The 2014 edition of Meeting Materials will take place on May 27 at the Automotive Campus in Helmond. Over 50 people are expected to come together in this informative and informal networking event, in order to discuss high-performance products with lightweight materials from several points of view. Oral presentations on academic research subjects will alternate … Continue reading Meeting Materials 2014 – High-performance products with lightweight materials→
On May 8, 2014, Sido Sinnema handed over the chairman’s hammer to Eddy Brinkman, new president of the Netherlands Ceramic Society (Nederlandse Keramische Vereniging, NKV). Eddy descends from two generations of bricklayers, and has continued this tradition as advanced ceramics at University of Twente gained his interest. As of that moment, he has become member … Continue reading Eddy Brinkman new president Netherlands Ceramic Society→
Eddy Brinkman of Betase is closely involved in Materials 2014 trade fair and congress (www.materialenbeurs.nl), that will take place on April 16 and 17 in Congress Center Koningshof in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. As president of the Netherlands Society for Materials Science (Bond voor Materialenkennis, BvM, www.materialenkennis.nl) he was asked to be a member of the … Continue reading BvM and NKV are present at Materials 2014 trade fair and congress→
They appeal to the imagination: materials which are able to heal themselves. Despite the fact that there have already been many examples in nature: wounds that apparently autonomously stop bleeding, or broken bones that heal after some time. The ‘only’ thing that’s necessary is to transfer these tricks from nature to man-made materials. In 2013, … Continue reading Self healing materials: concept and applications→
Piezoelectric materials – that can convert mechanical energy into electric energy and vice versa – are among the ‘invisible’ materials that are widespread around us. Consumer products, automotive electronics, medical technology, and industrial systems are but a few areas where piezoelectric components are indispensable. Besides models to describe and understand the behaviour of piezoelectric materials … Continue reading Piezoelectric materials and applications→
Functional materials can do a ‘trick’. For example conducting electricity, or emitting light when a voltage difference is applied over the material, or generating a voltage when the material is compressed. The electrolyte in a fuel cell through which ions are being transported is clearly a functional material, just as the (doped) silicon semi-conducting material … Continue reading Self healing functional materials→
Picture this … your mobile phone is lying on your desk, close to the speaker of your desktop computer system. A few seconds before you receive a call or SMS message on your mobile phone, the speaker makes a buzzing noise. Is this clairvoyance of the speaker? No way. Here, the wire to the speaker … Continue reading Conductive polymer composites for electromagnetic shielding→
What is the common denominator in inkjet printers, parking sensors for cars, gas lighters and ultrasound imaging for babies? The answer: all these applications make use of piezoelectric materials. This material has something special: it has the capability to change shape – for example become shorter or wider – by applying an electric voltage over … Continue reading The hidden use of piezo technology in applications all around us→
Between 1 October 2009 and 30 September 2011, Betase participated in the European knowledge transfer project iPolyCond, together with other European partners and partly funded by the European Commission. The booklet iPolyCond conductive polymers as well as the book An introduction to conductive polymer composites are results of the project, aiming at developing training materials … Continue reading iPolyCond – European knowledge transfer project→
