Green Science Alliance Developed Plant, Nature Biomass Derived UV (Ultraviolet) Light Curable Hard Coat Material

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May 27, 2022, 08:34 ET

Green Science Alliance has developed nature biomass derived UV curable hard coat material.

KAWANISHI CITY, Japan, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental problems caused by population explosion such as global warming, natural resource depletion, water shortage and plastic pollution are getting severe in the world. One of the reasons for global warming is said to be carbon dioxide (CO₂). Compared to petroleum derived chemical products, nature biomass derived chemical products can be considered as carbon neutral because plant absorbs CO₂ during their growth and total CO₂ emission will be 0 after they degrade after usage. Therefore, developing biomass derived chemical products is one method to reduce CO₂ consumption in order to suppress global warming.

Nature Biomass derived UV (Ultraviolet) curable Hard Coat Material

The vision of Green Science Alliance is to offer actual cutting edge technology for sustainable, carbon neutral society. More precisely, those technologies are next generation rechargeable battery, fuel cell, CO₂ photo conversion to chemical energy (the process called artificial photosynthesis). Some of Green Science Alliance technologies are registered by the United Nation Organization (UNIDO's platform "STePP", WIPO GREEN) and they were also selected as a startup company supported by incubation programme of UNOPS GIC Japan in 2020.

Green Science Alliance is also trying to replace all the petrochemical derived chemical products with natural biomass derived one. Those are 100 % natural biomass biodegradable plastic, biomass resin, biomass coating, biomass color ink etc.

This time, they developed biomass derived UV curable hard coat material. Namely, part of raw material comes from plants such as corns, soy beans etc.

UV curable hard coat materials are coating material which can be solidified by irradiating UV light and they have been applied to the surface of liquid crystal related devices, optical films, various type of displays, smartphone, personal computer, automotive parts etc. They are environmentally friendly products because they do not have liquid evaporation problem after they are coated, compared to water, organic solvent based coating material. In addition, they can reduce the solvent consumption because all of component can be solidified under UV light irradiation without any waste solvent.

So far, UV curable hard coat materials are made of petroleum in general. This time, they developed the one with 25 – 35 % of biomass content. Green Science Alliance will keep challenging to create UV curable hard coat materials with higher biomass content. They are also planning to create biomass derived UV curable adhesive, color ink etc. in the near future.

Green Science Alliance will expand their biomass UV curable coating material business to Japan and the world market.

Contact:
Ryohei Mori
+81727598501
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SOURCE Green Science Alliance Co., Ltd.