Method of making a coating of a microtextured surface

US6811829B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Battelle Memorial Institute · CH

Inventors

• John D. Affinito · Kennewick, US
• Gordon L. Graff · West Richland, US
• Peter M. Martin · Kennewick, US
• Mark E. Gross · Pasco, US
• Paul E. Burrows · Chattaroy, US
• Linda Susan Sapochak · Arlington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 2001
• Grant date: Nov 2, 2004
• Expiry date: May 24, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B05D1/62
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method for conformally coating a microtextured surface. The method includes flash evaporating a polymer precursor forming an evaporate, passing the evaporate to a glow discharge electrode creating a glow discharge polymer precursor plasma from the evaporate, cryocondensing the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma on the microtextured surface and crosslinking the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma thereon, wherein the crosslinking resulting from radicals created in the glow discharge polymer precursor plasma.