Materials and Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology and advanced materials will have a significant impact on solving the grand challenges of our global society and create new business opportunities for existing and new industries.

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Rudie Spooren

Research Director

SINTEF has the capability to assist your organization in developing new or improved products with strong competence within structural and functional materials and multi material combinations. Through combination with other relevant competencies in SINTEF we contribute to the development of sustainable value chains in context of a circular economy.

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Laboratories

Advanced materials characterisation - Laboratory

The advanced materials characterization laboratory in Oslo develops techniques and makes use of advanced experimental facilities within the national infrastructure centers NORTEM, NICE, and NORFAB. It also employs modeling frameworks utilizing the...

Chemistry Laboratory

The Chemistry Laboratory provides services within inorganic and organic analysis of building products and building materials.

Coating Laboratory

We offer laboratory and field testing services in addition to contract research and development. Our laboratories are equipped with modern instruments for coating testing and characterization. Additionally, we have access to a wide range of advanced...

Electrotechnical laboratories

SINTEF Energy Research operates laboratories for high voltage, high power and climatic testing. Customers are manufacturers, suppliers and users of electric power equipment.

News

22. February 2024

Sustainable anchor lines for floating offshore wind

If Europe is to meet its climate targets, offshore wind has to play a larger role in the energy mix. One thing is to produce all these wind turbines, another is how to attach or moor them. There is currently insufficient production capacity for...

Viewpoints

11. January 2024

New knowledge will offer cheaper and greener rail services

New lubricants, combined with new knowledge about how they should be applied to train wheels and rails, have the potential to reduce rail sector costs in Norway by hundreds of millions of kroner during the next decade.

27. September 2023

Marine plastic waste can spread antimicrobial resistance

Bacteria discharged to the oceans in sewage and wastewater thrive on the biofilms that form on plastic waste. This may be leading to the somewhat unanticipated problem of antimicrobial resistance.

Projects

RAMP-OPP - Robust additive manufacturing of polymer composites for optimal part production

Start:: 2024
End:: 2027

The project targets R&D challenges to the industrialisation of additive manufacturing (AM) technology for composite parts containing either short or continuous fibre-reinforced thermoplastics.

HICCUPS – Highly-Innovative technology demonstration for bio-based CO2 Capture and Utilization for production of bulk Plastic applicationS

HICCUPS – Highly-Innovative technology demonstration for bio-based CO₂ Capture and Utilization for production of bulk Plastic applicationS

Start:: 2023
End:: 2027

The HICCUPS project proposes a resource efficient solution to convert biogenic CO₂ emissions from wastewater treatment plants into bio-based polymers for the packaging industry.

PurPest - Plant pest prevention through technology-guided monitoring and site-specific control

Start:: 2023
End:: 2026

The main objective of PurPest is to control serious plant pests during import and to manage them in the field by developing a unique concept enabling pest detection in a timely and non-invasive manner. One goal is to increase the inspection of plants...

Sure2Coat - Sustainable surface treatments of complex shape components for transsectorial industrial innovation

Start:: 2023
End:: 2025

The Sure2Coat project will demonstrate the benefit of surface treatments with respect to corrosion protection and to improved heat transfer properties.

Software

Advanced analysis of topographic data

Programs developed by SINTEF for data acquisition and analysis of topographic data from our WYKO NT-2000 White Light Interferometer (WLI).

ALUSHEET, HYDSIM AND TEARSIM

Together with the process industry SINTEF has developed software for process optimisation.

FEM post-processor for fatigue analysis

P-FAT is a software that post-processes results from FEM analyses in order to compute fatigue damage in structures. The software is designed to support engineering workflows, and provides easy access to some advanced fatigue models.

LINKpipe – a new tool for integrity assessment

LINKpipe is a non-linear, special-purpose finite element tool for performing fatigue and fracture mechanics calculations in pipelines and piping structures.

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