Ignace Verpoest

A few words about our speaker:

Ignace Verpoest is head of the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium.

Research topics:

Composite materials (fibre reïnforced plastics)
Textiles and textile based composites
Innovative processing of thermoplastic composites (a.o. self-reinforced TP-composites, in-situ polymerisation of TP-composites, short-fibre composites)
Natural fibre reinforced composites
Sandwich materials and continuously produced honeycomb cores (paper and plastic based)

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