Our Advantage
What if your device or cartridge could…
- Move liquids through channels without using any pumps or wicking strips?
- Prevent liquid from flowing into channels or leaking without using valves?
- Have controlled, multiple liquid flow rates all on the same level?
- Be half the size and half the cost?
Surnetics gives you more than “just a coating”. Using our surface energy gradient coatings, your products can move and manage liquid flows without a pump or controller. Or, you can use our technology to provide a preferred flow path for your liquids, so you can use less expensive pumps and control systems. In addition, we can deliver different liquid flow rates for channels on a single layer, letting you shrink the size of your product and reduce manufacturing costs – no more complicated serpentine channels, less valve systems, less total layers.
Surnetics has the technology, capabilities, and intellectual property portfolio to get your products to the market faster. Partnering with Surnetics gives your company the tools that can overcome many of your cost, performance, and right-to-practice issues.
Our Technology
Surnetics’ technology optimizes the surface energy of your device to provide the best level of flow control in your device. A unique advantage we have is our ability to create a surface coating with a gradient in surface energy. The founders of Surnetics have patented this technology, and Surnetics is the only company that can offer this technology on a commercial scale.
Our technology for precise coatings that can manage liquid flows in microfluidic devices lets you achieve:
- Directed motion of liquid droplets
- Self-propelled fluid control
- Predictable flow rates in channels
- Managing different flow rates on a single layer
- Reduced variability in process operations and analytical testing
- Simplicity in manufacturing and improved reliability
- Chemical compatibility with materials and applications
Our Capabilities
In addition to our proprietary and patented products and processes, Surnetics has the experience and expertise to solve your problems. In addition to our surface gradient coating technology, our additional capabilities in coating and dispensing, product manufacturing, and testing can help you with all your microfluidic product needs.
- Dispensing and coating technologies
- Material and surface testing
- High Volume Manufacturing
- Product and Process Design
Our Intellectual Property
We have issued and pending patents on our technology and products. The founders of Surnetics were the leaders in developing solutions for moving liquid in microfluidic products.
- Our IP can improve our customers’ ability to enter a market
- Our IP can aid our customers’ in addressing potential competitor threats to their market.
Please contact us if you are interested in licensing any of Surnetics gradient coating technology.