SBIR/STTR Research Award
Self-Healing, Self-Cleaning Optical Coatings
Award amount
$111,489Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2020Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- GVD CORP
- Proposal award date
- 2020-06-19
- Contract end date
- 2021-01-16
- UEI
- M73MDQHXXHY1
- Solicitation number
- 20.1
- Topic code
- A20-046
Research abstract
To provide the warfighter with a self-cleaning, self-healing coating for optics, GVD Corporation and SCHOTT North America propose to develop a variation of GVD’s commercially successful polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, aka Teflon) fluoropolymer coating technology. This variation is superhydrophobic, and so any condensed moisture will roll off of the optic surface and perform a ‘self-cleaning’ of the surface. Due to the coating’s nature, any nicks or damage to the surface will have a ‘self-healing’ property and will not result in a reduction of its superhydrophobic behavior.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Aerospace Particle Coatings for Improved Environmental Protection
- Conformal coatings to enhance biocarriers for rapid-startup of biofilm reactors
- Passive Electrostatic Precipitator Device for Radionuclide Monitor Systems
- Passive Electrostatic Precipitator Device for Radionuclide Monitoring Systems
- Low-Cost Manufacturing of High-Performance Ion Exchange Membranes for Electrodialysis using Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition
Awards with the same topic code
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Research funding history
42 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2025). Reported award amounts total $22,159,942. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration