SINTEF Materials and Chemistry

The research division has high competence within materials technology, applied chemistry and applied biology.Closely with industry we develop advanced materials, products, processes and new tools. New, environmental friendly processing methods increase productivity and raise quality standards.

News
Power to the people
Anita Fossdal and Fride Vullum-Bruer want the i-Phone’s battery to last longer – even when we are on Svalbard, and even when we have downloaded a whole load of apps.
SINTEF and ECN collaboration increase effectiveness in silicon PV R&D
SINTEF Materials & Chemistry and ECN signed an agreement to strengthen their long-standing collaboration in the field of crystalline silicon photovoltaics.
SINTEF reinvents Gyro Gearloose machine 
In a 1996 Donald Duck comic, inventor Gyro Gearloose has invented a super-machine that sorts cheap scrap and metal poured into a tube, while out of another pipe emerge gold and shiny new coins. Now, SINTEF scientists are trying to do the same thing.
Oil Spills in Arctic conditions
A research project at SINTEF contributes to safer oil spill response equipment in the Arctic.

Creating the plastics packaging of tomorrow out of wood
A wood fibre only 100 nanometres thick will help to give us tomorrow’s plastic food packaging, if SINTEF and its partners are successful.

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Subsidiary companies:
SINTEF Raufoss Manufacturing AS

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