Photonic Pigments | e-skin Displays, Inc

e-skin Photonic Coatings

Coatings created from the first ever Structural Color Photonic Pigments in the world

Ultra-light Weight
Energy Saving
Non-Toxic Structural Color Coatings, Paint, Ink, Dye

Our Photonic Pigments can cool below surfaces by up to 30 degrees Fahrenheit as they reflect 100% of the Infrared radiation

Photonic color will never fade as it is structural color

Photonic pigments are non-toxic earth friendly and energy saving

Paints today pollute the environment and harm our health as well as affect fertility, contribute to global warming, contaminate drinking water, contain toxic metals in paint that can cause cancer and use vast quantity of water supplies

So what is the problem ?

Paints today are made up of mineral and chemical based pigments, contain heavy metals and biocides that pollute rivers land (agriculture), affect fertility, etc.

The pigments absorb heat and transfer it to underlying layers increase temperature increasing cooling costs

Electricity cost highest in peak summer
Costs $$ to cool a home or a building

So what is the Solution ?

e-skin has invented the world’s first Photonic Pigments that can be made into Photonic paint, coatings, ink, dyes

The Photonic Pigments

are made from colorless materials with nanostructures that create structural color as in nature like the wings of a butterfly or the feathers of a peacock

are non-toxic, earth friendly, energy saving
are created from just two materials aluminum and an oxide
the color gamut covers all the colors in the CYM space
they never fade, becomes dull or loses brightness

Passive Cooling

The e-skin Photonic Pigments can cool below surfaces by up to 30 degree Fahrenheit. This is called passive cooling as no electricity is need to cool.

To show case this, we painted two prototype houses, the one on the left painted with commercial paint purchased from home depot and the the prototype house on right painted with paint mixed from the e-skin Photonic Pigments

We turned on a sun lamp to measure the heat transferred. The heat was measured with thermal sensors inside of the prototype houses.

As seen on the display the house painted with e-skin Photonic Pigments is 30 degree cooler as all of the infrared radiation is reflected back, while the house painted with the commercial paint absorbs the heat generated by the sun lamp and transfers it to the underlying layers.

Ultralight Weight Paint

Each Photonic Pigment is 100 nm in thickness and about 10 micron in width with 1:1000 aspect ratio and extremely light weight.

A coat of photonic paint can be as thin as 100nm compared to 10-100 microns for conventional paint.

For an airline every pound of weight saved is $$ saved in fuel consumption.

Application Ideas

The Photonic pigments can be applied as direct coating or spray coated with existing spray guns similar to conventional paint

Directly Coating Surfaces

The Photonic Pigments can be directly depoisted using a PVD process, see example below.

100 nm Thick Multi-Layer Stack Directly Grown on Any Surface

Spray Painting

The Photonic Pigments can be mixed with resin, stablizer to make paint which can then be spray painted. We have spray painted a butterfly image with various colors, see below.