This week, a new book on self healing materials was published. On 27 October 2015, during the IOP symposium ‘Self healing materials – prepare for landing’ in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the book ‘Self healing materials – Pioneering research in the Netherlands’ saw the light. The editors of the book – Sybrand van der Zwaag and Eddy … Continue reading Self healing materials – Pioneering research in the Netherlands
On 27 October the final event of the ‘Innovatiegerichte Onderzoeksprogramma (IOP)’ Self Healing Materials will take place in Utrecht. The ‘IOP’ is a ten-year research programme subsidized by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency in which 5 Dutch universities and no less than 68 companies participated. Full Professor Novel Aerospace Materials Sybrand van der Zwaag is the … Continue reading 27 October – Final event national research programme Self Healing Materials – Prepare for landing
After nine years being involved as member of the board of the Netherlands Society for Materials Science (Bond voor Materialenkennis), Eddy Brinkman handed over the gavel on June 5, 2015. During the council meeting (Bondsraadvergadering), he and Bert van Haastrecht said goodbye to the board. In addition to the remaining board members Amarante Böttger, Erik … Continue reading Eddy Brinkman no longer president of Netherlands Society for Materials Science
NanoNextNL, the Dutch consortium on research into micro and nanotechnology, asked Betase to make a newspaper for the two-day event NanoCity 2014. On this event, which took place on October 27 and 28 in De Fabrique near Utrecht, about 500 ‘NanoCitizens’ visited the exhibiting companies, presentations in plenary and parallel sessions, scientific posters of (mainly) … Continue reading NanoCity Planet 2014
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
Next week Tuesday 27 May: “High-performance products with lightweight materials” in Helmond. Registration at http://t.co/B1XlhyNmYn
— Eddy Brinkman (@eddybrinkman) 20 mei 2014
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
