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SINTEF Industry Materials and Nanotechnology

RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

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. 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.

Cornelis Spooren
Research Director
930 59 412

Expertise

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Additive manufacturing (AM) – Materials and material properties

Additive manufacturing (AM) of spare parts and additive repair processes

Additive, subtractive and hybrid production

Advanced materials characterization and modeling

Advanced packaging and interconnects

Aluminium

Applied superconductivity

Battery Materials Characterization

Battery materials development

BioMEMS and Medical Sensors

Biopharmaceuticals, medical technology and nanomedicine

Biorefinery

Cable Technology

Casting and forming

Catalysis

Composite and polymer materials

Concrete

Corrosion and Tribology

Downstream processing – Product isolation, purification and characterization

Electrical insulation systems and electrical insulation materials

Environmental Biotechnology and Microbiology

Failure investigations

Fatigue and fracture

Ferroalloys

Ferrofluid and nanofluid heat transfer

Functional metagenomics and enzyme technology

High temperature materials

High throughput screening

Hydrogen technology and energy storage

Industrial Biotechnology - Efficient strains and processes

Iron and steel

Marine Biotechnology and bioprospecting

Mass spectrometry and separation science in Biotechnology

Materials characterization

Materials for wind energy

Materials integrity

Mechanics and structural engineering

MEMS

Metallurgy

Minerals and raw materials

Nanomedicine

Nanotechnology and functional materials

Optical MEMS

Piezoelectric materials for sensors, actuators and ultrasound transducers

Piezoelectric Microsystems

Plastics in the ocean

Plastics, rubbers and composites

Polymer particles and capsules

Primary metals production

Process modelling

Products and product performance

Radiation sensors

Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology

Safety case

Self-healing materials

Silicon

Silicon radiation sensors

Simulation tools for additive manufacturing (AM)

Solar cells

Status inspection of power lines

Subsea - Offshore Power Supply

Subsea power electronics

Sustainable polymer technolgies

Synthesis and characterization of inorganic powder materials

Synthesis of inorganic materials

Systems and synthetic biology

Thermoelectric materials for sensors, cooling and utilizing waste heat

Tunnel and Underground Technology

Uncertainty

Urban mining

Welding and joining

Laboratories

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Materials testing

We can test and characterise a wide range of different materials in our laboratories. Materials and components are bent, tensioned and compressed, and go through fracture- and fatigue tests.

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 methods and equipment for coating and surface characterization within the SINTEF group.

Tribology laboratory

Tribology is the multidisciplinary science on wear, friction and lubrication of interacting surfaces in relative motion. Research in tribology is often highly dependent on the final application. The mission of the Tribology Lab at SINTEF/NTNU is to adapt our knowledge and equipment to our clients’ needs.
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Projects

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OntoCommons - Ontology Commons Ecosystem Toolkit

09 December 2020

OntoCommons is an H2020 CSA project dedicated to the standardisation of data documentation across all domains related to materials and manufacturing.

In-No-Plastic: Innovative approaches towards prevention, removal and reuse of marine plastic litter

16 October 2020

In-No-Plastic’s goal is to develop and demonstrate nano-, micro, and macro-plastic clean-up technologies in the aquatic ecosystems.

ICEMAN - Anti-Icing Sustainable Solutions by Development and Application of Icephobic Coatings

12 May 2021

Ice formation and accretion present serious, sometimes catastrophic, safety issues in industrial applications where the use of composite components has already become common, e.g. wind turbine blades, aircrafts, UAVs, but also in the case of electric and telecommunication infrastructure as well as other composite and metal constructions exposed to supercooled water droplets, both on the ground and in the air. The IceMan project focuses on applications for UAVs but it has a great potential for transferring the foreseen results to wind turbine blades and other applications.
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News

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SINTEF researchers awarded the prestigious RCS Horizon award

09 June 2021

Chemists all over the world can now grow virtual crystals with the new software CrystalGrower. SINTEF's Duncan Akporiaye and Bjørnar Arstad are among the researchers that developed the software and were awarded this year's Horizon award for their achievement. The award is given by The Royal Chemistry Society (RCS).

What does a rock climbing belay device have in common with a subsea cable installation vessel?

14 January 2021

The answer is that both can cause torsion, meaning the climbing rope or cable will start to twist. Up until now, no-one could explain why this happened. However, two enthusiastic researchers, who happen to be rock climbers, made it their business to solve the mystery.

Searching for the secret to more efficient solar cells

15 July 2020

The search for the perfect solar cell is not yet over. Norwegian researchers are now adopting a new approach to the cells’ raw material, crystalline silicon, with the aim of making the electricity-generating cells even more efficient.
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