The FlexFunction2Sustain Open Innovation Test Bed offers a variety of specialized services for physiochemical and functional characterisation for nanofunctionalized plastic and paper surfaces, membranes and products.

Available facilities include e.g.:

• Mechanical stress and strain tests conbined with (in-situ) permeation barrier failure analysis including strain test, 1-axis and multi-axes bending, rolling and nanoindentation tests
• Adhesion performance testing
• Abrasion and scratch resistance evaluation
• Large area optical surface inspection with confocal laser scanning microscopy and white-light interferometry
• Surface topography and surface chemistry analysis with atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, contact angle measurement and more
• Thin film optical analyses using spectrometry and spectroscopic ellipsometry
• Water vapor permeation barrier testing in a range from 10-6 g/(m²d) to 100 g/(m²d)
• Oxygen permeation barrier testing in a range from 10-2 cm³/(m²d bar) to > 100 cm³/(m²d bar)
• Analysis of performance of (organic) thin film semiconductor layers using voltametry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, sheet resistance measurement