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A Targeted Approach

HIMALAIA will develop and demonstrate the industrial relevance of the first up-scalable, adaptable, industrially relevant, cost-effective manufacturing platform that will allow the mass-production of functional structured surfaces.

Our approach

Surfaces texturing

Technologies for surface patterning/texturing/engineering

Function simulation

Simulation tool for functional micro-structured surfaces

Assisted injection moulding

integration, demonstration and validation of the platform

Monitoring and metrology

Characterization technologies and tools

90%

REPLICATION
EFFICIENCY

30%

COST PRODUCTION REDUCTION

99%

REDUCTION IN LEAVING BACTERIA

60%

PROCESS CONFIGURATION REDUCTION

Latest Publications

Conferences, events and publications.

Workshop HIMALAIA Project

Join us on a webinar ! 25th February 2021 - 10:30 AM CET Do you want to develop functional mono-material 3D plastic parts with micro/nano-structured surfaces like antimicrobial, anti-scratch, self-cleaning, anti-squeak or aesthetic propertis? It’s [...]

Photonic Nanojet: a promising fabrication tool for producing functionalized surfaces

Photonic Nanojet: a promising fabrication tool for producing functionalized surfaces Photonic nanojet is a maskless subwavelength-resolution direct write nanopatterning tool combining several physical phenomena at subwavelength scale. CEA’s team focuses on the fabrication and [...]

Himalaia publication

Himalaia publication The team of Prof. Stefan Dimov from the department of Mechanical Engineering of University of Birmingham (UoB) has published the first HIMALAIA publication. Reference: Qi, S, Li, X & Dong, H 2019, [...]

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“God made the bulk, surfaces were invented by the Devil.”

W. E. PAULI, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER

Trusted Partners

The HIMALAIA consortium links 10 carefully chosen partners including 1 plastic industry and research association, 3 research institutes, 2 international mass-manufacturers, 1 SME developing and producing orthodontic products, 1 provider of machining solutions, 1 manufacturer of high precision optical surface metrology equipment and 1 firm specialized in the multi-level management of R&D projects.

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