Aquapel (glass treatment)
Aquapel is a rain repellent glass treatment created by PPG Industries. It is a competitor to the more widely known Rain-X product, but unlike Rain-X, is not a silicone-based compound. Aquapel Glass Treatment consists of fluorinated compounds called fluoroalkylsilanes[1] which create a chemical bond with glass surfaces, causing water to bead up and roll off. Because of this chemical bond with glass, Aquapel is reported to last much longer than silicone-based rain repellents. Aquapel has gained popularity in microfluidic based biochemistry, specifically the Drop-Seq method pioneered by the McCarroll lab at Harvard.
External links
- Harvard's McCarroll Lab's Drop-Seq Page
- Official website for the Aquapel product
- Autoblog - Rain-X versus PPG Aquapel: Grudge Match (April 2006)
- University of Michigan Study: The Influence of Hydrophobic Windshield Coating on Driver Visual Performance (July 1997)
- Aquapel in Russia
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