2016_K - Fraunhofer IGB

Düsseldorf / October 19, 2016 - October 26, 2016

K 2016 | Fair

The World’s No. 1 Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber

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Hall 7.0, Booth SC01

Applied research is a crucial factor in business success in the plastic and rubber industry, combining future-driven research knowledge with market-driven needs and changes in the social environment. The specialized Fraunhofer Institutes deliver applied research excellence, market knowledge and practical, innovative ideas. We are helping to shape the future market for the plastic and rubber industry.

Fraunhofer IGB will show technologies and processes relating to plasma functionalization of polymers and catalytic processes for the production of biobased polymers.

We look forward to your visit at the joint Fraunhofer Booth in Hall 7.0, booth SC01.

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For your success – our research competences

Plasma-functionalized and coated materials

To provide surfaces with new properties, Fraunhofer IGB especially applies plasma treatment technology. This way, we are able to etch surfaces, e.g. to clean them, or to graft chemical functionalities onto the surface, i.e. to alter wetting characteristics, or to polymerize thin films onto the surface, providing functions such as scratch-resistance, dirt-repellency, or corrosion protection. Further applications include inorganic oxygen or water vapor barrier layers for packaging materials that can be combined with another layer so that liquid and paste-like contents drain off completely from their containers. A further research topic is the plasma crosslinking of polymers as a methopd to obtain carbon fiber from biological resources. We offer the development of a complete process – from layer and process development to scale-up and production of sample coatings.

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Anti-icing coatings

The function of technical installations such as rotor blades of wind turbines, aircraft wings, solar panels, or overhead lines but also of outdoor and sports equipment, can be affected severely by ice adhesion. With plasma coatings, embossed or printed structures developed at Fraunhofer IGB surfaces and textiles can be effectively protected against icing. Water-repellent micro- and nanostructured layers for example reduce ice formation by more than 90 percent. Surfaces can either be coated directly in the plasma chamber or pasted with a self-adhesive anti-icing foil from shock and impact resistant polyurethane (PU).

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Building blocks for biobased polymers

Chemicals and polymers from plant biomass are not only »green« – they also may have promising new properties. BioCat, the Straubing branch of Fraunhofer IGB, has developed processes for the transformation of terpenes, residual material of cellulose production from wood, to biosurfactants, biobased epoxides or monomers for especially impact-resistant, cold-stable polyamides. These high-performance polyamides from terpene lactams such as camphor and careen lactam as building blocks are significantly more amorphous – and due to their transparency enable new applications, e.g. for ski goggles or visors.

Fraunhofer POLO® sailing boat

Often the neat little things, the nanometer thick surface and interface layers are crucial for modern technology to work. Some examples are built in the sailing boat Josephina. They demonstrate the competencies of the institutes which joined forces in the Fraunhofer Alliance Polymer Surfaces POLO^®.

Barrier films for organic solar cells and OLEDs
film sails
surface optimized fibres in carbon fibre reinforced resins and molds without release agent
plastic rigs
heating and thermochromic coatings
tribological coatings
anti-ice coatings
anti-fouling coatings
scratch resistant coatings.

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