Today's anti-fogs are a soap film. Ours is part of the surface: covalently bonded, it never washes or wears off.
400+ min
fog- and frost-free at −25 °C, 30% RH. 130× bare aluminum.
500
wash / wipe cycles and still fog-free (EN 168 §16).
4H
pencil hardness. Abrasion resistance comparable to aluminum.
92%
optical transmittance (ASTM D1003), clearer than every anti-fog we tested.
UncoatedFrosted over Aegis-ClearStays clear The world's first permanent anti-fog and anti-frost treatment. It is covalently bonded to the substrate, so it does not wash off or wear away, unlike conventional anti-fogs that leave a soap-like film behind.
0°
Aegis-Clear is superhydrophilic. Water is drawn into a continuous, fully wetting sheet instead of beading into droplets, so there is nothing to scatter light and fog never forms.
Water held against the grafted surface is energetically more stable as a liquid than as ice. It stays liquid and bound, so frost has no site to nucleate.
Biomimetic by design. Fish that live in perpetually freezing water do not freeze; our chemistry emulates how nature manages water at a surface.
UncoatedWater beads up and scatters light Aegis-Clear · 0° contact angleWater spreads into one clear sheet EN 168 §16 · coated polycarbonate lens
Minutes · 30% RH · cold chamber
mg · 1,000 cycles · CS-10 wheel · 1 kg · ASTM D4060
The conventional anti-fog film fails by 50 cycles.
Δhaze % · ASTM D1044 · CS-10F
On a heat-pump coil, Aegis-Clear beats every fin coating and heated defrost: zero defrost cycles, no airflow penalty, higher efficiency in the cold.
Increase after one season
Detroit heat-pump pilots · COP +18% at −8 °C · AHRI 210/240 rated · salt fog to 6,000 h (ASTM B117). Peer-reviewed in Environmental Science & Technology: about 40% lower winter emissions across 25 U.S. cities (simulated).
Nawawi, Tuteja and Vaishnav, University of Michigan. Simulating about 7,900 homes across 25 cold-climate U.S. cities, a coating that fully prevents frost cuts median winter emissions by about 40%.
Polycarbonate eyewear and goggles, glass, aluminum fins, copper tube, ceramic, steel and other metals. Primer tuned per substrate.
Electrostatic spray, HVLP spray, dip, roll or flow coat. UV or thermal cure. Drops into an existing coating line.
10–30 µm standard, 30–40 µm for optics, tested to 200+ µm with no change in impedance. Optical transmittance 90%+.
Inline camera, UV fluorescent tracer for coverage, breath or steam fog check, film-thickness gauge, cross-hatch per lot.
Incoming QC → wash + plasma → Aegis-Clear dip / flow coat → 80 °C cure, 10 min → QC: haze, fog chamber, cross-hatch → AR / mirror stack → frame assembly → lot certificate.
Fin-stock coil → alkaline clean → chrome-free pretreat → Aegis-Clear roll coat → cure → QC: film thickness + T-bend → stamp + expand → assembly → frost-chamber lot test.