doi:10.3850/978-981-08-6555-9_174


Flexible Compression Injection Moulding Platform for Multi-scale Surface Structures: the IMPRESS FP7 Project


M. Moguedet1, E. Bambury2, N. Blondiaux3, D. Cosgun4, S. Dimov5, H. Eingenbrod6, B. Fillon7, JM. Gruber8, Z. Guttenberg9, JL. Halper10, P. Juliet7, S. Kaller11, KU. Modrich12, R. Pugin3, N. Ribeiro13, M. Rochowicz6, G. Salaun14, S. Scholz5, M. Totzeck12 and P. Vuillermoz15

1Pôle Européen de Plasturgie, 2 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Oyonnax, France

2Crospon Limited - Galway Business Park, Galway, Ireland

3CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique - 1, rue Jaquet-Droz, 2002 Neuchatel, Switzerland

4Billion - 1, rue Victor Hugo, 01100 Bellignat, France

5Cardiff University - 30-36, Newport Road, CF24 0DE Cardiff, United Kingdom

6IPA Fraunhofer Institute, Nobelstr. 12, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

7CEA LITEN - 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9 - France

8Kistler Instrumente AG - PO Box, CH-8404 Winterthur, Switzerland

9BCBG - Beckman Coulter Biomedical GmbH - 50, Sauerbruchstrasse, 81377 Muenchen, Germany

10Sillia énergie - 4 Avenue Pierre Marzin, 22300, Lannion, France

11ACP - Advanced Clean Production GmbH - Im Hasenlauf 2, 75446, Wiernsheim, Germany

12Carl Zeiss, 22, Carl Zeiss Strasse, 73447 Oberkochen, Germany

13Moldetipo - Rua da Norça, Pero Neto P.O. Box 167 2430-902 Marinha Grande, Portugal

14Cogemoule - 8bis, avenue de la gare, 01100 Bellignat, France

15Plastipolis, 180, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 01115 Oyonnax, France

ABSTRACT

Within the seventh framework programme, the IMPRESS project targets the development of a technological injection moulding platform for serial production of plastic components incorporating micro or nano scale functional features. The platform will be based on the gathering of up to date and most advanced facilities based on three main modules, each of them being a tool box including several building blocks :

-a tool manufacturing module involving different technologies of micro- nano direct manufacturing, from top-down to bottom-up such as self-assembling,

-an injection moulding module including equipments fitted with up to date hardware to improve replication quality and capability,

- an intelligence module dedicated to advanced process control and online metrology integration.

Beside this large panel of facilities, three case studies have been selected (biology, health and energy), each of them requiring a specific and well defined surface micro-nano texturation. These case studies cover a very large range of nano-feature (from 100nm up to 1 µm) and component size (from 1 cm2 up to 1000 cm2). They will serve to qualify the capabilities of the different building blocks and will allow (i) to select the most suitable building blocks as of application requirements (ii) to learn about the platform working and (iii) to anticipate the technological future of the platform.

Keywords: Micro-nanostructures, Injection moulding, Platform, Self assembly.


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