MultiTran - Measurement of the permeability of ultra-high performance barrier layers

MultiTran - 超高性能阻隔层渗透性的测量

• 批准号: 710808
• 金额: $ 11.19万
• 依托单位: QI INSTRUMENTS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Proof of Concept
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=710808
• 关键词: MultiTran; Measurement; permeability; ultra; performance

High performance barrier layers prevent the passage of atmospheric oxygen and moisture,along with other species such as carbon dioxide and ethylene, to/from the materials anddevices they protect. The analytical instrumentation used to qualify such barrier layers is agrowth market with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of >20%and projected to be>£140 million by 2021. The market divides between the established speciality packagingmarket for foods and pharmaceuticals etc. growing at GDP rates +5% and the emergingplastic electronics markets with a CAGR of >50%. To achieve the required device lifetimes of>10 years requires ultra-high performance barrier layers with water vapour transmission rates(WVTR) of 1.0 10-6 g/m2/day. Such transmission rates are 100x below that measureable withcommercially available instrumentation today.We plan to demonstrate an instrument that can measure WVTR to the levels required andultimately tap into this unmet need of the emerging plastic electronics market. The techniqueis based on an innovative new type of mass spectrometer ionisation source using plasma toionise the species of interest and is protected by a pending patent application. We willdemonstrate the performance of the instrument using both calibrated samples obtainedthrough the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and samples from prospective customers.The unique ability of a mass spectrometer to measure multiple species simultaneously willalso allow a single unit of our instrument to replace multiple single species measurementinstruments currently being used throughout the speciality packaging market.

高性能屏障层可防止大气氧和水分以及其他物种（例如二氧化碳和乙烯）的通过，从其保护的材料和驱动器中通过/从材料中。用于验证此类障碍层的分析仪器的增长年度增长率（CAGR）> 20％> 20％，到2021年为1.4亿英镑。在既定的食品和药品和药品等特殊包装市场之间的市场差异，以GDP +5％的GDP率 +5％，以及EmereringPlastic Electronics Markets，占CR> 50％。为了实现> 10年的所需设备寿命，需要超高的性能屏障层，水蒸气传输速率（WVTR）为1.0 10-6 g/m2/天。这样的传输速率低于今天用市售仪器测量的100倍。我们计划演示可以将WVTR测量到所需水平的仪器，并最终涉及新兴塑料电子市场的这种未满足的需求。这些技术基于创新的新型质谱仪电离源，使用等离子体典型化的物种，并受到待处理的专利应用的保护。我们将使用通过国家物理实验室（NPL）获得的校准样品和潜在客户的样品来阐明仪器的性能。质谱仪测量多个物种的独特能力仅使我们的单个单元允许我们的单个单元替换当前在整个专业包装市场中都使用的多个单个物种测量仪器。