1. Advanced tooling
NRC technologies can be used
for manufacturing advanced
tooling:
• Dies, stamps, cavities and inserts
with optical/semi-optical surface
quality (as low as Ra/Sa 1 nm) and
high accuracy (as low as ±1 µm)
• Ultra-high aspect ratio EDM
electrodes (up to 1:280)
• Flexible tooling on thin metal foils
(as low as 35 µm) for enhanced hot
embossing, injection molding and
roll-to-roll fabrication
Topographic featuring to
enhance surface functionality
NRC technologies can be also used for
creating topographical features and
Innovative
Surface
Engineering
The National Research
Council Canada’s (NRC)
Specialty Coatings and
Microfabrication Team pro-
vides its industry clients with
innovative ­solutions using a
broad spectrum of surface
engineering technologies.
Capitalizing on decades
of extensive research and
­development, NRC experts
can provide your company
a competitive advantage
through access to knowledge-
based technologies, world-
class expertise, and state
of the art facilities.
Building on our past success,
we are committed to work
with you to enhance perfor-
mance, improve fabrication
processes, and add new
product functionalities.
Automotive and Surface Transportation
Specialty Coatings
and Microfabrication
World-class expertise in surface
engineering technologies
A full range of surface and microfabrication
technology solutions
NRC offers your company an entire toolbox of surface engineering and
microfabrication expertise. NRC can help improve the performance of your
automotive components, prolong the life of your tooling and cutting tools,
increase the storage capacity of batteries or produce low-cost, high-quality
functional prototypes.
NRC’s R&D team has developed
several unique processes to deposit
specific coatings for:
• Friction reduction, wear and
­corrosion resistance for automotive:
- powertrain
- transmission systems
- body panels
• Smart films for glass components
to better control vehicle cabin
temperature and improve fuel
efficiency.
• Hard coatings to extend the life
of tooling including 3D prints for
rapid tooling.
• Special electrical and magnetic
insulation coatings to reduce size
and cost of electric motor
components.

2. At your service
There are many easy ways to work with NRC, from
collaborative research projects, to fee-for-service and
technology licencing. Contact us today and find out
how our experts can help you.
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Contact
Evgueni Bordatchev
Team Leader
Tel.: 519-430-7107
Evgueni.Bordatchev@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Peter Banks
Business Management
Tel.: 519-430-7020
Peter.Banks@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
micro/nano-geometries to add value
and enhance surface functionalities:
• Drag reduction
• Controlled adhesion
• Surface contacts
• Stickiness and wetting properties
• Controlled optical properties
Energy harvesting, storage
and conversion
New materials, design, simulation
and prototype fabrication:
• High performance active materials
and catalysts
• Nanomaterials
• Corrosion resistant and high
surface area current collectors
• Ceramic coated separators to
improve the safety of batteries,
fuel cells, and supercapacitors
• Energy efficient windshields and
solar control smart windows with
advanced micro-optics
Functional prototyping and
tooling surface restoration/repair
NRC can help you significantly reduce
new product development costs with
functional prototyping.
Our microfabrication technologies allow
the fabrication of functional plastics
prototypes with excellent optical
surface quality and ultra-high precision
without tooling. This could be especially
usueful in automotive lighting.
NRC’s patented and licensed
electrolytic coating technologies can
enhance and enable the functionalities
of 3D printed prototypes using:
• Stereolithography apparatus (SLA)
• Selective laser sintering (SLS)
• Fused deposition modeling (FDM)
NRC’s laser technologies can be
also applied to surface polishing
and repair through the re-flowing,
re-melting and restoration.
Advanced sensors and
low cost micro-systems
• Sensing elements for temperature,
strain, gas and surface plasmon
resonance
• Micro-mechanisms
• Flexible printable electronics,
optics and microfluidics
Facilities
Coatings
• Chemical vapor deposition
• Magnetron sputtering and
plasma systems
• Large-area pulsed laser deposition
• Electron beam deposition
Laser micromachining
• Multi-axis work stations
• Nano, pico and femtosecond
pulsed lasers
• Micro electric discharge
machining (EDM)
• Micro-welding
Specialty Coatings and Microfabrication
Laboratory equipment
• State-of-the-art digital microscopes
• Non-contact optical profilometer
(1Å vertical resolution)
• Surface/geometry characterization
instruments
Key technologies and expertise
The following key surface engineering
and microfabrication technologies
can be utilised to decrease cost and
production time, add value, enhance
performance and functionalities, and
increase life span, quality and accuracy
of your products and processes:
• Vacuum based deposition and
surface modification using magnetron
sputtering, pulsed laser, electron
beam, and plasma enhanced
chemical vapor deposition systems
• Electrolytic and plasma electrolytic
deposition using patented scalable
and low cost technologies such
as chemical and electrochemical
conversion coating, acoustic immer-
sion coating, plasma electrolytic
oxidation
• Five-axis micromachining including
micromilling, fly cutting, single point
cutting, drilling, texturing, structur-
ing, grooving and patterning, laser
micromachining and polishing