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Revolutionizing surface coatings for durability.
July 26, 2019
Chemical & Engineering News
Keys and dust particles can easily scratch up smartphone screens. But a new coating could make such abrasive actions inconsequential.
July, 2019
Advances in Engineering
Canadian researchers from the Department of Chemistry at Queen’s University: Kaka Zhang, Shuaishuai Huang, Jiandong Wang and led by Professor Guojun Liu developed a transparent polymer/inorganic hybrid coating that had a pencil hardness exceeding 9H and was simultaneously so flexible that a rectangularly-shaped sample of the resulting composite on a poly (ethylene terphthalate) (PET) substrate could be rolled into a tube.
January 29, 2026
CUHK-Shenzhen
Nanorock won Second Prize at the Fairy Lake International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, competing against 319 high-quality teams from around the world.
May 26, 2026
Launch Lab
Nanorock, a small spin-out from Queen’s University, has been creating a stir in the coatings industry with its unique recipe that already has major interest from the cell phone manufacturing industry.
June 24, 2026
Spark Centre
Traditional coating surfaces face a fundamental trade-off: either glass-like hardness that is prone to cracking under stress, or polymer-like flexibility that sacrifices scratch resistance. NanoRock is rethinking how we protect the surfaces we use every day.
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