Welcome to the COLORaDO project page, your gateway to understanding ourgroundbreaking work in material science.
Our project focuses on developing innovative mechanoluminochromic polymeric materials that revolutionize the way we detect mechanical damage.
By enabling early detection through simple visual cues, COLORaDO aims to enhance the safety and integrity of vehicles, buildings, and electronic devices.
Dive into our project details to learn how we're transforming damage detection with cutting-edge technology and smart materials. Join us as we pave the way for a safer, more resilient future.
Mechanical damages can cause catastrophic failures in vehicles, buildings, and electronic devices, impairing military operations.
Methods to locate material damage are costly and time-consuming
Early detection of material damage represents a breakthrough that will significantly contribute to protecting vehicles, critical infrastructure, supplies, and personnel, as well as preventing illicit activities.
Mechanoluminochromic polymeric materials are the ideal candidates to achieve this goal.
These kinds of smart materials can change their fluorescence color in response to a mechanical stimulus, allowing for the monitoring of deformation and stress acting on the material without the need for laborious analysis or expensive equipment.
COLORaDO aims to develop and validate a new technology for on-field detection of material damages using mechanoluminochromic polymers and coatings exhibiting clear and measurable changes in optical properties when subjected to mechanical loadings (such as tensile forces, compressions, and impacts).
From additive selection to prototyping, each step is designed to ensure the highest level of precision and effectiveness.
Dive deeper to see how our activities are shaping the future of material science.
The successful achievement of project objectives will enable to detect critical and normally imperceptible damages through simple visual inspection using UV light, providing operators with a clear indication of the structural integrity of the analysed material.
