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OverviewFall 2009
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Contents1. Introduction
2. Surface modification technology overview
3. Hoowaki’s micro-molding technology
4. Applications
5. Working with Hoowaki
6. Contact Information
3 August 2009transforming surfaces
Contents1. Introduction
2. Surface modification technology overview
3. Hoowaki’s micro-molding technology
4. Applications
5. Working with Hoowaki
6. Contact Information
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Hoowaki LLC
Hoowaki is based in South Carolina at the Clemson Center for Applied Technology and is commercializing technology developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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Hoowaki Engineers Surfaces
Conventional non-engineered surfaceRandom distribution of sizes and shapes
Highly-engineered surfaceDesigned distribution of sizes and shapes
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Hoowaki LLC
Colored water droplets on the surface of molded Santoprene rubber.
Surface micro-structures clearly visible through the droplets (structures are in the 50 micron range)
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Hoowaki - Key staff
• Ralph Hulseman, President - 25 years with Michelin R&D. Experience in target markets
• William King PhD, CTO - Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Technology Inventor
• John Warner, CFO - Entrepreneur and Chairman of “InnoVenture”
• Scott Denley, VP Manufacturing and Quality – 28 years with Michelin
• March Maguire, VP Engineering – 20 years with Kemet
• Doug Wilson PhD, VP Business Development -25 years in advanced materials new business development.
• Bob Mammarella PhD, Chief Scientist – 30 years with Fuji and Polaroid in product development R&D and process engineering
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Contents1. Introduction
2. Surface modification technology overview
3. Hoowaki’s micro-molding technology
4. Applications
5. Working with Hoowaki
6. Contact Information
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Surface Modification• Surface properties
differ from those of bulk materials
• Such properties can strongly influence the functions that contribute to product value
• Many of these properties occur at the meso level
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Bulk vs. Meso vs. Chemical Scale
Bulk Scale: Man-made,
movable objects
Meso Scale, 0.1mm to 10
nm: Unseen by the
naked eye - properties
independent of bulk material
Molecular Scale:
Chemical interactions - affects meso
scale
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Bulk vs. Meso vs. Chemical Scale
Meso: design nanometer to micrometer sized features
Engineering attributes at each of the three size scales can optimize the performance of a
man-made object
There is an equal range of design potential at the meso
scale as at the bulk scale
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Properties of Well-Studied Scales
Scale Properties
Bulk Stiffness, density, diffusivity, solubility, yield strength, electrical conductivity, magnetic properties, capacitance, sound conductivity, hysteric vibration damping and thermal conductivity
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Properties of Well-Studied Scales
Scale Properties
Molecular Chemical reactivity, catalysis, molecular mobility and inter-diffusion, light adsorption, van de Waals forces, hydrogen bonding and chemical bond strength
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Manufacturing the Meso scale
• Until recently, the meso scale was difficult to engineer
• Existing manufacturing processes generally created size distributions of randomly shaped and sized objects• Examples: Sanding, grinding, etching, bead blasting and polishing
• Emerging manufacturing processes: micromachining, laser machining, lithography, micro-molding
It is now possible to engineer performance attributes contributed to by the meso scale
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Meso-scale Structures Dramatically Influence the
Properties of a SurfacePerformance
attributeDescription
Appearance Reflection of light: shiny, matte, shades of color, iridescence, photonic light manipulation
Touch Interaction with nerve endings: density of points of contact, their shape, stiffness, flexibility, perhaps electrical behavior
Surface tension Interactions of fluids with solids: hydrophobic and hydrophilic behavior. Changing roughness at the meso scale is necessary to create super-hydrophobic behavior.
Nucleation Crystallization, boiling, and cavitation are examples
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Meso-scale Structures Dramatically Influence the
Properties of a SurfacePerformance
attributeDescription
Bloom Balance of bulk chemical concentration and surface chemical concentration. When a chemical is above its solubility limit in the bulk (super saturated) elevated surface concentrations occur. Bloom can also be a nucleated phenomenon.
Friction Force of sliding or initiation of sliding between two surfaces. May be dominated by true contact area and van der Waals forces.
Adhesion Force of chemical, hydrogen or van der Waals bonding multiplied by area of contact. Meso scale design can increase area of contact to allow molecular level contact to occur.
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Meso-scale Structures Dramatically Influence the
Properties of a SurfacePerformance
attributeDescription
Lubrication A fluid between two surfaces dramatically changes sliding friction. Meso scale roughness optimizes this behavior by controlling the flow regime and by reducing van der Waals adhesion.
Drag, flow control
Friction of a flowing liquid or gas over a surface. Meso scale features interact with a boundary layer of fluid to control onset of turbulence or point of separation of turbulent flow from a surface.
