State of the Art in Corrosion Protection

Developed by Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Distributed by Conservation by Design Limited CORROSION INTERCEPT® is a revolutionary, patented technology which uses semi-conductor technology to transform plastic into a protective reactive barrier against corrosive gases, fungus and bacteria. It is comprised of highly reactive copper particles bonded into a polymer matrix. This matrix film forms a preferential corrosion site that reacts and neutralises all corrosive gases that pass through or come in contact with the film. It is statistically improbable that they can migrate through the Intercept film without contacting and reacting with one of the active corrosion sites.

Corrosion Intercept® provides a unique and effective protection for copper, silver, brass. bronze, ferrous and non ferrous metals. It has also been successfully used to protect CD’s, photographic prints, film, textiles, paintings, books and other works of art on paper. This inert material does not give off any harmful gases and is unaffected by moisture, humidity or temperature and it has a built in saturation indicator. When the copper colour turns black it is time to change the Intercept. The protection against corrosion is approximately 10 years per 1 mil thickness of Intercept.

STATIC INTERCEPT® combines the unequalled protection of Corrosion Intercept with added protection against ESD — Electrical Static Discharge. Static Intercept can be distinguished from the copper coloured Corrosion Intercept by its darker bronze colour.

Only Intercept products react with and permanently neutralise corrosive gases and in addition act as passive fungicides and bactericides.

Ozone and reactive Oxygen cause the aluminium layer on CD’s to breakdown. When aluminium in a thin film oxidises it beomes clear and unable to reflect the laser pulse attempting to read the CD. Intercept CD Inserts protect against this failure. These inserts are identical to the common black ones which are harmful to the CD’s. Simply discard your black hubs and replace with copper Intercept Hubs for long term protection.

Z Shows 10 years exposure to sulphur in a standard commercially available tri-fold coin book = Coins ruined. The same book lined with Intercept = Coins with no corrosion

ADVANTAGES OF CORROSION INTERCEPT

• Reacts with and permanently neutralizes corrosive gases. 
• Creates a torturous path for gases, fungus and bacteria
• Intercept is not a VCI
• Provides cost savings by eliminating secondary
  cleaning operations often required with VCI protections
• Leaves no deposits on any product it protects.
• Corrosion protection life several times that of other methods.
• 1 mil thickness of Intercept gives 10 years corrosion protection.
• Cleanses trapped air of all corrosive gases
• Built in saturation indicator
• Environmentally friendly by being fully recyclable
• Completely free from volatile chemicals
• Effective corrosion protection for: Silver, Copper, Brass, Bronze, Ferrous Metals & Galvanic Corrosion
• Passes the PAT Test at Rochester Institute of Technology.

WHICH METHOD OF PROTECTION?
Molecular Sieves, Activated Charcoal or Corrosion Intercept® Technology?

Gases like all chemicals desire to react and become electrically or chemically neutral. It is this driving force that is not addressed with products that only absorb gases. Neither Molecular Sieves nor Activated Charcoal scavenge the air removing corrosive gases. They merely trap and do not react with the gases

Activated Charcoal and Molecular Sieves eventually become full and have the potential to release the trapped gases in a higher concentration. The most frequently asked question about these kind of traps is:

Q. How can we tell when they are full?
Sophisticated monitoring equipment perhaps or wait until the
objects start tarnishing?

A. Realistically you can’t tell when they are full.

The material is self-indicating. As the copper particles become reacted they darken and eventually the whole plastic becomes blackened as the pure copper particles are used up and
exhausted. It can even be used as an environmental monitor for gauging the continued effectiveness of activated charcoal and other trap type protection products.

Conservation By Design Limited are pleased to have been appointed as distributors to the European Conservation and Preservation market for the Corrosion and Static Intercept® range of products.

PRODUCT RANGE

Products are available to meet your most demanding applications.
This product range is continually developing but includes the following:

• Corrosion Intercept® — Polyethylene Film on Rolls

• Corrosion Intercept® — Film and Paper Laminate

• Static Intercept® — Inert Foam in a choice of thicknesses

• Corrosion Intercept® Bags

• POLYPROOF 2000® — Gas and Moisture Barrier Bags

• Corrosion Intercept® — CD Inserts

• NASA • Lucent Technologies
• The Royal Mint of England • National Archives of U.S.A.
• Guggenheim Museum, NYC Washington D.C.
• TRW Aerospace • National Botanical Archives,
• Raytheon Kew Gardens, London
• Delco Electronics • Sheffield Museums

TECHNICAL BULLETINS & INFORMATION SHEETS

	Conservation by Design — Protection of Metal Items
	Conservation by Design — Protection of Non-Metal Items
	Overview
	TB11 Corrosion of Copper
	TB23 Intercept Case Studies.
	TB25 Silver Protection
	TB28 Photographic Film Preservation
	TB29 Paper Preservation
	TB35 Clean Room Effectiveness
	TB36 Protection of Fiber Optics & Optical Systems
	TB37 Preserving Artworks, Photographs & Paintings
	State of the Art Corrosion Protection
	Gaseous Testing of Intercept Technology
	Using Static Intercept Packaging
	Static Intercept Export Bags
	Static Intercept Anti-Corrosive Permanently Static Dissipative Polyethylene Bags
	Corrosion Intercept Protection of Lead
	EMI Technical Data Sheet Corrosion Tapes - Circuits
	H2S Susceptibility of Au Plated Micro Circuit Frames
	Experiments on Corrosion Intercept CD Inserts 1998-2002 Jonathan S Farley MA ACR MIPC

PRICES AND INFORMATION