Opus Materials Technologies LTD.

Icing represents a complex and expensive problem in different industrial and energy applications -- aircraft, wind turbines, power lines -- causing incidents and severe accidents. The main mitigation methods rely on mechanical breaking of the ice, electrical heating, and de-icing chemicals. These are expensive, inefficient, unreliable, and environmentally...

The AlwaysClean project will establish laboratory scale verification & field evaluation that a durable easy clean coating for solar PV market can be achieved by the use of novel nanostructured additives. This coating will improve the operational PV performance by preventing dirt and grime accumulation on solar PV modules & reducing or eliminating the asso...

Ice formation on aircraft, wind turbines and power lines is a major cost to industry and an ongoing cause of fatal air crashes and accidents from ice-shedding. Current ice-mitigation technologies rely on mechanical breaking of the ice, electrical heating or application of de-icing chemicals. These are expensive, inefficient, unreliable, and damaging to th...

The SOLplus project will explore the feasibility of using novel nanostructured coatings to improve the operational performance of solar PV by preventing dirt and grime accumulation on solar PV modules and reducing or eliminating the associated drop in power output (typically up to 10-20%). The project will establish the proof of principle that these durab...

To develop high performance, novel, super-hydrophobic, self-cleaning coatings to increase the levels of incident light reaching the photovoltaic device to maximise the efficiency of the module and reduce maintenance costs. Thus encouraging even wider commercial adoption of PV through increased economic return (the value of green energy output divided by t...