EC Supports Polymer Research in Jülich
News November 16, 2010
Substantially increasing the production efficiency of a very important class of industrial plastics, improving material properties and establishing routes to completely new classes of speciality polymers - these are the aims of a Jülich-led consortium of scientists as part of the EC project "MAO-ROBOTS - methylaluminoxane (MAO) activators in the molecular polyolefin factory". Familiar members of the class of olefins are, for example, polyethylene and polypropylene. The European Commission is providing the consortium with funds of € 3.1 million starting from 1 September. One million euros will be spent directly in Jülich.
The interdisciplinary project is a collaboration between three research institutions and four leading companies from Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Coordinated by the Institute for Neutron Scattering (IFF-5), the participating scientists are investigating the nanostructures of activator/catalyst systems used for the production of polyolefins by a combination of chemistry and physics including scattering methods, NMR spectroscopy and computer simulations.
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Jörg Stellbrink
Tel.: +49 2461 61-6683
E-Mail: j.stellbrink@fz-juelich.de
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