Surface coating and fuser member
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsCarolyn P. Moorlag, Yu Qi, Nicoleta D. Mihai, Gordon Sisler, Sandra J. Gardner, Qi Zhang, Nan-Xing Hu
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Abstract
The present teachings disclose a surface coating. The surface coating includes a fluoroplastic having dispersed therein aerogel particles wherein the aerogel particles comprise from about 0.1 weight percent to about 25 weight percent of the surface coating. The surface coating is useful as an out layer for fuser members.
Claims18
A surface coating comprising a fluoroplastic have dispersed therein aerogel particles wherein the aerogel particles comprise from about 0.1 weight percent to about 25weight percent of the surface coating, and wherein the surface coating comprises a surface energy of about 20 mN/m2 or less.
A fuser member comprising:
- a substrate;
- an intermediate layer disposed on the substrate;
- and
- an outer layer disposed on the intermediate layer wherein the outer layer comprises a fluoroplastic matrix having dispersed therein aerogel particles wherein the aerogel particles comprise from about 0.1 weight percent to about 25 weight percent of the outer layer, and wherein a surface energy of the outer layer is less than about 20 mN/m2.
A fuser member comprising:
- a substrate;
- and
- an outer layer disposed on the substrate wherein the outer layer comprises a fluoroplastic matrix having dispersed therein aerogel particles wherein the aerogel particles comprise from about 1 weight percent to about 5weight percent wherein a surface energy of the outer layer is less than about 10 mN/m2.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.