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Call: Polymer Value Chain Projects 2012
January 24th, 2012
Polymer Value Chain Projects are an initiative launched by DPI and DPI Value Centre as part of the Polymer Innovation Programme (PIP) to promote innovation in the value chain. Projects must be collaborative efforts between various companies in the chain, and may involve the transfer of valuable knowledge for the benefit of the results of the project. DPI Value Centre will actively assist the participating companies in establishing the consortium. To broaden the scope of a project and to facilitate its implementation, subsidies are available from the PIP scheme for companies taking part in these chain projects.
DPI scores a high Citation-Impact factor
January 6th, 2012
The Dutch Polymer Institute scored a Citation-Impact factor of 2.04 for its scientific publications. The latest report of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science proves this result in Science and Technology Indicators 2011. The score of DPI is, again, more than twice as high as the global average.
V. Monteil laureate of Bronze CNRS Medal
January 6th, 2012
Vincent Monteil, CNRS researcher in the Chemistry, Catalysis, Polymers and Processes laboratory (C2P2) at CPE Lyon, is a 2011 laureate of the Bronze Medal of the CNRS. His research activities focus on (catalytic) polymerization of olefins and especially their copolymerization with polar vinyl monomers using hybrid radical/catalytic mechanisms.
DPI and DPI Value Centre wish you...
January 2nd, 2012
At the start of 2012 we wish you a happy, healthy and innovative 2012. Click here to view our new year's message.
Green plastic powered by FOM, Michelin, SKF and DPI
November 28th, 2011
The FOM Foundation is forming a partnership with Michelin, SKF and Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) to gain a better fundamental understanding of how polymers are reinforced by adding fillers. Today the partners signed the contract for this new FOM Industrial Partnership Programme that has a budget of 1.6 million euros. Nearly all ‘plastic' objects around us consist of polymers that have been reinforced with fillers to improve their physical properties. The researchers have set their sights high: they want to be the first to make a quantitative connection between the macroscale properties and performances of these reinforced materials and their structure at the molecular level. The partners will jointly deploy a wide range of advanced techniques to study the network structures at the mesoscale.
DPI Annual Meeting
November 28th, 2011
On 15 and 16 November DPI organised its Annual Meeting. This year the meeting was organised in Zeist, the Netherlands and was hosted by Teijin Aramid and AkzoNobel. 180 participants of DPI joint this event.
DPI on TV
November 11th, 2011
R. van den Hof retires from DPI
October 10th, 2011
G. Aresta granted AVS award
September 16th, 2011
P. Nossin chairman task force New Materials
July 20th, 2011
As of June 21 Programme Area Coordinator Peter Nossin has been appointed chairman of the task force New Materials of SusChem Nederland. His first tasks will be to expand the task force with new members and to make an inventory of the current national and European programmes in the area of New Materials. The New Materials task force will set up a plan to match the current programmes with the Polymer Innovation Programme and the programme of the Dutch chemical sector.
Two new industrial partners
July 18th, 2011
As from this summer there are two new industrial partners within the Dutch Polymer Institute. The Belgian multinational Bekaert became participant in the technology area Performance Polymers and the German multinational Altana is from now on partner within the area of Coatings Technology.
Prof. Dr. Cor E. Koning wins DPI Invention Award
July 13th, 2011
During the European Polymer Congress 2011 in Granada, Spain, on 29 June last, the Dutch Polymer Institute DPI presented the DPI Invention Award to Prof. Dr. Cor E. Koning. Cor Koning currently works at the Eindhoven University of Technology and received this award for his important contribution to the innovative capabilities of DPI.
Gilles Holst Medaille granted to prof.dr. D. Broer
June 14th, 2011
DPI Annual Report 2010 - ‘Today's science, tomorrow's business'
June 10th, 2011
DPI is at a crucial juncture in its development. The changing environment calls for a change in our strategy. Our ambition is to evolve into a global Centre of Excellence in polymers and broaden our financial base. To achieve this, we will expand our partnership base by looking for partners across the entire polymer value chain and internationalising our activities, and we will continue our commitment to excellence.
ICF Names Eindhoven Region of the Netherlands as its Intelligent Community of the Year 2011
June 6th, 2011
Researchers find replacement for rare material indium tin oxide
April 13th, 2011
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO), an important material used in displays for all kinds of everyday products such as TVs, telephones and laptops, as well as in solar cells. Unfortunately indium is a rare metal, and the available supplies are expected to be virtually exhausted within as little as ten years. The replacement material is a transparent, conducting film produced in water, and based on electrically conducting carbon nanotubes and plastic nanoparticles. It is made of commonly available materials, and on top of that is also environment-friendly. The results, which also provide new insights into conduction in complex composite materials, were published online yesterday 10 April by the scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology.
DPI annual meeting 2011
March 30th, 2011
This year's annual meeting, hosted by Teijin and Akzo Nobel, will be held on 15 and 16 November 2011. Please block these dates in your calender. More information will follow as soon as possible.
ECS 2011 - European Coatings Journal
March 24th, 2011
DPI is one of the sponsors at the European Coatings Show and Conference from 29-31 March in Nurenberg, Germany. In advance of the event a special journal was published, European Coatings Journal, issue 3/2011. An interview with Dr. Harold Gankema and prof. Claus Eisenbach is part of the special edition. Click here to read the article.
