DFI’s award-winning technology, patented in the US and
worldwide as Diamon-Fusion®, utilizes a chemical vapor deposition proprietary system.
Diamon-Fusion® transforms the treated substrate into an easy-to-clean surface,
being applicable to most surfaces containing silica (silicon dioxide) such as glass,
ceramic tile, porcelain, quartz, and granite, among the most common ones.
DFI's proprietary chemicals are friendly to the environment
and react with the moisture on the surface and the silica in the substrate (to be
treated) thus generating a two-stage chemical process:
Stage 1
The chemical reaction created in the first stage causes a “cross-linked” and “branched”
silicone film to be grown from below the surface out. After converting the chlorine
atoms to OH groups using additional moisture (chlorine was left at the end of the
atom chains after the first stage), a second specially formulated chemical is introduced
to the surface.
Stage 2
The second stage ‘caps’ the entire chain of atoms. This unique ‘capping’ substantially
increases the hydrophobicity and durability, leaving, chemically speaking, no points
of attachment for contaminants and creating a truly repellant charge.
DFI’s NANO-CHEMISTRY
The chemical reaction bonds to form an ultra-thin protective layer of optically
clear durable material, a "web-like" nano structure, making the surface significantly
easier to clean and more resistant to weathering. This method is done at
nano-scale levels, thus also called ‘nano-chemistry’, which is a length scale
of approximately 1 – 100 nanometer range (1 nanometer is 1/1,000,000,000 meter,
or 1 billionth of a meter). Nanometer dimensions are at the atomic dimension scale.
DFI’s COVALENT BOND
The bond created in the Diamon-Fusion® patented process is a covalent bond, the
strongest possible bond, in chemical terms that a hydrophobic coating can generate.
A covalent bond means that the coating shares the electrons within the glass itself,
thus becoming a part of the glass. Covalent Bonds are approximately 10 times stronger
than hydrogen-bridge bonds, which are commonly present in most other water
repellent coatings.