VBN is a partner in the NEXT consortium – Neutron and X-ray Science for Industrial Technology Transitions. The comprehensive NEXT consortium comprises a total of 24 partners from universities, companies, research institutes, and large scale research infrastructures.
The Vinnova Sustainable Industry competence centre, NEutron and X-ray science for industrial Technology transitions (NEXT), will co-create materials innovations for enabling sustainable industry transitions – using large scale neutron and synchrotron infrastructures (LSIs) as an enabling technology. With a budget of over SEK 100 million, collaborative research will co create solutions to sustainable industrial transformation challenges in the field of sustainable materials – using large-scale research infrastructures (LSIs) as an enabling technology.
The NEXT consortium is coordinated by KTH Royal Institute of Technology and supported by Vinnova.
VBN is participating in the project “Solidification and phase transformation control for sustainable manufacturing” run by Doctoral student Lu Meng under the supervision of Asscociate professor Greta Lindwall at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology.
Aim: Gain fundamental understanding of the materials’ behavior during manufacturing processes based on melting and solidification with special focus on AM and casting of recycled metals
Approach: In situ/operando observations by utilizing high-speed X-ray imaging and diffraction/scattering techniques and dedicated sample environment
