Low Cost Diamond-Like-Carbon (DLC) Thin Films: Nanotechnology Transfer from Academia to Industry

摘要

Synraguard, LLC is a high-tech start-up Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Development MWBE (Minority Women Business Enterprise) owned and operated by three women with long-term careers in the academic and business worlds. It is a scientifically-based solution provider. Its mission is to Creatively Research, Develop. Engineer, Reengineeer, and/or Refine Scientifically Based Technologies Resulting in Processes, Products and Usages for the Current and Future Benefit of All Humanity and the Global Environment. The core competency and primary focus of Syntraguard is low-cost successful deposition of thin films of DLC (diamond-like carbon) on various client-provided materials as substrates. Syntraguard was created around its core competency skill. This skill was among those brought to Syntraguard by an owner with a long-term background in academic research, while the other owners brought long-tenn business and public relations expertise - essentially representing a transfer of nanotechnology research potential from academia to industry to help Syntraguard fulfil its total mission. Major focus clients include the military, airlines and automotive finns facing costly and potentially hazardous erosion of moving parts, as well as, other corporations producing moving parts made and sold to still other corporations and to the public. Typical surfaces coated include tools for cutting, molding and forming still other tools. They also include automotive, industrial, aerospace, and medical components. The need for continuing innovation creates a futuristic timeline for these services.