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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Cornelis 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

23. June 2021

Combating marine waste and ghost fishing with new materials

Ghost fishing and plastic waste from the fisheries industry is becoming a major environmental problem. Can we address the issue by using degradable plastics? Scientists at a new research centre are aiming to find the answers and develop the systems...

9. June 2021

SINTEF researchers awarded the prestigious RCS Horizon award

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...

14. January 2021

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

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...

Projects

REEPRODUCE - Dismantling and recycling Rare Earth Elements from End-of-life products for the European Green Transition.

Achieving Europe’s climate-neutral objectives will fundamentally depend on our ability to develop clean energy and mobility solutions in the most sustainable way.

LOCOMOTION - Highly durable, low-cost membrane electrode assemblies for maritime fuel cell applications

The LOCOMOTION project will develop new low-cost and durable components for PEM fuel cells to reach ambitious targets set out for maritime applications.

Environmentally friendly composite material product use in production

The overall goal of the project is to provide knowledge transfer to AM Energy in Latvia, who produces wood composite products. The Project will put into production a new product – a two-layer composite patio board.

TailAd - Tailing adhesion

The TailAd project will develop new characterization methods utilizing advanced instrumentation that will provide the capabilities to study adhesion characteristics of paints in much greater detail.

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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