New Generation Nanocoatings for Automotive Interiors (NEWNANO)

该项目的主要目标是克服技术挑战，为汽车行业推出具有改进性能和增强性能的新一代涂料。为了能够实现这一目标，建议开展这一合作项目，以开发一种工艺，该工艺可用于生产配方中含有功能性纳米颗粒的涂料，其数量超过实验室规模，并为工业规模制造和商业化铺平道路。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，如透明度和颜色。在实验室规模制备的新配方的初始试验中，涂层硬度已经实现了超越现有技术的显著增强，同时保持了涂层通过真空成型加工成3D形状的能力。当前工业需要开发新技术来大量生产这些产品，同时保持其上级性能，这仍然是本项目要解决的挑战。该项目的成功将使新的耐刮擦和易清洁涂料引入汽车内饰。这将使MA处于竞争优势，使其在该行业的市场份额增加10倍，其在英国的生产增加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.