- [nanoPost] Ultrafine grained (UGF) metals
The potential global economic impact of nanostructured materials and their processing by 2011 is estimated at $340 billion (Hitachi Research Institute).
|
- [nanoPost] Use of nanoparticles to introduce SMART properties to plastic materials and products
One such project is looking to introduce carbon nanotubes into inherently conducting polymers (ICPs) for EMI and ESD applications.
|
- [nanoPost] Nano-hybrids with optimized mechanical, rheological, optical and thermal properties
The group is concerned with the fundamental understanding of the behavior of the composites in order to optimize the final properties of the hybrid materials.
|
- [nanoPost] Encapsulation
Specialize in the production of porous, nanoscopic materials.
|
- [nanoPost] Anti-bacterial PP fibres
A lot of effort is put in reducing the number of different plastic species to be employed by the car industry, in this sense polypropylene and polypropylene fibres are more and more used in car interior as well as the car structure.
|
- [nanoPost] Improved switch and sensor designs, textile switches and sensors, and electronic nos
The company have developed a new material which has direct application in the automotive field in the area of improved switch and sensor designs, textile switches and sensors, and electronic noses.
|
- [nanoPost] Nanostructured metallic coatings with higher mechanical and corrosion resistance pro
Prototype apparatus for cold gas dynamic spray deposition of powder which will produce nanostructured metallic coatings with higher mechanical and corrosion resistance properties than traditional structured coatings.
|
- [nanoPost] Wear resistant coatings
Research interests in measurement and characterisation of surface topography, tribometry, friction and wear prediction, fluid film technology, automotive tribology, space tribology and the tribology of bonded solid lubricants by the addition of new areas of research.
|
- [nanoPost] Titanium based nanomaterials for engine applications
Scratch resistant coatings; Gas sensors (electronic noses).
|
- [nanoPost] Sol-gel based coatings
Have developed (and continue to do so) sol-gel based coatings that can be deposited and cured at a range of temperatures from 400oC down to room temperature.
|
