Polymer thin films are of high interest in various industries mainly due to their low cost, low thermal load, light weight, flexibility and transparency. Recent studies are showing that polymeric film with controlled nanoscale features can provide systems with radically new chemical or physical properties (i.e. mechanical protection, super-hydrophobicity, antireflectivity, etc…). In traditional sectors, such as large scale steel and glass surface manufacturing, coil coating, dip coating and spray techniques are fully industrialized with high throughput processes. However, they all lead to high thickness, without mastering the nanostructure itself. Therefore, merging nanoscale precision with mass production constraints is a key challenge to open the door to new generations of high added value products.

NAPOLYDE project, supported by the European Commission brings together over 20 to innovative SME’s with research and academic centers.The overall goal of this Integrated Project is to develop new technologies and processes with full control of the nanoscale for mass-production of new highly innovative products, integrating such size dependant properties. The NAPOLYDE key challenge is to bridge the gap between nano-scale precision and mass production requirements in the field of thin film polymer deposition. The overall objectives are the development of new process technologies: wet (sol-gel, sono-chemistry or self assembly) and dry deposition processes (plasma CVD, sputtering, …) and to provide nanolayering, nanoclustering and nanotexturing of organic thin films in mass production. It includes also measurement instruments and design tools to control these deposition technologies at industrial scale (in-situ continuous characterization tools, simulation models…) and the scale-up methodologies and know-how to support new technologies introduction inside industrial processing chains.

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