VinTech Nano Materials: Adding value to equipment through nanoengineered coatings and lubricants

No matter the type of equipment, ensuring its safety and longevity is always one of the top priorities when investing in a product. However, most industries, like transport, trucking, and construction, require coating materials that are highly advanced and innovative versus standard lubricants and coatings available today. This ensures the life of the products and protects them from corrosion at a molecular level. Using nanoengineered lubricants and coatings delivers significantly higher results.

VinTech Nano Materials is a company that uses patented nanomanufacturing involving mechanochemical-assisted nanoarchitectonics to generate nanolubricants and coatings to meet advanced performance demands.

The foundation of VinTech Nano Materials

VinTech Nano Materials is a company with patented technology that creates and produces specialty materials using nanoengineered lubricants and coatings. VinTech develops technology that is manufactured with proprietary nanoscale engineering and solves complex issues related to friction, wear, and corrosion. These issues are prominent factors in the energy loss, degradation, and deterioration of equipment and machinery. VinTech technology substantially enhances the performance and longevity of machines.

VinTech specializes in manufacturing high-performance trademarked products in a commercial yet cost-effective way, based on advanced nanotechnology, nanomaterials, and nanotribology research and development. VinTech products serve a range of industries, including the energy sector (renewable and nonrenewable), automotive, transportation, flow equipment, marine, defense, and retail markets. These products provide high-value solutions to these industries by enhancing the functional life of critical components.

The company began commercial-scale production in 2014–2015 after over a decade of scientific research, product development, and customer testing by its best team of engineers. The company’s products have since been incorporated and validated by a range of popular, global customers. VinTech currently sells its multifunctional products via seven brands including nGLIDE, AtomLube, TriboTuff, AtomOil, GUARDx, nGUARD and TuffTek. These brands serve the $90 billion+ lubricants and lubricant additives market and the $130 billion+ coatings and coating additives market.

The ultimate mission of VinTech is to be a professionally managed manufacturer of proprietary, commercially viable nanotechnologies to improve the performance and efficiencies of various products and equipment used across industrial and commercial markets.

The philosophy of innovation at VinTech

VinTech Nano Materials, as a company, believes in continuous innovation in technology and improvement. It invests in hard-working scientists, engineers, and world-class laboratory facilities to incessantly innovate, develop, and engineer unique nanomaterial compositions and structures to improve product performance and reliability.

A recent innovative investment by VinTech is the nanoarchitectonics of organic self-assembled nanocarbon additive technology. This innovative R&D investment led to the development of three advanced additive technologies: engine lubricants, anti-galling coatings, and thermo-electric conductive polymers. The organofunctional nanostructured carbon and low concentrations of the additive can significantly improve friction and antiwear performance in engine oils while enhancing thermooxidative stability for better engine life and efficiency.

In addition, a variant of organofunctional nanocarbon showed high-performance electrical and thermal conductivity when used in polymer composites at a much lower concentration as compared to traditional conductive carbon.

VinTech utilizes the philosophy of continuous innovation while encouraging and nurturing a culture of collaborative innovation and creativity. It supports, challenges, and promotes its scientists, engineers, and other employees to cultivate new ideas and transform them into technological innovations. Their view simply suggests that continual improvement in products and services provides value to their customers and subsequently provides greater market differentiation. All employees at VinTech have the philosophy of continual improvement.

Innovative products and their gradual evolution at VinTech

As part of its continuous efforts towards innovation, VinTech Nano Materials is advancing nanotechnology and nanoparticle-based compositions for applications in the preservation of perishable food and CO2 capture. The company is making advancements in unique, non-toxic nanohybrids and nanocomposites that can increase the capabilities of packaging material in delaying the biodeterioration of food items at an ultra-low concentration. Simultaneously, the company’s scientists are working towards developing unique nanomaterial-based filtration membranes for energy-efficient CO2 capture.

