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Engineering Hybrid Metal Nitrides/Carbon-Atom Wire Novel Materials for high-performance Electrochemical Energy Storage (ENHANCER)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Italy
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 188590.08
EU funding (EUR): 188590.08
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

An escalated demand and subsequent high consumption of energy in the coming decades directed toward the development of a suitable energy storage device. Supercapacitor, also known as Electrochemical capacitor, technology steps forward as a promising solution to unlock the capacity of renewable energy exploration. However, the major drawback of supercapacitors is the limited energy density which necessitates further research and development. The performances and potential of supercapacitor technology strongly lies in the construction of novel electrode materials and its physico-chemical properties. Hence, the focus of current project titled ENHANCER is committed towards ENgineering a Hybrid nANostructures for aqueous asymmetric electroChEmical capacitoR, addressing a key question in today’s energy technology: How quickly can we leapfrog in the supercapacitor technology so as to replace the current battery technology? ENHANCER aims to - (i) develop an adaptable strategy for designing a metal nitrides/carbon-atomic wires in a single run by a single-deposition unit, (ii) establish structure-property-performance relationship, and (ii) fabricate aqueous-based solid-state asymmetric supercapacitor device with energy density and power density higher than the existing technology. The novel strategy makes ENHANCER multidisciplinary involving a strong combination of materials science, plasma physics, electrochemistry and energy technology. This proposal includes two-way transfer of knowledge between candidate and host. Results have the potential to increase the competitiveness of energy storage technologies and provide huge scope for the fundamental insights on the nanomaterials based research. The outcome of the research during the fellowship will pave the way to open new perspectives of newly designed electrode materials for catalysis, optoelectronic and other energy applications. The project is in line with the sustainable development goal of European union.

Keywords: nanocarbon,metal nitrides,nanostructures,plasma,doping,supercapacitor,energy storage
Single Polaron Tracking (SPOT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2024-COG, 2024)
Start date: 2026-01-01
End date: 2030-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Polarons are quasiparticles that form in ionic lattices due to the coupling of excess electrons or holes with lattice vibrations. This leads to a spatial confinement of the charge carrier or even its complete localization, which presents a challenge for theoretical modelling. Polarons play a central role in many materials properties, such as electrical transport, optical properties, surface reactivity, or magnetoresistance, and are always investigated indirectly through such macroscopic characteristics. Here, I propose to develop a methodology for real-space experimental observation of single polarons, based on detecting their electrostatic force by noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy (nc-AFM). I will track localized polarons in the crystal lattice, observe their thermally activated hopping, interaction with light, electric and magnetic field, and coupling to lattice defects. This will provide the missing link between the atomic-scale polaron dynamics and macroscopic materials properties. The nc-AFM represents an excellent tool for watching and explaining the fundamental mechanisms involved in polaron kinetics, yet the method has a limited time resolution. I propose overcoming this limitation by combining nc-AFM with excitation by light, aiming for time resolution of 10-6 to 10-9 s, while maintaining the atomic resolution in real space through plasmonic effects at the tip apex. This will allow investigation of highly mobile polarons that stand behind complex physical phenomena, resolve their mechanisms of charge transport, the nature of their excited and transition states, as well as polaron-polaron interactions. If successful, the result of this project will provide a big leap towards understanding the physics of charge carriers in ionic lattices, open a path towards explaining unresolved polaron-based phenomena, and possibly reveal novel materials properties.

Keywords: polarons,stm,afm
Twinning in Environmental Data and Dynamical Systems Modelling for Latvia (TED4LAT)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Latvia,Italy,France
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1194500.0
EU funding (EUR): 1194500.0
Participants: 6
Project status: SIGNED

TED4LAT is a Coordination and Support Action proposal targeting the overarching objective of the call HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03-01: Twinning to reach high international standards in research and innovation in Latvia. It will be implemented by twinning two prominent research institutions in France, Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, and in Italy, Politecnico di Torino, with three widening Latvian Universities (Liepaja University, Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, and Riga Technical University). The Baltic Open Solutions Center, a Latvian SME, joins the endeavor as a living-lab application partner. Latvian universities barely reach international standards in strategic areas such as the foundation and last-generation ICT science and technology like Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Dynamic Systems Modeling. In these sectors, Latvia is lagging behind compared to other European countries and aims at bridging the knowledge gap. To achieve the objectives, a research component of the work plan aims at targeting universities, incubators, research centers, NCPs. An intertwined set of Communication and Support activities aim at reaching the broadest community of junior and senior researchers, Twinning project’s teams and other EC initiatives, Latvian policy and decision makers. A common research agenda will address scientific challenges related to the use of satellite data for environmental applications, as accompanying measures, computational infrastructure upgrades, doctoral schools, workshops, exchange visits and seminars will be implemented. The outcomes will be critically important to increase the ability and capacity of Latvian universities to carry out large-scale and high-quality research in the aforementioned domains. Capacity building will result in the emergence of Latvian universities' excellence for proactively cooperating in EU research programmes over the coming decade.

