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Bayer Materialscience Sandwich Structure: Translucent Design Elements for InteriorsSandwich structures made of different polymeric materials open up a wide range of possibilities for customized products with very diverse properties.
Automotive applications may focus on reducing weight while maintaining a high level of stiffness, for example, but the key considerations in the construction sector can be quite different.
Bayer MaterialScience, one of the world's leading providers of high-tech materials and solutions, has been working closely with the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences on the project "Inside Outside - Building with Sandwiches".
This project was carried out over the course of just under a year and investigated new sandwich material combinations for interior design.
The project examined surfaces, core layers, intermediate layers and the combination of various components according to different design criteria and with a view to their suitability for use in construction applications.
The project - now completed - focused on various areas including large-area translucent components with a polyurethane foam core and facings made of the transparent polycarbonate Makrolon.
Some of the specimen sandwiches produced in Bayer MaterialScience's polyurethane Technical Service Center have now been displayed as part of a cube at the "Material2Light" exhibition in the Designhaus in Darmstadt and also at the Luminale, part of the "light+building" trade fair in the same town.
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April 21, 2008 | Viewed 28,116 time(s)
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