VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is the largest multidisciplinary research organisation in Northern Europe.

Could plastic have a rival in a combination of wood fibres and spider silk?

The unique material outperforms most of today’s synthetic and natural materials by providing high strength and stiffness, combined with increased toughness. Achieving strength and extensibility at the same time has so far been a great challenge in material engineering: increasing strength has meant losing extensibility and vice versa. Now Aalto University and VTT researchers have

Could plastic have a rival in a combination of wood fibres and spider silk?

Now you can sweat it and have your sweat monitored

Needle pricks not your thing? A team of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, is developing wearable skin sensors that can detect what’s in your sweat. They hope that one day, monitoring perspiration could bypass the need for more invasive procedures like blood draws, and provide real-time updates on health problems such as dehydration

Now you can sweat it and have your sweat monitored

Mobile hyperspectral camera can be used to detect plant diseases, skin diseases, counterfeit art, faults in food and more

Specim Oy, a VTT spin-off, has developed the world’s first mobile hyperspectral camera for the fast, high-level analysis of a range of samples. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland contributed its own expertise to the development project, in the form of fast measurement data processing algorithms and methods. The extremely high-precision hyperspectral camera, which resembles a

Mobile hyperspectral camera can be used to detect plant diseases, skin diseases, counterfeit art, faults in food and more

Saving lives by revolutionizing the way black ice is detected while saving gas

A new Finnish invention by EEE Innovations Ltd and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland revolutionizes the way black ice is detected and provides several other improvements in traffic safety as well. The software installed in vehicles can also guide drivers to drive more economically. Software-based, the invention can be installed into a majority of

Saving lives by revolutionizing the way black ice is detected while saving gas

Pioneering technology makes OPEC countries prime regions to produce synthetic fuels from the air

Pioneering technology makes OPEC countries prime regions to produce synthetic fuels. This could be a key asset in phasing out fossil fuels after the Paris Agreement, while also keeping some of the existing oil industry value chain intact The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) holds its 172nd meeting in Vienna on Thursday, May

Pioneering technology makes OPEC countries prime regions to produce synthetic fuels from the air

Concentrated solar power plus traditional power plant hybrid reduces emissions and fuel use by 33 percent

Led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the COMBO-CFB project has developed a new innovative concept to increase solar energy production in the energy system. According to this research, the concept can reduce fuel consumption and emissions stressing the climate by more than 33 per cent. The concept is based on the combination of

Concentrated solar power plus traditional power plant hybrid reduces emissions and fuel use by 33 percent

Plant-based drinking bottles and paints can be easily and inexpensively scaled up

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an environmentally sound and economical method for producing furan dicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from plant sugars for the production of drinking bottles, paints and industrial resins, for example. This technology enables production of plant-based products. The main production material of drinking bottles is still oil-based PET although there

Plant-based drinking bottles and paints can be easily and inexpensively scaled up

Almost electricity-free solar cooling and heat pump

Demand and the need for cooling are growing as the effects of climate change intensify. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and German company ZAE Bayern have built an emission-free, solar-powered chiller; a pilot system has been tested in Finland and Germany. The potential market is world-wide, particularly in warm countries. The production and consumption

Almost electricity-free solar cooling and heat pump

Flexible LED displays containing printed electronics ready for roll-to-roll manufacturing

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has, for the first time, performed all manufacturing stages for a flexible in-moulded LED foil -in roll-to-roll process. The purpose of this demo is to prove the suitability of the technique for the highly cost-effective manufacture of products such as flexible LED displays containing printed electronics. All smart electronics

Flexible LED displays containing printed electronics ready for roll-to-roll manufacturing

An easy-to-customise LED foil suitable for mass production enables large area lighting and display technologies

From vehicles to architectural lighting VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland develops novel LED light sources based on large, flexible and transparent substrates in collaboration with the Finnish companies Flexbright and Lighting Design Collective. An easy-to-customise LED foil suitable for mass production enables the introduction of the large area lighting and display technologies to applications

An easy-to-customise LED foil suitable for mass production enables large area lighting and display technologies

Pilot operation of first compact CO2 to liquid fuels plant that can fit in a shipping container

Demand-driven production of liquid fuels from regenerative energy sources is a major element of the energy turnaround. Production of synthetic fuels from solar energy and carbon dioxide extracted from air is the objective of the SOLETAIR project started now by INERATEC, a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in cooperation with Finnish partners. Together,

Pilot operation of first compact CO2 to liquid fuels plant that can fit in a shipping container

Developing technologies for extracting valuable metals from metallurgical waste and low-grade ores

The EU area is experiencing challenges in sourcing critical metals. Solutions to this are being sought by the METGROW+ project, coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Researchers are developing technologies for extracting valuable metals from metallurgical waste and low-grade ores, from which recovery is not yet economically viable. The research is serving European

Developing technologies for extracting valuable metals from metallurgical waste and low-grade ores

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Finnish scientists produce ‘sustainable’ coffee
No need to panic, coffee addicts, looks like scientists came up with a “plan B” in case all the natural coffee sources vanish. With climate change threatening traditional coffee farming, Finnish ...
Lab-Grown Coffee Is Here, And Scientists Who Made It Claim It Is ‘More Sustainable’
Scientists in Finland have produced a variety of coffee from cell cultures, and its aroma and taste apparently resemble the real coffee ...
A Finnish research centre has successfully produced synthetic coffee
While coffee experts might consider the idea sacrilege, a group of Finnish scientists have recently managed to produce artificial coffee through cell cultures. According to the VTT Technical Research ...
Wake up and smell the ‘sustainable’ coffee produced in Finnish lab
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland may have come up with a more sustainable alternative to growing coffee beans by floating cell cultures in bio-reactors filled with a nutrient medium ...
Finnish scientists produce coffee in laboratory
With climate change threatening traditional coffee farming, Finnish scientists say they have produced coffee from cell cultures with an aroma and taste resembling the real thing.

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Can lab-made coffee pass the taste test?
Heikki Aisala of the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. (SOUNDBITE)(English) VTT RESEARCH SCIENTIST IN CHARGE OF THE EVALUATION, HEIKKI AISALA, SAYING: "There is a noticeable roasted odor and ...
New Disney+ Series JUST BEYOND Invites Us Into R.L. Stine’s Mind
As the song says, “In olden days, a glimpse of stocking/Was looked on as something shocking/But now, God knows/Anything goes.” And it certainly does look like anything could happen in Disney+ ...
Science news
New research involving Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists shows that water can remain liquid in a metastable state when transitioning from liquid to a dense form of ice at ...
Biotechnology news
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has successfully produced coffee cells in a bioreactor through cellular agriculture. The innovation can help to make the production of coffee more sustainable.
Spinnova Collaboration Presents Breakthrough Circular Fibers At NYFW, Following $135 Million IPO
Founded in 2014, following over 10 years of research with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Spinnova has developed a unique engineering-led fiber manufacturing process, unlike other ...