A Sharp Solution to Water Treatment

Featured in this issue:      Distinguish Your Coatings Contractor Business  |  Control Your Coating Surface; Gloss, Orange Peel, and Beyond  |  Create Highly Transparent Coatings with Low Resistivity  |  Liquinox — Critical Cleaning Liquid Detergent  |  Advanced Alkaline and Chloride Alloy Alternatives  |  Try it Once, You'll Use it Forever!  |  Heat Resistant Gloss Powder Coat  |  Enhanced Protection for Steel and Concrete Applications 12 February 2016 Share with a friend Add to Safe Senders List |  If you can't view this email, please click here Industry Trends & Events . . .   Learn more   A Sharp Solution to Water Treatment In many parts of the world, clean water is luxury. An Engineers Without Borders chapter at Utah State University teamed up with a rural town in Mexico to solve a water purification problem in an innovative and sustainable way. Using concrete, washed sand, and PVC pipes, they created a filtration system with one rather surprising component — rusty nails. The town's water was contaminated with arsenic, but the nails removed the toxin by forming a precipitate in which the arsenic sits on the surface of the iron. Water passes over the nails, through a diffuser plate, and then through a sand and gravel filter, removing both arsenic and bacterial pathogens. Learn more     View now   Distinguish Your Coatings Contractor Business NACE International Boost your coatings contractor business's credibility by becoming accredited by the NACE International Institute Contractor Accreditation Program (NIICAP). In doing so, you show asset owners, business partners, and customers that you're committed to following best practices to improve product and service quality, reduce risk, and extend asset life and performance.     Learn more   Control Your Coating Surface; Gloss, Orange Peel, and Beyond Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. The Rhopoint IQ-S Goniophotometer provides five key parameters for measuring the quality of coating surfaces. The pocket-sized small body provides gloss, haze, DOI and its unique parameters RIQ (Reflected Image Quality), and RSPEC. The IQ-S is a compact but powerful solution for evaluating surface appearance. Learn more.     Create Highly Transparent Coatings with Low Resistivity Cascade Optical Corp. Indium Tin Oxide is used to create highly transparent coatings with low resistivity. ITO coatings have many applications: touchscreen devices, EMI shielding, optical switching, and anti-fog for VIS and NIR camera windows. Learn more.   Learn more     Liquinox — Critical Cleaning Liquid Detergent Alconox, Inc. Liquinox from Alconox is a concentrated, anionic detergent for manual and ultrasonic cleaning. Free rinsing to give you reliable results without interfering residues. The solution is extremely mild and completely soluble in hard and soft water. USDA authorized. Dilute 1:100, pH 8.5.   View now

