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The European project Nanomaster will reduce the weight of the pieces of plastic

03/05/2012

3 May 2012

Andl Technological Institute of the plastic Aimplas is one of the 13 companies of seven distinct nationalities that participates in the European project of cooperation Nanomaster, inside the subject NMP (i). 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.

The aim of Nanomaster is the reduction of the quantity of plastic in 50%, with the consequent reduction of weight of the final piece, in addition to conferring him thermal sensors and electrical functionalities. This aim is foreseen that it achieve by means of the development of the new generation of nanocomposites reinforced with grafeno that will be able to use in the processes of massive production of plastic pieces.

It 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.

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.

Aimplas Has an important paper in the development of the process of compounding of the grafeno and graphite with thermoplastic matrices; seating the base for the escalado to industrial level of this compound.

Between the partners also fits to stand out the participation of Advanced, Timcal, Promolding and the Danish Technological Institute in the processed of the materials, and Röchling, Philips and Rolls-Royce like final users.

Additional information: http://www.nanomasterproject.eu/ - proyectos@aimplas.es

The investigation that has given place to these results has received financials of the Seventh Program Mark of the European Community (PM7/2007-2013) in virtue of the agreement of subsidy number 285718 (Nanomaster).

The information reflects the vision of the consortium of Nanomaster and does not link to the EU.