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The Holst Centre network welcomes Solvay
Solvay joins Holst Centre research programme on systems in foil (SIF).
The international chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay signs an agreement to become part of the research network of Holst Centre, an open innovation initiative by IMEC (Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands).
Flexible organic electronics, SIF, will in the future be driven by an industry producing, laminating and combining a variety of smart foils. As an example, one can envisage light emitting foils, memory and processing foils being powered by a battery or organic photovoltaic (OPV), forming products like intelligent wall paper, smart bandages and smart windows. This requires an entire chain of production, involving companies with dedicated know-how in one or some of the intermediate steps. Getting a systems in foil product efficiently to the market will therefore require insight in the vast number of possible technologies and solutions. Also, this allows industrial standardisation being set up in an early stage.
To support this vision, Holst Centre gathers an entire ecosystem of materials suppliers, equipment vendors and integrated device manufacturers around a shared research programme with a well defined central roadmap. Solvay is the newest partner joining in the systems in foil program. It thereby adds another impressive name to a list of partners: ASML, Agfa, Akzo Nobel, Bekaert, Huntsman, Merck, NXP, Orbotech, Philips, Polymer Vision and Singulus Mastering.
The contract is signed between Solvay and TNO, co-ordinator of the systems in foil programme. By joining the programme, Solvay will actively take part in the research on site of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, where Holst Centre is located. Industrial residents of Solvay will join forces with the interdisciplinary teams of Holst Centre researchers, PhDs and industrial residents of the other programme partners.
Flexible organic electronics, SIF, will in the future be driven by an industry producing, laminating and combining a variety of smart foils. As an example, one can envisage light emitting foils, memory and processing foils being powered by a battery or organic photovoltaic (OPV), forming products like intelligent wall paper, smart bandages and smart windows. This requires an entire chain of production, involving companies with dedicated know-how in one or some of the intermediate steps. Getting a systems in foil product efficiently to the market will therefore require insight in the vast number of possible technologies and solutions. Also, this allows industrial standardisation being set up in an early stage.
To support this vision, Holst Centre gathers an entire ecosystem of materials suppliers, equipment vendors and integrated device manufacturers around a shared research programme with a well defined central roadmap. Solvay is the newest partner joining in the systems in foil program. It thereby adds another impressive name to a list of partners: ASML, Agfa, Akzo Nobel, Bekaert, Huntsman, Merck, NXP, Orbotech, Philips, Polymer Vision and Singulus Mastering.
The contract is signed between Solvay and TNO, co-ordinator of the systems in foil programme. By joining the programme, Solvay will actively take part in the research on site of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, where Holst Centre is located. Industrial residents of Solvay will join forces with the interdisciplinary teams of Holst Centre researchers, PhDs and industrial residents of the other programme partners.
