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2011
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Titel
Carbon nanotubes: Applications, chance, risks und transfer strategies
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Vortrag gehalten auf dem Jahreskongress der Innovationsallianz CNT 2011, 25. bis 27. Januar 2011, Ettlingen
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Carbon Nanotubes: Anwendungen, Chancen, Risiken und Umsetzungsstrategien
Abstract
Since their discovery carbon nanotubes (CNT) are considered as one of the major material innovations of the last decades. Their enormous versatility enable CNT to be used a vast amount of applications, such as lightweight structures, flexible electronics' and conductive composites. Fraunhofer IPA's department 670 Process Engineering of Functional Materials is working for ten years in the field of nano carbon based processes and applications. Today, nano materials and nano objects have taken an important role within the global research activities. To assess the enormous potential of those sub micron sized materials a comprehensive knowledge about the physics and chemical properties has to be developed. However, the R&D cost is tremendous and researchers as well as investors around the world feel the need for fast innovation. As a result real value adding innovations based on CNT are rare today. This talk will show applications, as well as problems of CNT based products. Furthermore the author will discuss some transfer strategies which are supposed to improve the innovation process.