Damage Indicating Paints
Damage Indicating Paints
Sensor Products introduces DIP®, Damage Indicating Paint. DIP is designed to be coated or sprayed onto your product, part or component. DIP® is designed to serve as a visual (or non-visible ultraviolet) indicator revealing both the location as well as degree of contact that an object has sustained or been exposed to.
Tiny microcapsules (from 1 to 100 microns), are suspended in the liquid paint. When the surface thats been painted has been subject to some sort of minimal contact, the microcapsules rupture (see step 2) causing an instantaneous and permanent color marking (see
step 3).
These capsules contain what is called a colorformer material, and when it’s released it interacts with a catalyst material to produce this color change. We can also encapsulate non visible (ultraviolet) color changing agents that would only be visible upon exposure to certain lighting conditions.
DIP® is a microcapsule based liquid paint. This paint is coated onto a surface and dries within 6 to 12 hours. Generally the color starts as a neutral white; however any color could theoretically be the formulated. Resultant, or after-impact color, can be selected from 10 standard color offerings (formulated to your specifications). Our scientist and chemist tailor DIP® to precisely match your requirements. Given the vast permutations of substrate type, texture, environmental exposure conditions and pressure all our DIP® coatings are custom produced.
Our DIP’s can be delivered in dry, powder, or slurry form for application by the user. Alternatively Sensor Products could assist in identifying an appropriate contractor who can apply the coating.
