TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OPPORTUNITY: SiloGetter

3D-Printed Siloxane Composites with Hydrogen Getter Capability Unwanted hydrogen is a silent threat inside sealed electronics, vacuum instruments and metal containers, where it clouds optics, embrittles metals and can build toward explosive levels. SiloGetter from Los Alamos National Laboratory answers that threat with a printable siloxane composite that captures hydrogen right at its source while carrying nearly 10 times the active getter content of earlier printed materials. Because the paste flows through nozzles as fine as 400 microns without clogging, protection can be shaped precisely to the geometry a device demands, and because the finished part keeps its strength instead of crumbling like a pressed pellet, that protection endures. The result is a rugged, made-to-fit hydrogen safeguard that quietly protects costly systems over the long term while absorbing more than 80% of the hydrogen it encounters. Overview The material relies on a straightforward principle carried out by tw…

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