Surface treatment
AssigneeInterphase Materials Inc.
InventorsNoah Snyder, Kasey Catt, Natasha Gorski
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Abstract
A surface treatment includes a functional component and a linking component, wherein the linking component is capable of hydrogen bonding and/or covalently linking with the functional component and is capable of hydrogen bonding and/or covalently linking with the surface to form a treated surface. The surface treatment provides a beneficial property to the surface when the surface treatment is bonded to the surface.
Claims17
A method of improving a heat transfer coefficient between an interior and an exterior of a fluid conduit, the method comprising acts of:
- applying a surface treatment to an internal surface of the fluid conduit to form a treated surface,
- wherein the surface treatment, after forming the treated surface on the internal surface of the fluid conduit, has a thickness of less than 1,000 nm,
- wherein the surface treatment includes a chemical structure of X—R—B, wherein X is a functional component, R is a linking group capable of bridging X and B, and B is capable of at least one of hydrogen bonding and covalently linking with the internal surface of the fluid conduit to form the treated surface, and
- wherein the heat transfer coefficient for the fluid conduit having the treated surface is increased as compared to the heat transfer coefficient of the fluid conduit prior to the act of applying the surface treatment to the internal surface.
A method of improving a heat transfer coefficient between an interior and an exterior of a fluid conduit, the method comprising acts of:
- applying a surface treatment to an internal surface of the fluid conduit to form a treated surface,
- wherein the surface treatment, after forming the treated surface on the internal surface of the fluid conduit, has a thickness of less than 1,000 nm,
- wherein the surface treatment includes a chemical structure of X—B, wherein X is directly bonded to B, X is a functional component, and B is capable of at least one of hydrogen bonding and covalently linking with the internal surface of the fluid conduit to form the treated surface, and
- wherein the heat transfer coefficient for the fluid conduit having the treated surface is increased as compared to the heat transfer coefficient of the fluid conduit prior to the act of applying the surface treatment to the internal surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.