NordiCoats - New biobased epoxy compounds for high-performance applications
The NordiCoats project is aimed at developing new bio-based epoxy compounds for high-performance applications, with a focus on sustainability and environmental friendliness.
Industrial biotechnology
SINTEF's initiative within Industrial biotechnology contributes to ensure a future sustainable bio economy. In Industrial biotechnology enzymes and microorganisms are used to create products in the fields of fine- and bulk chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and feed, paper, textiles, energy, materials and polymers.
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Expertise
- 3D bioprinting, and additive manufacturing (AM) for health/medicine applications in general
- Biopharmaceuticals, medical technology and nanomedicine
- Downstream processing – Product isolation, purification and characterization
- Environmental Biotechnology and Microbiology
- Food and Feed Microbiology and Biochemistry
- Functional metagenomics and enzyme technology
- High throughput screening
- Industrial Biotechnology - Efficient strains and processes
- Marine Biotechnology and bioprospecting
- Mass spectrometry and separation science in Biotechnology
- Nanomedicine
- Polymer particles and capsules
- Systems and synthetic biology
Projects
AMBIOS – Autonomous Marine Biodiversity Mapping and Bioprospecting Platform
The collaborative project AMBIOS aims to develop the world's first fully autonomous platform for multi-layer mapping of biodiversity in the marine space and validate it on selected use cases in Mid-Norway.
Application of new products with reduced environmental impact in the area of green industry innovation by JSC MADARA Cosmetics
The goal of the project is to expand in the range of natural and certified products produced by MADARA Cosmetics with new and innovative products with reduced environmental impact.
Laboratories
News
Improved production process for Lithuanian bio-fertilizers
SINTEF contributed with research on bioprocess optimization in a project for establishing industrial microbiological fertilizers in Lithuania.
Cultivating salad plants that can be grown on the Moon
NASA has finished its planning and is ready to go. Humans will soon be returning to the Moon – this time in a manned base. But, if this project is to succeed, astronauts must be able to grow their own food. Norwegian researchers are in the process of...
How safe are the new Covid vaccines?
The new vaccines designed to combat the Covid-19 virus have been developed in record time, causing some people to be sceptical of taking them. Should we be worried about side effects? Norwegian SciTech News has been talking to two research scientists...