Engineering of advanced materials
Our vision is to close the gap between fundamental research and real-world applications by developing modern high-performance materials for industrial use.
We create novel tailor-made materials on request based on our research expertise and large collaboration network.
Our services
Our core business is to provide cutting-edge R&D services for the benefit of industrial partners. First, we investigate the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties. It is achieved through internal R&D and collaboration with Swiss Institutes of Technology and European partners, to create requested innovative material.
The pipeline includes:
- Feasibility study and concept design
- Development
of new materials - Incremental improvement of existing materials
- Troubleshooting issues with currently used materials
- IP licensing and technology transfer
With broad experience in research, we have best expertise in material science, crystallography, applied physics and chemistry.
Projects content and results remain confidential.
Collaboration
We are aware that collaborating with other innovation centers and research entities is crucial. Scientific Visual maintains privileged relationships with:
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
EPFL- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is ranked as Europe's #1 and world's #15 university in the field of "Engineering/ Technology and Computer Sciences" in the academic ranking of world universities (ARWU).
Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology
CSEM - Centre Suisse d' Electronique et de Microtechnique, founded in 1984, is a private applied research and development center specializing in micro and nanotechnology, system engineering microelectronics and communications technologies.
Alliance - Swiss national consortium to encourage links between laboratories and enterprises and intensify technology transfer. Alliance's main interest lies in micro and nanotechnologies, information and communications, biomedical technologies, and material science.
Government of Canton de Vaud, Switzerland
Scientific Visual benefits of being awarded of Innovation Grant 2010 by cantonal government.
R&D in Switzerland
Compared to other countries, Switzerland has one of the highest levels of innovation and works hard to keep its excellence.
The Swiss authorities provide special assistance for enterprises in high-tech sectors. Projects with 'Science to Market' orientation are often supported by grants covering up to 50% of R&D expences. Scientific Visual benefits from this support to reduce development costs.
Material Engineering?
Rather than haphazardly looking for materials and exploiting their properties, the aim is instead to understand materials so that new ones with the desired properties can be created.
Material engineering is relating the desired properties and performance of a material in a certain application to the structure of the atoms and phases in that material. The major determinants of the structure and thus of its properties are its constituent chemical elements and the way in which it has been processed into its final form. Materials scientists manipulate the defects in crystalline materials such as precipitates, grain boundaries, interstitial atoms, vacancies or substitutional atoms, to create materials with the desired properties.