The research activities at polyLab are either directly commissioned by companies or performed in the framework of projects funded by public research agencies and the European Union, but always in collaboration with industrial organizations.
Main research activities include:

• Materials and technologies for packaging industry
 
• Biocompatible, bioactive and biodegradable materials
 
• Processing of plastic materials and elastomers
 
• Materials and technologies for textile industry
• Materials and technologies for leather tanning industry
  
• Processing and recycling of industrial waste products

The scientific expertise of the researchers affiliated to polyLab include the following themes:

• Development of new materials
• Material transformation and processing
• Nanotechnologies
• Simulation of polymeric systems
• (Non-)Linear optical properties
• Beam and probe microscopy
• Microwave techniques for material processing
• Dynamical, mechanical, rheological and thermodynamical properties
• Electric, dielectric and magnetic properties
• (Non-)Linear spectroscopical analysis(FTIR, NMR, ESR, Raman)

A few recent results are presented in the scientific Highlights section.