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Materials properties and utilization

Materials properties and utilization

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SINTEF unites world-leading expertise in understanding of material properties, to the requirements of the end-products characteristics.

Contact person

Cornelis Spooren
Research Director
930 59 412

Expertise

Advanced materials characterization and modeling

Our ability to develop new or improved materials and processes depends largely on the availability of good experimental and numerical infrastructure. Modern laboratories and numerical models are necessary to describe and understand the relationship between composition and structure of materials and material properties and how this relationship is affected by processing parameters. The tools are also often used to understand why materials degrade or fail after being used.
Spyridon Diplas
Research Manager
982 30 427

Materials integrity

The mechanical properties of materials are affected in the presence of hydrogen and may cause degradation in for of so-called hydrogen embrittlement. In areas like hydrogen storage and transport, it is therefore important to contain the harmful influence of atomic hydrogen entering the materials. For the maritime Norwegian industry, this is not a new phenomenon, as hydrogen is produced when protecting metals from corrosion by cathodic protection. Through research and development funded by industry and the Research Council of Norway, the industry has learned to handle and contain these challenges, and the acquired knowledge is implemented in rules and guidelines for design and operation. However, the additional source of atomic hydrogen from pressurized H2 gas, requires further research and competence building.
Vigdis Olden
Senior Research Scientist
+47 982 30 434

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 supercomputer infrastructure in SIGMA2, as well as fundamental materials competence. This combined approach allows for determination of structure, chemistry and materials response from the atomic to millimeter scale.

Battery Research Capabilities at SINTEF Industry

SINTEF shares its battery lab facilities with NTNU, represented by Prof. Ann Mari Svensson.

Engineering Geology Laboratory

Analyses of geological materials provide knowledge of conditions that affect the time, cost and stability of construction in rock and soil.
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Prosjekter

Efficient CO2 capture from waste-derived solid fuels using CLC technology - CLC-SRF

07 December 2020

CO2 emissions from conversion of waste-derived fuels are estimated to about 18 million tonnes per year (ERFO - European Recovered Fuel Organisation, 2015). The report further estimates the market to increase, to CO2 emissions equivalent to more than 60 million tonnes per year. It is evident that capture of this CO2 should be considered.

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.

UPTURN

26 January 2021

The overall goal of the UPTURN project is the development of a first-of-its-kind, multiparametric instrumentation equipment integrating microfluidic electrochemical cells and advanced microelectrodes materials.
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