An innovative, plasmonic paint system uses nanoparticles to create structural colours without the need for multiple pigments. This system, which needs less product and is more colour stable, is also ...
Coated paper-based packaging has an important role to play in the transition to a circular economy. The extent to which these materials can be recycled is a key factor in further increasing their ...
PROMOSURF, the French-speaking part of the Belgian association for surface treatment of materials (VOM) developed in 2015 a website dedicated to alternatives to chromating. In 2022, the site was ...
The new project BeFORE - Barrier for recycling - in which Sirris is involved, focuses on recyclable material innovations for ’contact sensitive’ plastic and paper packaging with high quality barrier ...
The friction behaviour of surfaces can be tuned by laser structuring. Recently, an industrial application of controlling friction by surface texture is presented for large marine ship engines. In the ...
Many components suffer a loss of performance due to ice formation. Various technologies are available to 'armour' surfaces against ice or frost formation. In this area, too, micro- and nanostructures ...
How can an anti-icing coating help combat icing problems? How can it be implemented and how can its effect be simulated in a lab? These are the questions behind the launch of the COOCK project Fighting Icing and the NewSkin programme.
To prevent prostheses from becoming contaminated with bacteria, their surface can be coated with a bacteria-killing microstructure. Moreover, this coarsening improves the adhesion of the bone to the ...
Last September, the European Triple-A-COAT project was kicked-off by the project partners having a 2-day meeting in Leuven. The project aims to develop a bio-based nanocellulose coating platform with ...
Biomimetics or 'biomimicry' imitates principles found in nature to solve practical problems, such as modifying a surface to add certain properties to it. Thus, surfaces can be made water-repellent ...
When two surfaces move across each other, friction occurs. The strength and wear are influenced, among other things, by the roughness of these surfaces. Because of the wide variety of friction ...
