Focus Area: Coating and Corrosion Prevention
Contact
Pierre Morel
pierre.morel@lunalabs.us
434-220-0152

Luna Labs USA solves complex technical challenges and translates innovation into real-world impact. The company works with government agencies, defense organizations, and commercial customers to develop high-performance products at the intersection of materials science, systems engineering, and biotechnology.
Luna Labs combines deep technical expertise, state-of-the-art equipment, and an interdisciplinary approach to define problems clearly, test new approaches, and iterate quickly toward practical solutions. With extensive experience supporting government-driven research and development as well as serving non-government entities, the company moves technologies from early-stage concepts to field-ready solutions.
Guided by a vision to advance healthcare, safeguard the environment, and protect critical infrastructure and personnel, Luna Labs focuses on advanced materials and surface protection, corrosion monitoring and asset integrity, biomedical technologies, and human performance systems. The company brings the agility of a small business and the capabilities of a larger organization to engineer, test, and deploy solutions that perform in customers’ most demanding environments.
Acuity Corrosion Monitoring
Problem Statement:
- Operational and safety risks: Corrosion threatens the readiness and safety of aircraft, vessels, infrastructure, and equipment.
- Variable corrosion in moving assets: Ships and aircraft experience corrosion accumulation based on usage, making consistent monitoring essential.
- Need for quantifiable data: Condition-based maintenance requires reliable, measurable corrosion data for both bare and coated alloys.
- Ineffective traditional methods: Current corrosion monitoring is labor-intensive, inconsistent, and often misses early signs of deterioration.
- Challenges with coated surfaces: Quantifying corrosion under coatings is difficult and typically relies on destructive testing methods.

Technology Solution Statement:
- Continuous corrosion monitoring: Acuity provides real-time corrosion measurements to inform health monitoring and condition-based maintenance systems, enabling timely interventions and reducing asset downtime.
- Asset-specific and fleet-level insights: Onboard monitoring allows for targeted maintenance at the asset level and prioritization across the fleet, improving overall maintenance efficiency.
- Comprehensive corrosion data: Measures corrosion rates continuously for both bare alloys and coated surfaces.
- Labor-free monitoring: Delivers uninterrupted data collection without manual labor.
- Coatable sensors: Sensors can be coated to monitor corrosion beneath protective layers, ensuring accurate assessments even under coatings.
Benefits Statement:
Maintenance
- Data-driven maintenance: Condition-based maintenance powered by continuous corrosion monitoring data.
- Early detection and cost savings: Continuous monitoring enables early issue detection, reducing maintenance costs.
- Targeted asset care: Onboard monitoring allows for asset-specific maintenance, prioritizing assets most in need.
- Environmental and material insights: Tracks environmental corrosivity and alloy-specific corrosion rates for informed decision-making.
Materials Selection
- Faster corrosion assessment: Differentiates corrosion behavior of alloys or coatings 10x faster than traditional exposure methods.
- Real-time performance data: Corrosion performance is assessed continuously, eliminating the need for interval-based sample pulls.
- Comprehensive environmental analysis: Continuous measurement of environmental conditions (outdoor or in environmental chambers) to gauge corrosion severity.




