New Generation Nanocoatings for Automotive Interiors (NEWNANO)

该项目的主要目标是克服技术上的挑战，将新一代汽车行业涂料推向市场，提高其性能和性能。为了实现这一目标，我们建议开展这个合作项目，开发一种工艺，可以用于生产具有功能纳米粒子的涂料，其配方的数量超过实验室规模，并为工业规模的生产和商业化铺平道路。这种新配方涂料将用于增强表面性能，如硬度，耐磨性和防指纹，同时保持理想的光学性能，如清晰度和颜色。在实验规模制备的新配方的初步试验中，涂层硬度大大提高，同时保持了涂层通过真空成形加工成3D形状的能力。目前的工业需要开发新技术来大量生产这些产品，同时保持其优越的性能，这仍然是该项目需要解决的挑战。该项目的成功将为汽车内饰引入新的耐刮擦和易于清洁的涂层。这将使MA处于竞争优势，其在该行业的市场份额将增加约10倍，其在英国的生产将增加25%，从而增加就业机会。

The main objective of the project is to overcome technological challenges to take to market new generation coatings for the automotive industry with improved properties and enhanced performance. To be able to achieve this, it is proposed to undertake this collaborative project to develop a process that can be employed to produce coatings with functional nanoparticles in their formulation in quantities beyond lab scale and pave the way for industrial scale manufacture and commercialisation. Such new formulation coatings will be used to enhance surface properties such as hardness, abrasion resistance and anti-fingerprinting whilst maintaining desirable optical properties such as clarity and colour. A significant enhancement beyond the state-of-the art of coating hardness has been achieved in initial trials from new formulations prepared at bench scale, whilst maintaining the ability of the coating to be processed into 3D shapes by vacuum forming. Current industrial need to develop new technologies to produce these in larger quantities whilst maintaining their superior performance remains to be the challenge to address in this project. Success in this project will enable the introduction of new scratch resistant and easy clean coatings into automotive interiors. This will put MA at a competitive edge increasing its market share in the sector by an estimated x10, its production based in the UK by 25% and thereby employment opportunities.