Product improvement

The pigment charge at the origin of the color of your product can become problematic for regulatory, technical, economic or resource depletion reasons.

Our mastery of color and its components allows us to replace the targeted material in the composition of your product, while preserving the original color that represents the identity of your brand on its market.

• Our R&D teams will first characterize the color, then break it down into physical properties of spectral distribution of wavelengths, opacity, brightness, etc.
• Then, we recreate the material through molecular engineering. In this improvement process, each of the components will be optimized within a single material (by successive alloying), or even a mixture of single pigments selected, for example, for their natural resources.

Do you want to improve a product to limit the impact of the heating of a product in the sun? The problem of urban heat islands represents a major environmental challenge for the construction sector, with new market opportunities to conquer.

One of our strengths in the course of products improvements is our multidisciplinary approach. This alchemy between materials science and photochemistry allows our research and development teams to rethink the architecture of an existing product. Depending on the nature of your project and materials improvement, we optimize the albedo of products, the coefficients of reflectivity, absorption, emission, etc.

Some customer requests lead us to create products with so-called "cold" colors, to limit as much as possible the interactions with the sun and its consequences on the heating of our cities in summer. Others products improvements are leading our teams to develop materials capable of darkening with the sun, in order to create natural shadow.

• To optimize the light fastness of an existing material (matrix), we first study the degradation processes using our equipment: accelerated aging chambers, climatic chambers, etc. The analysis of these data allows us to identify the solution and to improve your product. We will rethink the product to improve new functionality and coating: modify the pigment, propose a matrix and/or add additives to block the photodegradation process.
• To enhance the luminescent properties of an object, we need to rethink the photochemical cascade involved during the excitation and relaxation processes. We adjust the respective positions of the various excited states to improve the fluorescence and/or phosphorescence quantum yields as well as the day and night color rendering. This approach is performed at the pigment scale but also within the matrix for maximum optimization.

Are you planning to redesign an existing product or a concept that has already proven in the past? Smart materials offer multiple opportunities to introduce functionality, to revisit a product, to improve the customer experience, to give it a second life.

The integration of an intelligent material allows the color of a product to become adaptive to its environment. For example, an electric toaster may become sensitive to temperature to indicate excessive heat and a risk for a child.

We adjust the optical properties of materials on demand. Depending on market  expectations (materials improvement & marketing), we develop smart coatings that are reactive to temperature, light (photochromic and luminescent), pressure, and the presence of a solvent or gas.