Industrial Coatings . . .   View now   Supercapacitor Thread Can Power Phones Researchers fabricated thread supercapacitors with two capacitive layers using a semi-automatic dip coating method. The two capacitive layers were coated sequentially on a stainless steel core wire with ink, an aqueous-based gel electrolyte, and a silver conductive paint. The thread can be woven into everyday clothing and is capable of storing and supplying enough power for common devices like smartphones and tablets.     Learn more   Solid Material Cracks, Then Heals Itself This self-adaptive composite (SAC) consists of sticky, micron-scale rubber spheres that form a solid matrix, created by mixing two polymers and a solvent that evaporates when heated. Unlike other types of self-healing materials that encapsulate liquids in solid shells, the liquid-filled spheres in this SAC are easily deformed but resilient. A coating of viscous polydimethylsiloxane keeps the spheres stuck together.   Cleaning & Surface Preparation . . .   A Storm is Coming Veeco Instruments' WaferStorm system features flux cleaning technology that is critical to wafer bumping and joint formation processes. The system's soak-and-spray method removes oxide layers and other impurities to ensure a clean metallic interface for the next assembly step. The new system is capable of cleaning the small spacing in wafers with fine bump pitches and removing even thick film photoresists.   Learn more     Making Abrasive Blasting Safer With operator safety and environmental protection in mind, the Containablast surface preparation module features both a service room and a blast room, all within a portable, easy to install shipping container. The container comes in three sizes, and has blast equipment that can handle a variety of abrasive media, from steel shot and grit to chilled iron to glass beads.   View now   View now   Advanced Alkaline and Chloride Alloy Alternatives Pavco, Inc. Alkaline based Ziniloy 3028™ and Ziniloy HD™ along with chloride based NiClipse-C™ offer unprecedented alloy characteristics. Pavco zinc nickel alloy systems are tailored to meet the growing list of requirements and are defined by unparalleled ductility characteristics, ease of use, and uniform alloy deposit throughout a wide current density range.     Learn more   Try It Once, You'll Use It Forever! Competition Chemicals, Inc. Simichrome — the all purpose metal polish. Perfect for polishing molds, dies, and more. Great for product finishing. Excellent purging compound, too! BlueAway — the fantastic cleaner to remove heat-caused discoloration or "blue-ing." Great mold cleaner, too. For complete information and a complimentary sample, visit our Web site or call Competition Chemicals at 641-648-5121.     Heat Resistant Gloss Powder Coat FORREST Technical Coatings Use this powder coating on small engines, generators, or other equipment that gets hot. The high gloss finish makes maintenance easy while resisting harsh chemicals and oils. Use this powder where continuous operating temperature tolerance up to 550° F is required. Colors are available in this coating system.   Learn more     Enhanced Protection for Steel and Concrete Applications Dow Polyurethanes Dow's VORASTAR™ 7000 spray elastomer system is a new, high-performance, two-component polyurea hybrid coating material specially designed to protect concrete containment structures and steel surfaces from corrosion in harsh chemical environments. With its exceptional chemical and moisture resistance, this spray elastomer system meets the specific needs of steel tank, pipeline, and chemical holding tank owners.   View now

Surface Engineering . . .   View now   Vapor-grown MOFs Could Yield More Powerful Electronics Metal organic framework (MOF) crystals resemble bird cages on the atomic scale, and they can be made in various shapes and sizes. MOFs have a large surface area, being almost 80% empty inside; one gram of MOF crystals has a surface area of more than 5,000 sq m. Researchers have created new crystals using a vapor-based method rather than the conventional liquid process, making the crystals more suitable for electronic applications.     Learn more   3D Printing to Control Energy from Reactive Materials A team from Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Harvard University is using 3D printing methods to create reactive material architectures that allow them to direct and manipulate the energy released in ways that previously were not possible. First, the scientists build conductive electrodes using a direct ink writing process. Then they use electrophoretic deposition to coat the surface of the electrodes with thermite nanoparticles.   Specialty Coatings . . .   Catalytic Coating Could Aid Drug Delivery Microscopic, swimming devices may be the next medical breakthrough, delivering diagnostic drugs to a specific site inside the human body. To solve the problem of navigating without constant observation or the need for magnetic fields, the researchers gave the devices a catalytic coating on one side. When fuel molecules were added, the coating created a chemical reaction that caused the device to move along a pre-determined route, guided only by natural structures.   Learn more   Metallic Glue as Good as a Weld? A Florida-based startup is developing a metallic adhesive that displays the strength and conductivity characteristics of a weld. The adhesive, made with metallic nanorods coated with indium on one side and gallium on the other, can be applied to virtually any surface and dries at room temperature. As a heat conductor, the glue could replace thermal greases currently in use, and as an electrical conductor, it could replace today's solders.   View now

Industry Standards . . .   Get the standards   Surface Preparation for Underground Coatings The PIP CTSU1000 practice describes the requirements for surface preparation and the application and inspection of shop-applied and field-applied protective coatings on pipe, vessels, equipment, fittings, flanges, field joints, valves, and special fabrications intended for underground service. For more information on IHS standards, visit us here. Get the standards