Robert V Neher Award winner

At a special award ceremony held at the ALUMINIUM 2018 exhibition in Düsseldorf, the first ever winner of the Robert V Neher Award, a global academic competition for foil research and development, was announced.  Hiroyuki Nishikawa and Yoshiki Hashizume were presented with a cheque for €10,000 for the award-winning work: Development of super water-repellent material TOYAL LOTUS®. The winning submission detailed the development of a novel aluminium foil lidding material for yogurt packs that eliminates packed products sticking to the inner side of the lid. TOYAL Lotus® uses biomimetic coatings with a water repelling surface structure, which imitates the so-called…