Summary Information about NMP Projects funded in first FP7 Call

Projects selected in the 1st call of NMP/Topic 3.5 Processes and equipment for high quality industrial production of 3-D nanosurfaces

Title: N2P

Objectives: Atmospheric plasma based equipment for in line production of 3D functionalised surfaces exploring new materials.

Strategy/Technology: Elimination of vacuum for in the plasma process can strongly impact their industrialisation and create a new market for low cost and flexible surface functionalisation. Approach includes etching for nanostructures, and CVD coatings.

Applications/Sector: Demonstrators focus on structures for solar cell surfaces, biocidal surface structures and direct growth of aligned carbon nanotubes on electrode surfaces. End-user industries include photovoltaics, aeronautics, automotive, steel.

Title: NaPaNIL

Objectives: Develops nanoimprinting lithography for 3D nanosurfaces on large area surfaces for production of any kind of topographically 3-dimensional nanostructured surfaces in the area of optical surfaces.

Strategy/Technology: Investigating thermal nanoimprint (hot embossing) and UV imprint technologies.

Applications/Sector: Key application are 1) a diffuser to provide warm light with homogeneous intensity using only a few LEDs as a source for housing, theatres and sunlight manipulation, 2) an emissive headup display for automotive applications or other type of displays, and 3) diffractive optical element for LED illumination needs, e.g., in mobile devices, street lamps and general illumination.

Projects selected at the 1st call of NMP/Topic 3.5-2 Production technologies and equipment for micro-manufacturing

Title: MICROFLEX

Objectives: Fabrication of flexible materials in the form of high added value smart fabrics/textiles which are able to sense stimuli and react or adapt in a predetermined way.

Strategy/Technology: Add advanced functions to textiles incorporating MEMS structure on flexible textile/fabrics using micro-fabrication (i.e. thick film printing/sacrificial etching) to produce, using custom printing processes, active functions in a cost efficient way.

Applications/Sector: Textiles and Clothing.

Title: COTECH

Objectives: The development of new approaches of micro manufacturing based on advanced technology convergence processes in order to propose hybrid solutions for high added value cost effective manufacturing.

Strategy/Technology: The strategy is to generate new technology convergence processes through the integration of technologies related to micro-manufacturing such as compression injection moulding, embossing, laser structuring, and wet coating.

Applications/Sector: Transport, bio-medical and energy.

Title: INTEG-MICRO's

Objectives: The development of a new high precision manufacturing technologies to respond cost efficiently and eco-friendly to the mass customisation paradigm within the production of complex shape micro parts, embedded systems and miniaturized products at micro/meso-scale level.

Strategy/Technology: The strategy is to develop hybrid reconfigurable multitasking machines and combined processes using the Integration of different ultra high precision techniques for the generation of 3D complex shape micro-components showing a complex shape and made from different kinds of materials.

Applications/Sector: Medical and bio-medical, automotive, environmental monitoring, aeronautic and aerospace.

Title: FLEXPAET

Objectives: The development of a highly flexible process for the patterning of large area complex micro structure, allowing the low cost, high volume production of large area micro structured surfaces for the use in diffractive optics (DO).

Strategy/Technology: The strategy is to develop flexible patterning of complex micro structures using adaptive embossing and micro machining technologies.

Applications/Sector: Optics

Title: MULTILAYER

Objectives: Development of low cost mass production technologies for manufacturing complex non silicon multifunctional 3D-micro parts.

Strategy/Technology: The “rolled multi material layered 3D shaping technology” will be used together with concepts of tape casting and advanced printing techniques. This would open up a new process for the large-scale production of complex non-silicon micro products.

Applications/Sector: White goods, optics, construction, chemical and medical.