Modern vehicles and consumer electronics share a surface challenge that is easy to state and hard to solve: they are covered in materials that need protective coatings, and most effective protective coatings require curing temperatures that would damage those materials.
OLED panels begin to degrade above specific temperature thresholds. TPU film, used across automotive paint protection wraps and exterior trim, has limited thermal tolerance. Polycarbonate lenses on camera housings and LIDAR sensor windows warp under heat. The standard hard coating chemistries that produce durable, scratch-resistant, hydrophobic surfaces require curing conditions that exclude these substrates.
The Nanize answer is specific: full curing below 70 degrees Celsius in under 60 seconds, with no catalyst required. This single process characteristic opens the technology to every substrate that high-temperature coatings cannot touch.
Havard Lillebo, CFO and co-founder of Nanize, points to automotive and electronics as two of the largest addressable markets in the Nanize commercial pipeline. The sub-70-degree curing process is not a minor technical feature in these industries. It determines whether the coating can be used at all on the materials that need it most.
Automotive Exteriors: Sensors, Wraps, and Plastics
Modern vehicles carry more plastic on their exteriors than any previous generation. Headlamp covers, camera housings, LIDAR sensor windows, radar module covers, trim pieces, and TPU protective films over paint. Each surface has functional requirements beyond appearance: scratch resistance, water and dirt repulsion, optical clarity over years of UV exposure, and the ability to survive temperature cycling and road debris.
TPU paint protection film is a specific and growing application. The film is flexible, clear, and impact-absorbing. Its thermal tolerance is limited, which has historically made it difficult to apply high-performance surface treatments. Nanize-coated TPU repels marker ink and wipes clean without residue. Testing against conventional coatings showed that standard options allow ink penetration or leave ghosting after wiping. Nanize-coated TPU does not.
Automotive cameras and LIDAR systems present a related problem. As vehicle autonomy increases, the functional reliability of optical sensors becomes a safety-critical question. A camera lens or LIDAR window that accumulates road grime faster than rain or wipers can clear it is not an aesthetic issue. It is a functional one. Nanize coatings applied to sensor covers reduce contamination accumulation and improve the effectiveness of passive cleaning by rain or low-pressure rinse. Curing below 70 degrees means these coatings can be applied at the component manufacturing stage, before assembly, without thermal risk to the optical substrate.
Automotive Supply Chain Integration
Automotive supply chains qualify materials and processes over long timelines. Tier-one suppliers and OEMs require UV resistance, salt spray corrosion resistance, abrasion testing, and adhesion performance across temperature extremes before a new coating enters production use.
Nanize coatings have undergone lab validation across these parameters. Application uses spray and roll processes already operating in automotive component manufacturing. The coating chemistry is new. The application equipment is not. For suppliers beginning qualification, the data package is available through the Nanize commercial team.
Electronics: The Fingerprint, the OLED, and the Moisture Problem
Touch screens attract fingerprints by design. The interface requires skin contact and oil transfer is a physical inevitability. Standard oleophobic coatings on display glass reduce fingerprint visibility for a period, then abrade away. The fingerprint resistance of a two-year-old phone screen is noticeably worse than a new one for exactly this reason.
Nanize polysilazane coatings produce smudge-repellent surfaces that outlast standard oleophobic treatments on longevity, because the coating is covalently bonded to the substrate rather than deposited as a surface treatment. A covalently bonded layer does not abrade in the same manner.
The OLED constraint is where the Nanize low-temperature process is most significant in electronics. OLED panels are used in premium smartphones, automotive interior displays, and wearable devices. The organic compounds that produce their light output degrade above specific temperature thresholds. Most high-performance hard coatings cannot be applied directly to OLED panels because the curing process would damage the panel before the coating could protect it. Nanize cures fully below 70 degrees Celsius, within the safe thermal window for OLED substrates, opening the possibility of protective coatings at the panel level rather than only at the cover glass.
Moisture ingress is a third application. Conformal coatings applied over assembled electronics protect circuit boards, sensor arrays, and OLED panels against humidity and condensation. Most current conformal coatings require elevated temperatures or UV exposure during curing, limiting what can be coated after assembly. Nanize’s sub-70-degree process allows protective polysilazane coatings on sensitive assembled electronics without thermal risk.
Polysilazane surfaces also have inherently low charge accumulation compared to most polymer coatings, adding practical anti-static value in manufacturing environments and consumer electronics alike.
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