Our group recieves Spark Award 2023
Marco D'Elia, Prof. Walter Caseri and Prof. Markus Niederberger received together with colleagues from University of Milan the prestigious Spark award 2023 for their recyclable anticorrosion coating for metals with self-healing properties. Congratulations!
(Photograph: Oliver Bartenschlager / ETH Zurich) Winners of the 2023 Spark Award (l-r):Melvin Renggli, Yingying Yu, Alessandro Sauceda, Walter Caseri, Marco D’Elia and Mirko Magni with Vanessa Wood, ETH’s Vice President for Knowledge Transfer and Corporate Relations. (Photograph: Oliver Bartenschlager / ETH Zurich)
The Spark Award honors the most promising invention, which resulted in a patent application in the past year. The criteria for the evaluation are originality, patent strength and market potential.
Reference
D’Elia Marco F., Magni Mirko, Romanò Thomas, Trasatti Stefano P. M., Niederberger Markus, Caseri Walter R.: Smart Anticorrosion Coatings Based on Poly(phenylene methylene): An Assessment of the Intrinsic Self-Healing Behavior of the Copolymer. external page Polymers 2022, 14(17), 3457.