Biopolymers
Functional Polymer Systems
Synthesis and Polymer Technology
Water-born Polymer Systems
Pilot Plant Center Schkopau
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Contact Prof. Dr. habil. Hans-Peter Fink Phone +49 331 568-1815 Fax +49 331 568-3815 e-mail fink@iap.fraunhofer.de |
Cellulose products
- Biodegradable superabsorbers for hygiene articles and cosmetics
- Blood-compatible additives, coagulants and coatings for medicine
- Biocompatible symplex capsules for biotechnology and pharmacy
- Symplex membranes for destillation-free solvent separation in the chemical and food industries
- Fibrids and filter aids
- Flocculants for the paper industry, water purification and waste water treatment, and sludge dewatering and thickening
- Viscosity regulators and dispersion stabilizers for the cosmetics, food, dye, construction and chemical industries
- Adhesives for fiberboards
- Selective carrier systems and separating materials, e.g. for blood purification in pharmacy and medicine
Process development
- New types synthesis, e.g. soluble cellulose carbamates for deformation
- Optimization of syntheses
- Upscaling to 50 l scale for heterophase reactions
- Investigating new ways of synthesis
Starch products
- Flocculants for wastewater treatment and sludge dewatering
- Papermaking aids, e.g. pulp and surface sizing, as coating agents and for paper laminations
- Components for materials and composites
- Sizing materials for textiles and improvement of textile printability
- Environment-friendly adhesives for corrugated board, paper bags, boxes and sacks
- Binders for plasterboards and mineral fiber boards
- Building material additives for con-crete, plasters/renderings and boards
- Starch derivatives in cosmetics, detergents and cleaning agents
- Aids for pelletizing, agglomeration and briquetting
- Components in dispersion adhesives
- Functional food additives: thickening agents, binders and gelling agents
- Pharmaceutical industry: tableting aid, microencapsulation
- Starch derivatives for film production
Process development
- Enzymatic modification:Development of products with functional properties
- Chemical derivatization:Relationships between raw starch materials, process conditions and end product properties
- Molecular and rheological properties of starch products
- Extrusion of starch
Process engineering and know-how in material manufactrure
Spinning and extrusion processes in viscose technology
- Filaments and staple fibers
- Hollow fiber membranes for blood purification
- Films and tubes
- Suitability test for cellulose pulps
Spinning and extrusion processes in carbamate technology
- Filament yarns and staple fibers
Spinning and extrusion from NMMO solutions (Lyocell process)
- Blown films and flexible tubes
- Fibers produced by spinning
Extrusion by precipitation in the shearing field
- Separating and carrier materials
- Adsorbents
- Fibrids
Thermoplastic extrusion and composite materials
- Compounding of composite materials
- Thermoplastics reinforced with natural and regenerated cellulose fibers
- Biocomposites
Cellulose reinforcing fibers
- Natural fibers
- Mercerization of natural fibers
- Regenerated cellulose fibers
Material characterization and testing
- Characterization and evaluation of polymers from renewable resources
- Application-oriented testing
- Characterization of polymer solutions
- Material testing of fibers, films and molded parts in the accredited testing laboratory
- Chemico-physical characterization of polymers
- Determination of the complete carbon emission after VDA 277
- Characterization of the morphology and the supramolecular structure of polymers
- Investigation and validation of the relationships between production conditions, mechanical properties and structure
- Determining the mass transport and separation properties of membranes and carrier materials
- Profound chemical analysis of organic and anorganic substances und substance