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January 09 2023 Silicon coating properties

How to Know if a CVD Coating is Still Performing

How do you know if your coating is still performing as it should? We get this question quite often and the answer is... not that simple. Each situation is different, which makes it difficult to...

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November 11 2022 LC & GC Chromatography

How Dursan Coated Hardware Optimizes HPLC Analysis

Dursan Coated Hardware Outperforms Traditional Approaches to Combating HPLC Issues The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) is a yearly event that is held for scientists and students to share papers,...

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October 21 2022 Chemical Inertness

CVD Coating Improves Reliability of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Analysis

If you are performing an analysis using a sampling system, there can be many roadblocks in the way of obtaining accurate and reliable results. One of the most frustrating of these is adsorption,...

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October 14 2022 Chemical Inertness

How Dursan Bio-Inert Coating Enhances HPLC Applications

Get Information About the Benefits of Dursan Coated Analytical Flow Paths Dursan® is a functionalized silica-like coating (a-SiOX:CYHZ) that creates a barrier between your sample and the surface of...

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October 07 2022 Silicon coating properties

Boost Performance in Low Temperature Environments

Some people welcome the leaves turning, lower temperatures, and are enjoying their pumpkin spice lattes. If you're anything like me, this time of the year is always a drag. As the weather inches...

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September 09 2022 SilcoTek

Can SilcoTek Coatings be Removed and Re-Applied?

SilcoTek’s high performance CVD coatings are used to enhance material performance in a variety of demanding applications. Any coating from any supplier will eventually degrade in highly challenging...

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August 26 2022 SilcoTek

How to get Better Coating Performance at High Temperatures

SilcoTek® recommends customers who use coated stainless-steel parts in high temperature applications (over 450°C) to preheat the parts prior to sending them in for coating. This recommendation was...

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July 08 2022 Process Analytical

Challenges to Coating Pressure Gauges

Pressure gauges have been around for a long time. So why are they hard to coat? We discuss pressure gauge basics and why they're not coated. Challenges to Coating Pressure Gauges The most common...

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May 27 2022 Chemical Inertness

Common CVD Coating Terms Defined

Functionalized, amorphous, bond, lattice, bulk? What do all these confusing terms mean? In this blog we explain common CVD coating terms. Common CVD Coating Terms Defined We often describe SilcoNert®...

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