To improve the life of critical components like rolling bearings that are used in main shaft applications, VinTech has developed a new class of organofunctional nanocarbon additives using advanced self-assembled carbon nanoarchitectonics for the application of greases and oils. This innovative 2D and 3D nanostructured additive has the capability of early tribochemical reactions to yield protective carbon-based tribofilms on the micro-asperity contact surfaces at all regimes of boundary to elastohydrodynamic lubrication. The products application in wind turbine lubricants has shown exceptional ability in reducing deleterious fretter wear and adhesive frictional loss while increasing load bearing capacity and thermo-oxidative stability for extended lubricant life and performance.

Additionally, VinTech offers high-performance lubrication for demanding manufacturing processes using advanced nanolubricant technologies with unique organic-inorganic nanohybrid compatibility. The company offers nanolubricants for die casting, plunger lubrication, and forging. The distinctive benefits of VinTech nanolubrication technology include extreme-pressure wear and tribocorrosion protection, asperity friction modification, thermal stability to enhance performance, productivity, and more.

Along with advanced nanolubrication technologies, VinTech has also pioneered unique nanohybrid materials for coating and finishing soft and hard surfaces. For coating hard surfaces, VinTech offers multiple nanoreinforced polymer coatings and hard-faced metal-ceramic (CERMET) coatings suitable for different substrates, dimensional configurations, and operating conditions.

VinTech’s highlights and the future of the company

VinTech Nano Materials recognizes the opportunity and the potential of introducing its patented nGlide® Self-Assembled Nanocarbon Additive Technology. This technology replaces Moly, also known as Molybdenum Disulfide, which is used as a dry lubricant additive in lubricating greases and oils, with an affordable, higher-performing additive package. nGlide® is the next generation of high-performance additives based on organic ligands self-assembly with inorganic carbon-based enhanced surface chemistry, antiwear, friction modification, antioxidant, electrothermal, corrosion inhibition, and nanoreinforcement characteristics. Its unique chemical structure allows for improved stability, which makes it compatible with a wide range of automotive and industrial lubricants.

Another recent innovation from VinTech is ARMOR GFC Coating, which offers galling, friction, and corrosion protection in one formulation. It is a nanoengineered tribological coating for preventing chemo-mechanical damage from aggressive wear, galling, and adhesive friction in corrosive environments. This innovative multi-component solution allows for ease of application and offers flexible curing options in ambient conditions and accelerated thermal curing.

ARMOR GFC’s ambient curing ability makes it ideal for onsite and offsite coating of multi-dimensional configuration components without disassembly or downtime. The solution eliminates the need for clients to rely on complex and costly third-party curing services. ARMORGFC offers unrivalled resistance against UV deterioration and develops early moisture and chemical resistance for interior and exterior applications in corrosive environments. It works even in sub-zero and low temperatures and can have built-in antimicrobial treatments.

Another product worth highlighting is the GUARDx™ Shield WHT, a nanopolysiloxane-based technology for providing better hydrophobicity and stain repellent properties to a treated article. This product is supplied as a water-based product (in a concentrate form and a ready-to-use formula), making it easy to dispense and apply. The product is applicable to a wide variety of exterior and interior surfaces, like textiles, carpets, rugs, foams, upholstery, exterior brick, wood-based structures, leather, paper, etc.

VinTech is determined to continue its growth and expansion of nanotechnology-based innovations to fuel the next generation of advanced lubricants, nanomaterial-based functional additives, and nanocoatings. The company is dedicated to becoming the next nanotechnology innovation leader that can provide sustainable technologies and solutions that maximize industrial productivity and improve quality of life and the environment.

A brief biography of the CEO

Rustom K. Mody P.E. is the CEO of VinTech Nano Materials. He has an MBA in Finance from the University of Houston and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, leading him to become a registered engineer in the state of Texas, USA. He holds more than 25 patents and is the author of over 80 articles, technical presentations, and publications. He has won numerous meritorious awards for engineering innovation in energy and has more than 45 years of experience in managing energy technologies.