Robert Boschgmbh

Habibullah Ahmad

Franz Laermer

Christoph Lang

Gary Yama

Seow Yuen Yee

Christopher Johnson

Nadezda Fomina

Ning Wang

Jochen Hoffmann

Young Shik Shin

Patrick A Staley

A system for selectively carbonizing a polymer coating on a substrate includes a laser, a memory, and a controller. The memory stores data associated with at least one characteristic of a substrate having a coating that includes a polymer material. The controller is operatively connected to the laser, and is configured to control the laser based on the data such that, in an open-air environment, an interaction between the laser and the polymer material carbonizes a portion of the coating, but does not sustain combustion of the polymer material. A method of producing an article with a selectively carbonized coating includes controlling a laser system such that interaction between a laser and a polymer material forming a coating on a substrate carbonizes a portion of the coating, but does not sustain a combustion of the polymer material in an open-air environment.

Laser carbonization of polymer coatings in an open-air environment

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Habibullah Ahmad