RadTech International North America presented its Special University Award to a faculty-student research team at Eastern Michigan University’s Coatings Research Institute (EMU CRI) (Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA) for its contributions to the advancement of novel and sustainable UV-curable coatings.
RadTech is a nonprofit trade association with more than 500 members worldwide dedicated to advancing ultraviolet and electron beam (UV+EB) curing technologies. Its mission is to promote the safe use and development of UV+EB processes by offering energy savings, pollution elimination, greater productivity, higher yields, and the opportunity to enable improved, new, or unique products.
Vijay Mannari, a CRI professor and director, and Neda Hayeri, an EMU doctoral student, received the award at the 2023 Big Ideas for UV+EB Conference in San Diego, California, USA.
“Receiving this award means a lot to me, as it recognizes the outstanding contribution of the EMU faculty-student team,” Mannari says. “This also marks our innovation capabilities in 3-D [three-dimensional] printing materials, a rapidly emerging advanced materials space.”
According to EMU, the new generation of UV-cured coatings and films invented by Mannari’s research group has the potential for automotive, anticorrosive, and many other industrial applications. EMU has recently patented this technology, and Mannari’s research group is currently working on its application as advanced material for 3-D printing, also known as additive manufacturing.
Source: EMU CRI www.emich.edu/cet/coatings-research-institute.