COMET–Center (K1)
The COMET Center (K1) of the Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH (Wood K plus) with the title „WOOD: next generation materials and processes – from fundamentals to implementations“ is funded within COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies - by BMK (Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology), BMDW (Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs) as well as the co-financing federal provinces Carinthia, Lower Austria and Upper Austria (see Funding providers). Das COMET programme is managed by FFG (www.ffg.at/comet).
COMET is the red-white-red programme of science and industry to support application-oriented cutting-edge research in Austria. COMET creates highly qualified jobs and promotes young scientists in Austria. COMET Competence Centers work together with companies and research partners to enable a direct transfer of new knowledge into marketable products, services and processes.
Factsheet Comet-Center - Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH (Wood K plus)
COMET – Module
The COMET-Module of the Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH (Wood K plus) with the title „i3Sense: Intelligent, integrated and impregnated cellulose-based sensors for reliable bio-based structures” is funded within COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies - by BMK (Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology), BMDW (Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs) as well as the co-financing federal provinces Carinthia, Lower Austria and Upper Austria. Das COMET programme is managed by FFG (www.ffg.at/comet).
The COMET Module aims to establish promising/emerging fields of research and thus new fields of expertise to strengthen Austria’s position as a research location, preparing for future challenges. COMET Modules are characterised by research of especially high-risk. COMET Modules are thematically defined research areas which carry out excellent top-level research to open up new topics being way beyond the state-of-the-art.
Success Stories Wood K plus (selection):
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Statistical design of experiments for knowledge-based production
- Microbial upgrading of a side stream from cellulose fiber production
- Melamine-based self-healing coating systems
- More efficient membrane separation through better understanding of molecular interactions
- Mathematical model provides insight into gluing of wood particles
- New ways to produce superhydrophobic wood surfaces
- Weather-resistant coating systems for wood and wood based composites
- Bio-based materials for additive manufactur-ing (am) with excellent impact strength
- Investigation of the ractivity of furfural for an improved biorefiniery process
- Textile chemical-modified viscose fibers have been successfully developed
- Crosslinked lignosulfonate as biobased material of the future
- Determination of γ-value and xanthate group distribution on viscose by liquid-state 1H NMR spectroscopy
- Bright prospects due to new multi layer coatingsystem
- Understanding new interfaces – a strategic dissertation
- Industry 4.0.: Potential for the digisation of the Austrian sawmill industry
Press und Media Contact:
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