Heat Transfer Radiant heat transfer is a function of surface area. Convective heat transfer is dominated by boundary layer flow. Boiling heat transfer is dominated by nucleation of boilng. All are meso scale effects.
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Performance attribute
Description
Growth of cells Strongly influenced by meso scale structures. Structures can retard bio-film formation and anchoring of species; or, provide a three dimensional environment promoting adhesion and inter-cell chemical communication.
Crack initiation,Weathering, UV, ozone
Reactive species such as ozone, UV rays and reactive species typically penetrate into the meso scale and cause structural damage. Local defects and stress concentrations at the meso scale can lead to crack initiation.
Meso-scale Structures Dramatically Influence the
Properties of a Surface
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“Engineering Touch”A surface’s physical structure and interaction with human sense
receptors has a tremendous impact on the perception of touch, feel and taste
• Concept of “engineering touch”: • Creating a surface that has a specific look and feel • Also exhibits other desirable characteristics such as low adhesion or super-hydrophobicity
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Surface Tension• Some performance attributes
such as surface tension are controlled by both molecular and meso scale effects
• Interfacial surface tension is controlled at the molecular level: determines whether the material pair tend toward wetting (hydrophilic) or non-wetting (hydrophobic)
• Meso scale structures can amplify the natural tendency of the surface by changing the force balance at the interfaces
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Contact Angles
• A droplet resting on a solid surface and surrounded by a gas forms a characteristic contact angle θ.
• Wenzel State: Rough solid surface, the liquid is in intimate contact with the solid asperities
• Cassie-Baxter State: the liquid rests on the tops of the asperities
It is desirable to achieve the Cassie-Baxter state because the droplets are significantly more mobile
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Highly Hydrophobic Surfaces
• Problem today: a highly hydrophobic surface requires the use of expensive fluorine based compounds
• A super-hydrophobic surface can be created by a combination of:• Processes that create a
distribution of sizes and shapes of meso scale structures, randomly
distributed over a surface • Chemical modifications or
coatingsPTFE Polymer
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There Exists No Low Cost Alternative to PTFE to Achieve Super-
hydrophobicity• There are alternative ways
to make a surface superhydrophobic.
• However, conventional efforts rely on fluoro compounds that: • Are expensive • Require special
procedures to protect environment and health
• Are time consuming • Require specific
processing conditionsSilicone rubber
63x
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Chemical Coatings for Super-hydrophobicity
• A number of paints and sprays currently in development attempt to mimic the “Lotus effect” by providing super-hydrophobic properties.
• In general, these compounds combine nano-particles with hydrophobic polymers such as waxes and plastics, and they form a nanostructure by a self-organization process during drying.
• While steps are taken to make them as safe as possible, these materials all contain some quantity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
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Chemical Coatings for Super-hydrophobicity
Advantages Disadvantages
Easy to apply, re-applicable Expensive
Provide functionality on a limited number of material surfaces
Can be rubbed off easily - limited life on elastic, flexible surfaces
Often are slippery, have low coefficient of friction
Can be deactivated/removed by detergents
Wear out with time
May require significant regulatory approval
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Super-hydrophobicity Without Coatings
• All coating solutions are indirect: they achieve hydrophobicity without physical structure modification.
• Engineering surface microstructures can allow ordinary materials such as aluminum, polyolefins and dienic rubber to compete with hydrophobic PTFE surfaces
What other methods engineer surfaces?
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Laser and Micro-machining Technologies
• These technologies are commercial methods for generating microstructures, but:
• They create features one at a time and are slow
• Costs of $300 to $1000 per square cm are common for features of about 100 micron size. Costs rise quickly as feature size decreases
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‘s Micro-molding Technology
Santoprene 63x
• Can create microscopic features on curved metal, polymer, ceramic, or organic surfaces.
• Advantages over competitive solutions: inherently lower cost, more environmentally friendly, and offers a greater degree of flexibility so that surfaces can be designed for specific applications. ETFE 20x
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Contents1. Introduction
2. Surface modification technology overview
3. Hoowaki’s micro-molding technology
4. Applications
5. Working with Hoowaki
6. Contact Information
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History of the Company
• Prof. King began the research prior to 2003.
• A major automotive manufacturing company sponsored research with Prof. King beginning in 2006 and continuing today.
• This highly successful work lead to trials in an industrial facility and fabrication of full sized prototypes products.
• Organization of Hoowaki occurred in Sept. 2008 to accelerate commercialization.
• Hoowaki’s laboratory and pilot facility opened Feb. 2009.
• Four patents have been filed and Hoowaki is supplying development samples to help define commercial products.
