Automotive & Transportation

S-Bond is providing joining solutions in the automotive and transportation industries, specifically in thermal management, battery interconnections and electrical energy transfer. With the commercial advent of hybrid and electric automobiles, both the cooling of high power, conversion electronics and battery interconnect terminals are areas where S-Bond joining is an effective solution. S-Bond is used in aluminum bonding and can bond aluminum to copper effectively, without flux, to produce a large, completely void-free bond area, that does not entrap flux. These large bond areas are typical of cooling plates used in the cooling panels for the solid state electrical conversion components in hybrid and electric vehicles. Currently, several Formula One race car companies are using S-Bond in this capacity. S-Bond is also being evaluated in joining Al and Cu on battery terminals.