Recent news
Excellence of DPI research in Ziegler-Natta catalysis recognised in Japan
April 17th, 2012
PP researcher: best presentation DPD
April 2nd, 2012
Researcher of the technology area Performance Polymers Morteza Sadatshirazi won the prize for best presentation. He received this prize for his presentation 'Viscoelastic properties of short aramid fibres reinforced rubbers' during the Dutch Polymer Days.
First issue DPI newsletter
March 22nd, 2012
From the start of this year DPI will send out a digital newsletter once per two months. The newsletter contains DPI related news and polymer related news. On Thursday 22 March we have send out the first edition to our DPI community and several other recipients. Click here for the webversion of the DPI newsletter.
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.
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.