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How Do We Do It?Step 1: Understand customer requirements
Step 2: Design and engineer surface
Step 3: Silicon micro-fabrication
Step 4 to N: Proprietary replication steps
Step N+1: Polymer, metal or ceramic forming tools
Step N+2: Customer’s tooling
Final step: Customer end product
Hoowaki expertise #1
Hoowaki expertise #2
Hoowaki expertise #3
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How Do We Do It?Process for micro-casting
metal
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How Do We Do It?Process for micro-casting
metalMetal with 10 microndiameter holes. 400nm ridges from the Bosch process are viewable in the picture showing a single 25 micron hole
Metal pillars 50 micron diameter
and 100 micron tall
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How Do We Do It? Process for micro-casting
polymers
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How Do We Do It?Micro-cast metal used as an
embossing master
Silicone embossed by micro-cast metal
Opposite left: 5 micro L water droplet on flat silicone surface with contact angel of 92 degrees
Opposite right: :5 micro L water droplet on silicone embossed with micro-structured metal alloy with contact angle of 152 deg. The silicone pillars have a diameter of 10 micron, a pitch of 20 micron and a height of 15 micron
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How Do We Do It?Process for micro-casting a metal
roller
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How Do We Do It?Micro-cast metal rollers
Micro-cast metal roller showing 100 micron diameter holes 15 micron deep. The roller could be used to emboss sheets of polymer in a roll to roll process
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Unique Ability to Design Multiple Scales
• Range of features possible allows microstructures of varying size and dimensions to simultaneously perform different functional attributes.
• Further enhances the ability to engineer surfaces for specific applications.
• Features can be combined in ways no one has done before, such as creating a super-hydrophobic surface with high grip that has wonderful appearance and feel.
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Micro-molding for Multifunctional Products
• Product designers may choose micro molding technology to adjust surface functionality and choose base materials for other functionality.
• Coatings and random surface texture processes have great difficulty to independently control different performance functions.
• The ability of micro molding technology to independently control hydrophobicity and friction coefficient is just one example of its large market potential
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Micro-molding to deliver multifunctional products
Attribute 1 Attribute 2 Example Applications
Super hydrophobic High friction coefficient
Super hydrophobic Low friction coefficient
Super hydrophobic High cyclic loads
A few possible combinations…
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Adjustable Multifunctional Parameters
• Height / Depth
• Width
• Angle
• Volume
• Shape
• Distance between structures
• Connectivity
• Surface Tension
• Friction, Grip
• Stiffness, Flexibility
• Wear Resistance
• Appearance
• Touch
• Surface Storage Volume
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Advantages of micro-molding technology
• Inherently lower cost than competitive solutions
• Scalability of process
• Seamless integration with existing manufacturing facilities
• Environmentally friendly – no chemicals are used
• Can apply microstructures to metal, polymer, ceramic, or organic surfaces
• Applicability to curved surfaces
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Disadvantages of micro-molding technology
• Doesn’t apply to extruded products such as textiles.
• Microstructures may change optical properties.
• Does not apply to materials that cannot be molded, imprinted, forged or deformed.
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Creating products with engineered surfaces
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Adapting the process for creating products with engineered
surfaces (cont.)
• Second process enhances the surface performance to boost product performance
• Requires unique know-how, tooling and intellectual property
• Engineering the surface may include modeling and computation of a variety of engineering parameters such as load, stiffness, surface tension or shrinkage.
• Design of a surface may include computer-aided design (CAD) in two and three dimensions to optimize look and feel and manufacturing integration.
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Micrographs of representative materials
Micro Structured Curved Metal Surface 75X
Micro Structured PDMS Polymer
Surface 63X
Micro Structured Ceramic Surface
63X
Cold forged 50, 30, 20, 10 micron dia. microstructures on aluminum foil (63x)
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Contents1. Introduction
2. Surface modification technology overview
3. Hoowaki’smicro-molding technology
4. Applications
5. Working with Hoowaki
6. Contact Information
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Applications of Hoowaki technology
Color
Ice Mitigation
Grip
Drag Reduction
Feel
Self Cleaning
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Preventing ice-build up
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Self-cleaning surfaces
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Reduced water drag
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Reduced air drag
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Improved grip
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Touch and Feel
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Color
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Contents1. Introduction
2. Surface modification technology overview
3. Hoowaki’s micro-molding technology
4. Applications
5. Working with Hoowaki
6. Contact Information
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Working with Hoowaki• Purchase developmental micro-
molding tools, mold inserts, materials samples
• Joint development projects (Hoowaki) or basic research (UIUC)
• Share expertise
• Joint marketing: promotion of Hoowaki technology to upgrade materials into new markets
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Contents1. Introduction
2. Surface modification technology overview
3. Hoowaki’s micro-molding technology
4. Applications
5. Discussion
6. Contact Information
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Contact Information
To learn how your surfaces can be transformed, please contact:
Ralph Hulseman, President Hoowaki, LLC
RalphHulseman@Hoowaki.com 864 238-5631or Doug Wilson, VP Business DevelopmentDougWilson@hoowaki.com 704-425-3614
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