Co-development and tailored advanced coatings
Accelerating innovation through strategic R&D partnerships
Standard, off-the-shelf coatings often fall short when faced with extreme environmental demands, highly aggressive chemical environments, or ultra-tight dimensional specifications.
At the Danish Technological Institute, we don't just apply coatings—we co-develop surface solutions. Utilizing our state-of-the-art Molecular Vapor Deposition (MVD) platforms, we engineer and validate the next generation of protective surface treatments.
Our joint development pathways
We organize our collaborative development projects around three core technical pathways to systematically address your unique performance criteria:
1. Custom integration and validation
Objective: Tailoring deposition conditions and precursor chemistry specifically for your complex components, sensors, or optical surfaces.
Focus: Performing rigorous testing for long-term operational tolerances, and environmental longevity in real-world scenarios. We subject our coatings to accelerated thermal, chemical, and humidity aging to ensure reliability
2. pH Resistance
Objective: Replacing standard coatings with innovative candidate materials to withstand highly acidic or highly basic environments.
Focus: Systematically testing precursor chemistry, customized recipe formulations, and gas-phase deposition conditions to build robust chemical barriers that survive extreme pH shifts
3. Property Expansion
Objective: Adapting and tailoring the coating to expand surface performance beyond standard hydrophobic and oleophobic boundaries.
Focus: Developing alternative nanoscale surface functionalities, including specialized high-adhesion/bonding coatings and, hydrophilic layers, coatings for narrow channels or complex geometries
Why partner with the Danish Technological Institute?
Advanced gas-phase toolset (MVD): Our capabilities allow us to coat complex 3D structures, internal geometries, and high-aspect-ratio holes/pores uniformly, without solvents or dimensional changes. Low-temperature Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) can be used to apply some layers.
From lab scale to series production: Benefit from an ISO 9001:2015 certified production environment, ensuring that the results achieved in our co-development phase seamlessly scale to high-quality, reproducible series production
Unmatched characterization ecosystem: We couple development with world-class surface analysis (including FIB-SEM, TOF-SIMS, and SEM-EDX) to inspect and understand coating-substrate interfaces down to the nanometer level
Ready to engineer your next surface?
Let’s discuss how we can adapt our coating technologies to your specific requirements - reach out to Team Manager and coating specialist, Susan Cooper, today.