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COATING

Glass&Co.

WORKING TOGETHER TO STUDY

AND CREATE SPECIFIC COATINGS

FOR GLASS SURFACES

ver the next two der “Put your research idea reacting with silicon diox- tant constructions such as
years, the Poly- online”, promoted by the ide, would make the mate- houses, buildings and even
Otechnic University Polytechnic University of rial much more fragile. On bridges.
of Turin, the University of Turin and co-funded by the the contrary, the cover- The work team involves
Delft and Cromology Ita- Compagnia di San Paolo. ing film would consider- two departments of the
lia will work together on a Research was focused on ably improve the tensile Polytechnic University of
project named Glass&Co. the creation of two types strength. Turin: Structural, Con-
to create innovative coat- of polymeric coatings The second, and more struction and Geotechni-
ings, transparent films hardened by UV rays, with challenging coating aims cal Engineering, as well
able to improve the me- excellent adhesion proper- at creating a film that can as that of Applied Science
chanical performance of ties, and with thicknesses act as a buffer to redistrib- and Technology, headed by
glass, making it resistant that depend on their use. ute stress concentrations Dott. Mauro Corrado and
to be used as a supporting, The first work will be car- due to contact pressure Prof. Roberta Bongiovan-
load-bearing wall. ried out on hydrophobic on the edges. In this way, ni, which will be working
The project was one of the coating, used to protect the glass could be used as alongside the R&D team of
14 chosen during the ten- glass from water, which, a basic element for impor- Cromology Italia and, last

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