Released: The award ceremony of the first Grade2XL Design Contest
During the annual conference Meeting Materials of 15 December, organized by M2i, Grade2XL held its first open Additive Manufacturing Design Contest for young engineers. The video of the Award Ceremony has been released.
Chrysoula Ioannidou wins a prestigious Vanadium Award from IOM3
M2i PhD researcher Chrysoula Ioannidou received international Vanadium Award from Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) institute for the most outstanding paper in the metallurgy and technology of vanadium and its alloys.
Interview Albert Polman at the M2i Conference 2020
During the M2i Conference Meeting Materials of 15 December 2020, chair man Rob Boom interviewed Albert Polman (Amolf) and Bert van Haastrecht (M2i) about the National Materials Report and the MaterialenNL platform. Did you miss it? Watch the interview here.
Smart*light: Interview with Dr. Hessel Castricum
Dr. Hessel Castricum, working at 3mE at the TU Delft, was interviewed about his work as project leader for the Interreg project Smart*Light by an advisor of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate. In the interview he explains the new technology being developed, how it can be applied in different fields, the initial project results and the objectives for the future.
First Grade2XL Design Contest: a success!
During the annual conference Meeting Materials of 15 December, organized by M2i, Grade2XL held its first open Additive Manufacturing Design Contest for young engineers.
Looking back at Meeting Materials 15 December 2020
We look back at a successful online conference with a total of 380 participants on both days. Different than other years, this years conference was online due to COVID-19. This year the program consists of interesting workshops and presentations.
New M2i initiatives – call for participants
M2i’s core mission is: To support both industry and society in finding solutions for materials-related questions in product development and production processes. We are currently preparing initiatives on a range of different materials-related subjects. Interested partners are invited to contact us with their ideas, and more specifically on the following subjects.
Sessie over wetenschappelijke infrastructuur voor materialen voor de energietransitie (Dutch only)
Op 15 december 2020 van 15.00 uur tot 17.00 uur organiseert M2i in samenwerking met het NWO instituut DIFFER een sessie over de wetenschappelijke infrastructuur voor materialen voor de energie transitie.
M2i collects material knowledge for reuse and recycling of solar panels
M2i has been asked by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and the Province of South Holland (PSH) to conduct a study with the aim of mapping existing material knowledge for the reuse and recycling of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels and foils. In the coming decades, a fast growing number of PV products will be discarded after the first use phase. At the same time, the PV value chain will have to be fully circular by 2050. This requires solutions for circular design, reuse and recycling.
QUALIFY project results at Meeting Materials, M2i Conference, 15th December 2020
The project QUALIFY (Enabling Qualification of Hybrid Structures for Lightweight and Safe Maritime Transport), co-funded by the INTERREG 2SeasMers Zeeën Programme, aims to remove the technological and regulatory barriers that currently prevent the widespread application of hybrid primary structures (metal/composite) in the maritime industry.
PhD defense Camila Gomez: cum laude!
M2i is proud to announce that on November 25th, 2020, Camila Gomez defended her PhD thesis “Heat transfer and boiling phenomena during quenching by water jet impingement”. The project was a collaboration between M2i, NWO-I, TATA Steel, and TU Eindhoven. Camila obtained her PhD cum laude, making her the first woman to ever receive a Mechanical Engineering cum laude PhD in TU/e.
WAAM DESIGN CONTEST: APPLICATION OPEN!
During the annual conference Meeting Materials, organized by M2i, the Grade2XL project will organize an open Additive Manufacturing Design Contest for young engineers as part of the Grade2XL project. We therefore challenge all young engineers and researchers to design a novel product, to be printed with wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM).
ENGAGE-in-AM
ENGAGE-in-AM is an M2i-initiative in collaboration with TU Delft and the University of Twente and is preselected for HTSM-fundig. This is one of the M2i initiatives that go to the 2nd round of the HitMaT Call.
M2i nominated for 3 projects in HTSM HiTMaT Call 2020
To clarify and boost the importance of high-tech innovation in social themes and missions, Topsector HTSM annually organizes the HiTMaT Call.
M2i & 4TU.HTM Business Awareness Course
The business awareness course of M2i and 4TU.HTM prepares PhD students and Post-doctoral researchers in the later stages of their projects on their future career in industry or academia.
Successful completion of SUNRISE CSA
From March 2019 until July 2020, M2i has carried out the project management of SUNRISE, a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) awarded by the European Commission.
SAVE THE DATE! Meeting Materials 2020 – ONLINE
Different than usual and earlier announcements, this year the M2i Conference will take place virtually.
Design Contest for Young Engineers
During its annual conference Meeting Materials, M2i will organise an open Design Contest for young engineers.
Workshop: Enabling Multi-Functional Design through Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing (ENGAGE-in-AM)
On 9 October from 09.00-12.30 hrs M2i together with TU Delft and UTwente will organize a workshop for industrial companies working or willing to work with powder-bed AM, materials, equipment suppliers and end-users.
ITEA project VMAP released version 0.4 of its interoperability standard
After releasing the first public version of the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) data interface standard in January, the ITEA VMAP project has now started distributing version 0.4 of this interoperability standard for the creation of use cases external to the project (available on www.vmap.eu.com).
Final event ASPECT at ESAFORM 2020
From 4 to 6 May 2020, the ESAFORM Conference was organised for the first time as on-line conference. In its frame, the ASPECT consortium held a mini-symposium “Tribology in Sheet Metal Forming Processes” as final event. The mini-symposium was organised by Twente University. The ASPECT partners M2i, Philips, Opel, ESI-Group, Tata Steel, TriboForm, Filzek Tribotech, Zeller&Gmelin and inspire all presented their papers. All papers are published in Procedia Manufacturing Vol. 47.
Conference on Material Forming ESAFORM 2020
The 23rd International Conference on Material Forming ESAFORM 2020 will take place virtually on 4th-6th May 2020
Kick-off new Horizon 2020 project Grade2xl
On 11-12 March, the kick-off meeting of Grade2XL took place at the Science centrum in Delft, followed by a visit to RAMLAB in Rotterdam. Due to current travel restrictions related to coronavirus pandemie not all project partners could travel to Delft and Webex on-line participation was organized for non-travelers.
POSTPONED: M2i & 4TU.HTM Business Awareness Course
M2i and 4TU.HTM are organizing a business awareness course for Post-doctoral researchers and PhD students in the later stages of their projects.