News & events
Highlights from the project, 2021–2025. BreadCell was also on X (Twitter).
- 4–6.3.2025The BreadCell helmet demonstrator was shown at the Tecnalia booth at the JEC Composites Show.
BreadCell helmet demonstrator at JEC Composites Show 2025 - 1.10.2024Reports published: evaluation of fibre foams in the automotive sector and fire performance of the fibre foams.
- 24.5.2024The BreadCell team took part in the Lange Nacht der Forschung (long night of research) in Graz and Vienna, Austria.
The BreadCell foam family, now including panels and sandwich structures - 17–19.4.2024The team demonstrated foam crashworthiness with a race car track at the Gothenburg Science Festival (Vetenskapsfestivalen).
Demonstrating crashworthiness at the Gothenburg Science Festival - 15–16.4.2024Consortium meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden – the premiere of our helmet demonstrator.
- 4–5.10.2023Consortium meeting in San Sebastián, Spain, featuring the pre-demonstrator BreadCell penny board. Watch the skateboard video.
Consortium meeting in San Sebastián, October 2023 - 26–28.9.2023BreadCell at the International Cellulose Conference (ICC 2022plus1) in Hiroshima, Japan.
ICC 2022plus1, Hiroshima - 18–22.9.2023BreadCell at the EPNOE International Conference 2023 in Graz, Austria.
EPNOE 2023, Graz - 12–14.9.2023BreadCell at the ECCOMAS Composites 2023 conference in Trapani, Italy.
- 14.6.2023Eliott Orzan’s licentiate seminar at Chalmers: Upgrading cellulose networks.
- 10.5.2023Stefan Spirk gave a workshop on writing scientific articles in Graz.
- 6/2022Stefan Spirk presented BreadCell at the 2nd BioNanoNet gold member webinar (recording).
- 18–19.5.2022BreadCell at the Paper & Biorefinery conference in Graz. Collaborator Robert Schennach showcased a visualization of wood pulp fibre foams, and Jana Schaubeder gave her first conference talk within the project.
- 11–12.5.2022Work package 2 met in Graz and visited the crash test facilities of the Vehicle Safety Institute at TU Graz. From left: Georg Baumann, Eliott Orzan, João Netto, Jana Schaubeder, Cecilia Geijer and Veronika Biegler.
WP2 meeting in Graz, May 2022 - 28.3.2022BreadCell’s progress in safety and sustainability featured in the BNN newsletter.
- 22.3.2022The safety and sustainability team took part in the European Commission’s 2nd stakeholder workshop on safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) criteria for chemicals and materials.
- 9–10.2.2022Consortium meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden – the first chance to meet face to face.
- 15–19.11.2021Andreas Falk and Susanne Resch (BNN) took part in the ISO TC229 Nanotechnologies working group meetings.
- 18–22.10.2021Work package 3 met for a week of experiments at the University of Vienna. In the photo: analysis of foams with a DFA100 wet foam analyzer (Krüss).
WP3 meeting in Vienna, October 2021 - 11–15.10.2021Tiina Nypelö and Stefan Spirk at the EPNOE international conference in Nantes, France.
- 4–7.10.2021Andreas Falk and Susanne Resch (BNN) at the plenary meeting of CEN TC352 Nanotechnologies, which addresses standardization around safety-by-design and nanomaterials.
- 16.9.2021Tiina Nypelö, Stefan Spirk and Wolfgang Bauer presented the project at the alumni meeting of the Graz academic papermakers association.
- 13.7.2021BreadCell featured in the BNN newsletter.
- 6.7.2021Stefan Spirk at the Nanotexnology conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 10.5.2021BreadCell featured in TU Graz news, picked up by Chemie.de, Kunststof en Rubber, Informationsdienst Wissenschaft and Konstruktionspraxis.
- 6.5.2021Chalmers news announced the start of the project.