R&D-works on the modification and treatment of polymers as well as on intelligent polymer additives with reactive and/or functional characteristics of

• Polyamide, Polyester, Polyolefine and liquid crystalline polymers (LCP) and Polymer blends
• Development of functional, migration-able polymer-additives with special protectional functions for formulations in polyamides and polyesters with high efficiency
• Synthesis and modification of thermal stable polymer-systems for the diaphragm cutting-off technology and/or the use in PEM gas cells
  
  

R&D-service

• Synthesis of highly efficient additives for UV-protection, with antibacterial or other functional characteristics for polyamide, polyesters
• Determination of the UV protection factor (UPF) from textiles according to DIN EN ISO13758-1
• Optical-microscope analysis under temperature till 600 °C for particle and pollutant analysis and/or polymer characterisation (crystallization, nucleating) inclusive picture-documentation
• Characterisation of membranes and technological process-analysis of membrane separation processes in the membrane separation technology

Applications

• Hydrolysis- stabilised PP
• Cross linked and partly cross linked formulations of polymers in polypropylene and polyamide
• UV-protection in polyamides and polyesters with highly efficient additives for filaments and fibres, UV-protecting textiles, functional textiles
• Surface-effective polymer-additives for antibacterial finishing of polyamide filaments
• temperature-resistant polymer-membranes for wet separation processes in the ultra and micro filtration
• Alternative polymer materials for the utilisation in PEM-fuel ce

Mr. Prof. Dr. Klaus Heinemann
Head of the department Physical Research and Functional Polymer Systems
phone: 0049 3672 / 379 230
fax:  0049 3672 / 379 379
email:  heinemann(a)titk.de

Thuringian Institute of Textile
and Plastics Research
Breitscheidstraße 97
07407 Rudolstadt
Germany
email: info(a)titk.de
phone: 0049 3672 / 379 0
fax:  0049 3672 / 379 379