Surround & the Electron Microscope
Why? It dries clear and dry like a crystallizing polymer, is strong and durable and won’t self-shatter like a film forming polymer. T2H has it all!
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| This exciting new T2H polymer allows for very clean and dry, dry downs that will hold the encapsulated soils longer than a straight crystallizing product. This means more dry soil protection and encapsulated soils that stay encapsulated until they are vacuumed off of the carpet fibers. Our T2H polymers will not self shatter and release soils and polymer back into the carpet just because the product dried. |  |
Did you know that the coating on a carpet fiber of encap polymer is under 1 micron thick? To put this into perspective, a pin head is about 2 millimeters. A drop of water on a microscope slide is approximately 1 millimeter. A micron is 1,000 times smaller than 1 millimeter. We’re talking a coating on the surface of a single carpet fiber that measures about 50 microns or 40xs smaller than a pinhead. So to pour the chemical full strength (20xs stronger than actual use dilution) into a glass for the currently excepted dry down test is 1,000 to 10,000 times thicker than the use of a product in the real world!
This exciting NEW T2H Hybrid Polymer allows for very clear and dry, dry downs that will hold the encapsulated soils longer than a straight crystallizing product. This means more dry soil protection and encapsulated soils that stay encapsulated until they are vacuumed off of the carpet fibers. Our T2H polymers will not self shatter and release soils and polymer back into the carpet just because the product dried. Surround used in real world conditions will not cement soil to the fiber. If poured in a glass the product may dry rather hard and would seem to not be easily removed. But again, in the real world the layer of polymer is so thin that it has to be exceedingly strong to encapsulate the soils and fibers when the polymer is under a micron thick. So naturally if you take this very strong polymer and increase the thickness of the coating like in the glass trick thousands of times thicker than in real world applications then its strength would also increase making the test inaccurate and unusable.
When used in the proper and designed for purpose, Surround exhibits excellent encapsulating properties. The majority of our new T2H Hybrid Polymer will vacuum off of the fibers in 3 to 6 vacuum cycles. This could be a week in an office building or several weeks in a home.
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Fun FactDid you know that the coating on a carpet fiber of encap polymer is under 1 micron thick? To put this into perspective, a pin head is 2 millimeters. A drop of water on a microscope slide is approximately one millimeter. A micron is 1,000 times smaller than 1 millimeter. We’re talking about a coating on the surface of a filament of carpet fiber that measures about 50 microns (40xs smaller than a pinhead) or a third the diameter of a human hair. So to pour the chemical full strength into a glass or on a plate for the currently accepted dry down test is 1,000 to 10,000 times thicker than the use of a product in the real world! |
See the entire report with pictures showing test results from 85 to 3000 times magnification from a $200,000 thousand dollar electron microscope as performed by Intertek labs. Click on the encap education box on our homepage.
See why Surround not only out cleans and smells better than the competition but why our polymers are also better.