LINQSTAT Electrically Conductive Plastic Film gets Tighter Specifications

As with most prod­uct lines, our LINQSTAT line of elec­tri­cal­ly con­duc­tive plas­tic films has grown so much that it has out­grown its orig­i­nal pur­pose. Orig­i­nal­ly designed to be a line of anti­sta­t­ic prod­ucts, cus­tomers start­ing ask­ing us more and more if we could increase the con­duc­tiv­i­ty of the plas­tic to make it more con­duc­tive. This meant that the prod­uct (though remain­ing anti­sta­t­ic) filled more of the role of an elec­tri­cal­ly con­duc­tive plas­tic film.

Some VCF-Series prod­ucts have been reclas­si­fied as MVCF-Series, and new prod­ucts have been intro­duced in the VCF‑, MVCF, and XVCF-Series.

The need for more electrically conductive plastic films

Orig­i­nal­ly designed for anti­sta­t­ic pack­ag­ing, CAPLINQ has fur­ther devel­oped its line of LINQSTAT elec­tri­cal­ly con­duc­tive plas­tic films to tru­ly be elec­tri­cal­ly con­duc­tive. Heav­i­ly-loaded plas­tic films com­pete with oth­er tech­nolo­gies that CAPLINQ offers such as graphi­tized car­bon paper and pan­els, and Acti­vat­ed Car­bon Fab­ric which are used pri­mar­i­ly for gas dif­fu­sion lay­ers for fuel cells and electrolyzers.

The advan­tage of the elec­tri­cal­ly con­duc­tive plas­tic film in this case is that they are avail­able on rolls and are not brit­tle (like the car­bon paper and pan­els), and they are very thin and con­tain the car­bon with­in the medi­um (as opposed to the acti­vat­ed car­bon fab­ric). Fur­ther­more, they are quite cost-effec­tive, mak­ing them attrac­tive for elec­trolyz­er appli­ca­tions look­ing to replace expen­sive cur­rent col­lec­tor parts.

Reclassification of LINQSTAT Electrically Conductive Plastic Films

As men­tion above, in many cas­es, there is no change at all to the old LINQSTAT VCF-Series prod­ucts. For exam­ple, the old prod­uct VCF-80036S/2 had a sur­face resis­tiv­i­ty val­ue of <200,000 ohms/square which is a very wide spec­i­fi­ca­tion. As we start­ed get­ting into more spe­cif­ic appli­ca­tions, cus­tomers start­ed request­ing tighter con­duc­tiv­i­ty tol­er­ances to meet more demand­ing appli­ca­tions. As a results, we split our VCF-Series busi­ness into three groups:

  1. LINQSTAT VCF-Series: Our low-lev­el elec­tri­cal­ly con­duc­tive plas­tic film with a sur­face resis­tiv­i­ty from 50,000 — 200,000 ohms/square
  2. LINQSTAT MVCF-Series: Our medi­um-lev­el elec­tri­cal­ly con­duc­tive plas­tic film with a sur­face resis­tiv­i­ty from 1,000 — 50,000 ohms/square
  3. LINQSTAT XVCF-Series: Our high-lev­el elec­tri­cal­ly con­duc­tive plas­tic film with a sur­face resis­tiv­i­ty from 1 — 1,000 ohms/square

The VCF-80036S/2 already was a more con­duc­tive prod­uct, and so the change in name reflects only a repo­si­tion­ing of its prop­er­ties, but no change chem­i­cal­ly to the prod­uct itself.

CAPLINQ is a spe­cial­ty plas­tics sup­pli­er offer­ing a range of con­duc­tive mate­ri­als includ­ing our broad range of elec­tri­cal­ly con­duc­tive plas­tics and anti­sta­t­ic tapes and films. If you have any ques­tions, please don’t hes­i­tate to con­tact us to find out how we can help you further.

About Chris Perabo

Chris is an energetic and enthusiastic engineer and entrepreneur. He is always interested in taking highly technical subjects and distilling these to their essence so that even the layman can understand. He loves to get into the technical details of an issue and then understand how it can be useful for specific customers and applications. Chris is currently the Director of Business Development at CAPLINQ.

3 thoughts on “LINQSTAT Electrically Conductive Plastic Film gets Tighter Specifications

  1. Can I buy lin­q­s­tat from you. Please let me know how to buy linqstat.

  2. I was look­ing for specs on lin­q­s­tat RF absorb­ing and reflec­tion. All I see are ohms per square. My hus­band is a sci­en­tist. After watch­ing youtube.com/watch?v=bX_oo1hr1ag at work he wrote this back,

    The engi­neer does it all wrong. A DMM won’t cut it. Even his approx­i­ma­tion is slop­py. He’s mea­sur­ing par­al­lel resis­tance of a 3‑leg cir­cuit with his body, the mate­r­i­al stack, and the ruler. He needs to wear insu­lat­ing gauntlets or not lean on the mate­r­i­al. He needs to sep­a­rate patch­es, not stack. Mea­sure one in iso­la­tion. He also needs a wood or paper ruler, not met­al or plas­tic, since he’s mea­sur­ing a plas­tic. And real­ly the cor­rect instru­ment, which is not a DMM.”

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