CRP Italy Satellite Partner

	Partner Identity
	Legal Name of host Institution: Centro Ricerche Plast-optica SpA Name of Dept./Lab involved in NoE:   Host Institution Internet Address: www.crpo.itr Responsible Scientist: Andrea Pipino email Active in WP#:   # of Participating Scientists: 2

	Material relevant to the Institute

	General Research Activities of the Dept./Lab
	Plastics Optics Nanotechnologies

	Research Activities relevant to NoE
	See pdf1 and pdf2

	Contribution to NoE (Analytical description)
	As industrial research center, CRP will contribute to NoE in different WPs: WP5 and WP9 for polymer processing study of nanocomposites, WP6 and WP10 for the properties of nanomaterial also using molecular modelling simulation, WP7 and WP11 for application in automotive fields, WP12 for LCE application to development of part design. Finally also a contribution in WP15 for technology transfer in its area of competence.

	Dedicated Staff
	1. Pipino Andrea email 2. Biondo Viviana email

List of relevant publications

The new frontiers of plastics, Redauto Technological Day Materiali Nanocompositi, CRF Technological Day

List of infrastructure/ facilities of host Institution

• Injection moulding lab (100 tonn, mini 6 tonn)
• Capabilities for chemical-physical characterisation of materials (DSC, DMTA, Izod and Charpy test, spectrophotometer UV-VIS, FT-IR, atomic force microscope (AFM), environmental scanning electron microscopy, optical microscopy, profilometer, ellipsometer, etc.
• Electroforming machine for the production of nickel inserts for moulds aimed at mass production of microstructured injection moulded products
• Microlithography for the production of diffractive micro-optics master
• Packaging of innovative solid state light sources
• Ultra high vacuum chamber deposition for the production of OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode)
• Design department: molecular modelling, structural analysis, process analysis (mouldflow), optical simulation