In search of plastics lighter
4 May 2012
Until 13 companies and entities, between which finds the technological centre
The project, that began the past month of December, has a financials of 4,2 million euros under the 7º Program Marco, and has a planned length of four years. To attain his aim of reduction of weight in the final piece the entities participants pretend to develop a new generation of nanocomposites reinforced with grafeno that will be able to use in the processes of massive production of plastic pieces.
Has showed that to scale laboratory a low load of grafeno is able to improve of significant way the mechanical and physical properties of the polymers. However, the production to industrial level only has developed in United States, where there is available a series of masterbatches and compounds thermoplastic based in grafeno.
Europe will mark the difference
The concept of Nanomaster goes through the development of the basic knowledge of the processes that need for the escalado of the production masterbatches and compounds thermoplastic of grafeno and graphite expanded that it allow his industrial commercialisation in Europe. The idea is to incorporate these intermediate products in the processes of aditivación conventional current.
The good development of these materials and processes will have an effect in the quantity of necessary polymer to manufacture the plastic pieces fulfilling with the same requirements that initially demanded them . This advance will open the door to a big rank of applications, allowing a positioning of the European companies in the rest of the world.
The union and the strength
Aimplas, that has an important paper in the development of the process of compounding of the grafeno and graphite with thermoplastic matrices, collaborates in the project with companies and entities as it Advanced, Timcal, Promolding and the Danish Technological Institute in the processed of the materials, and Röchling, Philips and Rolls-Royce like final users.
