CORE BUSINESS
LIST-MATERIALS pools its skills and technologies to improve materials technologies for the industry, including the space sector.
Our research and technology activities rely on the following fields of expertise:
- Nanomaterials and nanotechnology
- Composite materials
- Manufacturing technologies
- Scientific instrumentation
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Specific to the space sector, MRT activities target five priority technologies:
- Advanced manufacturing for space applications, aiming at manufacturing new (multi-)functional, lightweight or durable composite materials, by a combined approach of instrumented and robotized processes, adequate numerical modelling and testing.
- Thin Film technologies. Based on a large panel of industry-scalable deposition technologies, MRT develops thin film technologies for a wide range of surface functionalities.
- Technologies for energy, targeting more powerful, lightweight and safer energy storage, generators and innovative energy harvestors.
- Autonomous Sensors. MRT develops miniaturized temperature, mechanical & chemical sensors based on innovative sensing technologies and printing technologies.
- Scientific Instrumentation for space, focusing on miniaturized instruments and sensors platforms, for space exploration, autonomous in-space manufacturing and in-habitat monitoring.
TECHNICAL MEANS
Up-scalable processing technologies
- (bio-based) Raw materials refining and modification
- Synthesis of nano-structures, nano-particles and organic chemistry
- Powder engineering
- Thin-film processing, engineering and devices
- Polymer Processing
- Composite manufacturing
Advanced characterisation & Functional measurements
- Molecular analysis
- Elemental and isotopic analyses
- Structure, morphology and topography
- Non-destructive Inspection
- Mechanical testing
- Accelerated ageing
- Thermal analysis
- Characterization of optical & electrical properties
Numerical simulation
- Commercial codes (finite element, molecular dynamics, crystal plasticity)
- In-house codes (finite element, composite, boundary element method, e-Xtended finite element, XEFG)
MAIN CUSTOMERS
Airbus DS, Axon’ Cable, CNES, CSL, ESA, Euro-Composites, Gradel, I-space, KLEOS, Luxspace, Molecular Plasma Group SA, NASA, SouthWest Research Institute, Thales Alenia Space.
MAJOR SPACE PROJECTS
- Super-black coating technology for complex opto-mechanical systems
- Miniaturized mass spectrometers for space exploration
- Miniaturised chemical sensors for the monitoring of molecular contamination on payload surfaces.
- Anti-static ETFE based nanocomposite
- Improved thermal conductivity of epoxy resin
- Carbon-based solutions for super-capacitors, Li-ion batteries and fuel cells
- Software tool enabling numerical analyses of composite space structures
- Fully integrated stress-temperature sensors for structural health monitoring
- Antibacterials-antifungal coatings for in-orbit habitat
- In-space pultrusion manufacturing
