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Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek (Vito)

Molecular Plasma Group Sa

The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe Ag

Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek

Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.v.

Bert Verheyde

Olof Wallquist

James Gregory Gillick

Jasper Lefevere

Dinesh Chandra

Bina Patel Botts

Ingo Rogner

Bart Michielsen

Dirk Vangeneugden

Michael Lawrence Gersman

Raphael Dabbous

Marjorie Dubreuil

Danny Havermans

Ingo Klüppel

Annick Vanhulsel

Sabine Paulussen

Dan Qu

Michael Strack

Rupert Konradi

Nicolé Scherf

Frederic Gerard Auguste Siffer

Erwin Constant Maria Van Hoof

Filip Motmans

Vijay Shankar Rangasamy

Jerome Bernard Hobelman

Dirk Leo Vangeneugden

A system and method for manufacturing three-dimensional structures is provided. The system includes plurality of printing stations and a robotic unit configured to interact with the plurality of printing stations, each of the plurality of printing stations being arranged to be accessible by the robotic unit. Each printing station includes a station controller for controlling at least one deposition control parameter. The system further includes a system controller configured to operate the robotic unit, and wherein the system controller is communicatively coupled to the plurality of printing stations for controlling at least an execution of printing tasks being performed on the plurality of printing stations. The station controllers are at least partially controllable by means of the system controller, wherein the system controller is configured to adjust at least one deposition control parameter of each printing station independent of deposition control parameters of other printing stations of the plurality of printing stations.

System and method for manufacturing three-dimensional structures

A system and method for manufacturing three-dimensional structures is provided. The system comprises a plurality of printing stations for performing parallel printing in an confined space enclosed by a housing, wherein each printing station comprises a carrier, a deposition unit with at least one nozzle arranged for dispensing filaments of build material paste through an opening area thereof and a station controller configured to operate the deposition unit for deposition of filaments of a build material paste on the carrier in an interconnected arrangement in a plurality of stacked layers in order to form one or more three-dimensional structures, the at least one nozzle and the detachable carrier being relatively moveable with respect to each other, wherein the deposition unit is coupled to a reservoir unit configured to house the build material paste, wherein the reservoir unit includes at least one reservoir arranged outside of the confined space.

A polymer substrate having deposited on its surface a reaction product of a precursor material obtained or obtainable by a method for preparation of polymer, and to the use of the polymer having improved antibacterial properties and/or antiviral properties or of the polymer having improved antibacterial properties and/or antiviral properties obtained or obtainable by the method for medical applications, antibiofouling applications, hygiene applications, food industry applications, industrial or computer related applications, consumer goods applications and appliances, public and public transport applications, underwater, water sanitation or seawater applications.

Antimicrobial and/or antiviral polymer surfaces and methods for the preparation thereof

A method for depositing functional groups on a surface of an object, and to the object treated as such, by generating and maintaining a plasma, bringing the object surface close to or in a space between the plasma electrodes, an atmosphere being present between the two electrodes, and depositing a plurality of functional groups on at least part of the surface of the object, wherein the atmosphere between the two electrodes comprises a multi-functional hyperbranched compound which is a polymer based on ABtype monomers, or a derivative of such polymer, wherein m is at least 2, A and B have reactive functional groups selected such that group A is reacted at least m times with group B, and the hyperbranched compound has a degree of branching (DB) in the range of 10.0-99.9%.

Plasma surface activation method and resulting object

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Bert Verheyde