Custom Formulation Service for Printable and Dispensable Materials
Dycotec Materials' custom formulation service develops printable and dispensable materials to a customer specification when no standard product is suitable. Composition and rheology are tailored to targets such as adhesion, conductivity and long term reliability, and every material is developed to be compatible with existing deposition equipment and with high volume production processes.
What Is a Custom Formulation Service?
The evolving landscape of printed electronics, driven by advances in applications, deposition processes, and the use of flexible and stretchable substrates, often makes the development of new materials necessary, because standard products may not be suitable.
We tailor our materials to meet the exacting specification requirements of our customers. We work in close collaboration to ensure materials developed can be readily adopted in production, by ensuring the inks are compatible with existing process technology including deposition techniques such as ink jet, screen and syringe printing. Alongside rheological characteristics, we tailor composition to meet specification requirements such as adhesion, conductivity and long term reliability.
Which Material Types Can Be Formulated?
- Thick film pastes
- Printed electronics materials
- Coating materials with specific optical properties
- Functional materials, for example battery, piezoelectric and piezoresistive
- Assembly materials, including barrier layers, encapsulants, underfills and adhesives
- Thermal interface materials, including reduced bond line thickness, tailored thermal conductivity, pads and sheets, and pre-preg materials
Not sure whether a standard product already covers your requirement? Search the product range first, or ask us directly
What Development Facilities Support the Work?
Analytical and Characterisation Facilities
We have extensive facilities to develop material sets, including:
- Laser particle analysis, scanning electron microscopy, optical microscopy and profilometry
- ICP-OES
- Thermogravimetric analysis, differential scanning calorimetry and thermo-mechanical analysis
- FTIR, UV-VIS and fluorescence spectroscopy
- A suite of electrical and thermal characterisation tools
- A suite of tensiometers and hardness testing tools
- Surface tensiometers and contact angle analysis
Nanomaterial and Polymer Synthesis
In addition to our material formulation capabilities, we can develop, synthesise and characterise nanomaterials, and develop and synthesise polymer systems. This means a formulation is not limited to commercially available raw materials where the specification calls for something that does not yet exist.
Why Choose Dycotec for Custom Formulation?
Rapid development cycles
Materials optimised specifically for your application, including nanoparticle production and polymer synthesis
Extensive printing and durability testing to lower risk before entering mass production
Tailored quality controls
All materials developed to be compatible with high volume production processes
Start a Custom Formulation Enquiry
The fastest route is to tell us four things: the substrate, the deposition process, the cure or fire temperature ceiling, and the performance target you need to hit.
- Get in touch to speak to a formulation engineer.
- Request a quotation if you have an existing specification to price.
- See all Dycotec services if formulation is one part of a wider development programme.
- Call +44 (0) 1793 299500, Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:00 UK time.