Principle

BORPower^® was developed to reduce the fuel consumption and to extend the lifetime of engines. This is achieved by reducing friction and abrasion during motion via the hard-coating and bearing-ball effect. To understand these two features, take a look at the top figures that show a cylinder rubbing on the piston with or without BORPower^®.

BORPower^® contains the active ingredients boron diamond powder (MCDP) and nano boron. Under high pressure between two metal surfaces, the MCDP crystals are pressed into the material to form a coating shown as black layer in the figure on the top right. This coating is diamond-hard and at the same time very slippery. The nano boron forms a low-friction solid lubricant film in between these coatings shown as yellow lamellas in the figure on the top right.

MCDP crystals not integrated into the metal surface act as bearing balls, which further reduces friction and abrasion. This is because sliding friction is turned into the much smaller rolling friction. The MCDP crystals are 5 nanometers in diameter, which is the 20.000th part of the diameter of a human hair!