SIM User Forum 2013

The annual SIM User Forum was organized 21st October, location Stuurboord in Antwerp. The goal of the event was to bring together the materials’ community in Flanders from an industrial as well as an academic perspective, to facilitate discussions and stimulate further crosslinking of the network.

This was the agenda of the day. You can click on the title of the presentation to download it.

• 8:30 – 9:15      registration
• 9:15 – 11:00    Welcome & introduction to the SIM programs (plenary session)
  • 9:15 – 9:30           “Strategic Initiative Materials: introduction” – Guido Verhoeven (SIM)
  • 9:30 – 11:00        vertical SIM programs industrial testimonies: examples of applying the developed knowledge
    • 9:30 – 9:45           Self-Healing Materials (SHE) – Dirk Bontinck (Allnex)
    • 9:45 – 10:00        Additive Manufacturing (STREAM) – Maarten Valckenaers (Materialise)
    • 10:00 – 10:15      Steel/CNT hybrid materials (Nanoforce)  - Peter Persoone (Bekaert)
    • 10:15 – 10:30      Modeling of lightweight materials (M3) – Peter Reynaert (Sabca) & Guy De Bruyne (Lazer Sport)
    • 10:30 – 10:45      Printing of photovoltaics (SOPPOM) – Fabrice Stassin (Umicore)
    • 10:45 – 11:00      Material durability for off-shore (Maduros) – Joachim Antonissen (ArcelorMittal)
• 11:15 – 12:30 Project results (parallel sessions)
  • Session 1: SHE / STREAM
    • 11:15-11:30 Prof. Danny Van Hemelrijck (VUB) – “self-healing concrete: recent results”
    • 11:30-11:45 Prof. Filip Du Prez (UGent) - “Self-Healing Thermosets and Composites: Status and Future Perspectives for the Industry”
    • 11:45-12:00 Prof. Herman Terryn (VUB) – “Challenges for self-healing coatings on metals”
      12:00-12:15 Maxime Durka (Devan Chemicals) – “Encapsulation technology for self-healing materials”
      12:15-12:30 Leander Verbeel – “the search for laser sinterable polymers: identification of key material parameters”
  • Session 2: Nanoforce / H-INT-S
    • 11:15-11:30 Dr. Larissa Gorbatikh (KU Leuven)– “Nano-engineered polymer/steel hybrids”
    • 11:30-11:45 Prof. Wim Van Paepegem (UGent) – “Multiscale modeling of nano-engineered hybrids”
    • 11:45-12:00 Ellen Bertels (KULeuven), Amit K. Ghosh (VUB) - "Optimizing interfacial strength between steel and polymer through plasma and wet chemical treatments"
      12:00-12:15 Stefan Straesser (LMS) – “Overview of  goals and objectives of ModelSteelComp project”
    • 12:15-12:30 Prof. Nick Schryvers (UAntwerpen) – “Studying the interfaces in polymer based composites”
  • Session 3: TRAP / SOPPOM
    • 11:15-11:30 Prof. Christophe Detavernier: “introduction to TRAP (Tools for Rational Processing of nano-particles)”
    • 11:30-11:45 Prof. Zeger Hens – “Wet-processed CIGS based absorber layers for photovoltaic applications”
      11:45-12:00 Prof. Marlies Van Bael – “Solution deposition of Transparent Conductive Oxides”
    • 12:00-12:15 Dr. Marc Meuris – “Processing of solar cells from printed CIGS precursors”
    • 12:15-12:30 Dr. Guido Huyberechts – “Automated precision synthesis of nanocrystals"
• 12:30 – 14:00 lunch and poster session:researchers from all running programs show their results on scientific posters and a poster award is organized: a mixed industrial/academic jury nominated up front 5 posters on which the public of the User Forum could vote to select the winner. The author of the winning poster was Xander Hillewaere from the Polymer Chemistry Research group @ UGent.
• 14:00 – 16:00 Cross-over debate: opportunities for the Flemish Materials community
• 16:00 – 16:15 Poster Award: announcement of the winning poster
• 16:15 – 17:00 Networking Reception

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