University of Massachusetts

Security Matters Ltd.

Tehila Nahum

Joey L Mead

Carol M F Barry

Hanna Dodiuk-Kenig

Artee Panwar

Samuel Kenig

Jason Constantinou

Sagar Mitra

Haggai Alon

Nadav Yoran

Tzemah Kislev

Mor Kaplinsky

Avital Trachtman

Michal Firstenberg

Chen Nachmias

Nataly Tal

Hagit Sade

Dana Gasper

Ron Dafni

An object has a superhydrophic, self-cleaning, and icephobic coating includes a substrate and a layer disposed on the substrate, the layer resulting from coating with a formulation having an effective amount of microstructuring microparticles, liquid silane having one or more groups configured to graft to a microstructuring microparticle and at least another group that results in hydrophobicity. The microstructuring microparticles are dispersed in the liquid silane. Another effective amount of synthetic adhesive, selected from thermosetting adhesives, moisture curing adhesives or polymers that form a strong interaction with a surface, is in solution with a solvent. Upon curing, the layer has a contact angle greater than 90&#xb0; and a sliding angle of less than 10&#xb0; and, less than 5% of an area of the layer is removed in a Tape test.

Methods and formulations for superhydrophic, self-cleaning, and icephobic polymer coatings and objects having coatings thereon

An object has a durable superhydrophic, self-cleaning, and icephobic coating includes a substrate and a layer disposed on the substrate, the layer resulting from coating with a formulation having an effective amount of hierarchical structuring micro/nanoparticles, liquid silane having one or more groups configured to graft to a hierarchical structuring micro/nanoparticle and at least another group that results in hydrophobicity. The hierarchical structuring micro/nanoparticles are dispersed in the liquid silane. Another effective amount of synthetic adhesive, selected from thermosetting binders, moisture curing adhesives or polymers that form a strong interaction with a surface, is in solution with a solvent. Upon curing, the layer has a contact angle greater than 90&#xb0; and a sliding angle of less than 10&#xb0; and, less than 5% of an area of the layer is removed in a Tape test.

Methods and formulations for durable superhydrophic, self-cleaning, and superhydrophobic polymer coatings and objects having coatings thereon

There are disclosed a method of producing an XRF readable mark, the XRF readable mark and a component comprising thereof. The method comprises providing an XRF marking composition with specific relative concentrations of one or more chemical elements and fabricating a multilayer structure of the XRF readable mark. The relative concentrations are selected such that in response to irradiation of the XRF marking composition by XRF exciting radiation, the XRF marking composition emits an XRF signal indicative of a predetermined XRF signature. Fabricating the multilayer structure comprises implementing an attenuation layer with at least one element exhibiting high absorbance for an XRF exciting radiation and/or an XRF background; and implementing a marking layer comprising said XRF marking composition.

Method and a system for XRF marking and reading XRF marks of electronic systems

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