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CAN - Newsletter
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The business segment Functional coatings/Thin film technology encompasses the modification of surfaces on the nanometer scale. The particles used for such coatings include: metal and metal alloys, semiconductors as well as oxides.
Via a post-synthetic method even the surface of single nanoparticles can be changed and adapted for different substrate materials. By changing solubility – either hydrophilic or hydrophobic ligands on the particles‘ surface – the coating procedures and formation of films are controlled.
Typical film processing techniques available within CAN are: Dip-coating, spin-coating and spray-coating as well as the Langmuir-Blodgett technique. In the field of medical engineering and technology research is conducted in the field of prosthetics where coatings for better adhesion and integration of new cell tissue on metallic prostheses are investigated.
Being able to coat surfaces with nanometer thick layers which introduce a new functionality to a product is but only one important step. The other one is making sure the coating is durable. CAN is able to qualify thin film properties via nanoindentation. This method gives information concerning abrasion resistivity, delamination and hardness of the applied film.
In cooperation with the business segment Specialty Polymers, nanocomposites are developed with focus on the improvements of mechanical and thermodynamical properties.
Nanoparticles as additives find their large application in the field of polymer materials for the improvement of properties. The research area in this field within CAN is based on melt blending technologies for compounding nanoparticles into polymer matrices, particularly for improvement of heat conductivity, oxygen permeation properties as well as for surface modification.
CAN knowledge in the field of nanoparticle and polymer synthesis opens up large opportunities for developing special nanoparticle – polymer based systems. Such systems are under intensive development for polymer coating applications.
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