.00E+02
1.00E+01
1.00E+00
1000
Salt spray test (hr)

2.310 14

Ralation of salt spray test and insulation resistance

General Polymer Film

3000

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