Ciba/ETH Zurich Awarded for Photoinitiator Research
Ciba
and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich have won the Swiss
Chemical Society’s (www.swisschemistry.ch) prestigious Sandmeyer Prize,
reflecting the exemplary collaboration between their research teams.
The teams jointly developed environmentally compatible and cost-effective new
methods of synthesizing phosphorus-based photoinitiators. The photoinitiators
allow coatings and composites without solvents to be cured in fractions of a
second on brief exposure to light.