Lumenous Device Technologies

Surface Treatment

Surface Treatment

Electropolishing

Your engineered devices require highly engineerable processes that interact to achieve high-performance surfaces.

 

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  • Improve corrosion resistance
    • Reduce surface free energy
    • Reduce surface area
  • Increase fatigue life
    • Reduce surface area
    • Improve corrosion resistance
    • Increase edge rounding
  •  Improve appearance – bright, smooth, easy to verify quality

  • Available for a wide range of metals including nitinol, stainless steel, and alloys of cobalt-chrome, tantalum, titanium, magnesium, zinc, and aluminum. 

  • Uniquely, Lumenous offers highly polished surfaces with the option highly rounded edges or minimal rounding

  • Electropolishing with What-You-Want, Where-You-Want-It: polishing characteristics with engineered variation in various locations on the specimen. 

    • Example: a highly rounded part with features that need to be sharp.

Other surface finishing processes

  • Chemical polishing/texturing
  • Mechanical polishing/texturing
    • Available with What-You-Want, Where-You-Want-It:  characteristics with engineered variation in various locations on the specimen.
  • Abrasive microblasting
    • Available with What-You-Want, Where-You-Want-It:  characteristics with engineered variation in various locations on the specimen.
  • Polishing with radius control (square-ish or large radius edges)
  • Etching
  • Passivation (ASTM F86, A380, A967, B600)

Other surface finishing processes

  • Chemical polishing/texturing
  • Mechanical polishing/texturing
    • Available with What-You-Want, Where-You-Want-It:  characteristics with engineered variation in various locations on the device.
  • Abrasive microblasting
    • Available with What-You-Want, Where-You-Want-It:  characteristics with engineered variation in various locations on the device.
  • Polishing with radius control (square-ish or large radius edges)
  • Etching
  • Passivation (ASTM F86, A380, A967, B600)