Keywords: regional sustainability,innovation and knowledge transfer,environmental data science
Self HealINg soft materials for susTainable prOducts (SHINTO)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Transition
Destination: Open to supporting projects in all areas of science, technology,...
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Belgium
Call: EIC Transition Open 2021 (HORIZON-EIC-2021-TRANSITIONOPEN-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-10-01
End date: 2025-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2488500.0
EU funding (EUR): 2488500.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The SHINTO project aims to disrupt the soft robotics market by creating a new market for self-healing structural components, introducing autonomous damage detection and healing in intelligent soft robots. The current field is driven by a high adoption of soft grippers that ensure safe operation for collaborative robots in manufacturing and delicate manipulation in agrifood and warehousing. However, these expensive and mostly non-recyclable soft robots have limited lifetimes due to their vulnerability to damage. In symbiosis, VUB-research groups FYSC and Brubotics have been building soft robots out of self-healing materials that fully recover functional material properties and resulting performances after healing incurred damage. This extends the robots service lifetime and raises their reliability and sustainability, which in combination with their inherent recyclability contributes to economic benefits and the EU Green Deal. In SHINTO, technological breakthroughs will mature beyond lab demonstrators over pilot scale towards commercial viability through synergistic advances in (patented) self-healing polymers, manufacturing, application validation and business development. The team combines profound knowledge of materials and robotics scientists with business experts to establish a new deep tech company, marketing next generation self-healing grippers as semi-finished goods. The beach-head strategy targets existing soft robotics markets based on confirmed product-market fits. Existing feedback loops with key industrial partners, field tests and life cycle assessment allow to cocreate the required quality and TRL for business transition, while limiting business risk to a niche market. Parallel, continuous market analysis enables updating/expanding requirements and extending to broader (non-)robotic markets. The soft robotics market is expected to grow at 40%/y to $6.3B by 2027, while market fits beyond this niche are identified, e.g. the tire market at $174B in 2028.

Keywords: self healing materials,soft robotics,actuators,sensors,control,processing techniques
Greek Heritage in European Culture and Identity (GrECI)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Cyprus,Norway,France
Call: Twinning (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03, 2021)
Start date: 2023-01-01
End date: 2025-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1494375.0
EU funding (EUR): 1494375.0
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

The heritage of ancient Greece is commonly acclaimed as a ‘pillar’ of common European culture and identity. The complex historical processes of cultural reception and appropriation that shaped this notion are, however, still hardly understood. The project ‘Greek Heritage in European Culture and Identity’ (GrECI) explores a key phase in this process: the reception and appropriation of ancient Greek culture in early modern Europe (15th-17th century), from the so-called ‘rediscovery’ of Greek language and literature to their full incorporation in the European cultural landscape. It aims at creating the interdisciplinary and international framework required to address this complex historical subject and its implications for present-day ideas of European identity. To achieve this, three Twinning Partners from Cyprus (University of Cyprus), Norway (University of Oslo), and France (University of Franche-Comté) join forces in a unique combination of scholarly strengths and academic potential. Together they unite several vibrant disciplines that are pivotal to understanding early modern Hellenism but are seldom joined to shed light on the subject: the history of the book and material heritage studies, language and literature studies, and intellectual history (Reformation studies) with a shared emphasis on the reception and appropriation of Greek heritage in early modern Europe. By a carefully designed research and excellence programme, GrECI will both cement UCY’s international profile in the field of early modern history and make UCY, together with its partners, leading research milieus in the emerging but still fragmented field of early modern Hellenism.

Keywords: hellenism,european identity,european past cultural identity
Fluorescent Optical Concentration of Uncollimated Sunlight (FOCUS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Synthetic Chemistry and Materials
Panel description: New materials and new synthetic approaches, structure -properties relations, solid state chemistry, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS (ERC-2021-COG, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-01
End date: 2027-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2998125.0
EU funding (EUR): 2998125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

There is an urgent need to use solar energy to produce electricity, fuels and chemicals. However, the highly diffuse nature of sunlight in angle, wavelength and space complicate its high-efficiency, low-cost and scalable conversion. FOCUS will develop thin-films that concentrate sunlight in these three aspects, creating collimated, monochromatic, high-intensity beams that can provide advantages for photovoltaics and photocatalysis. The underlying concept is a radically different design for a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC). Conventional LSCs use an emitter-doped plastic or glass sheet as a waveguide, concentrating direct and diffuse sunlight via total internal reflection of fluorescence. The losses associated with reabsorption, emission into the waveguide escape cone and Stokes shift have limited LSC efficiency to 7%. I will eliminate the waveguide completely and replace it with nanophotonic lenses, solving the longstanding problems with LSCs. The key challenges for successful implementation are addressed in three work packages. Nanophotonic design (WP1) will give FOCUS foils that absorb broadband sunlight from all angles, funnel the excitons to lower bandgap nanoscale emitters and concentrate the collimated fluorescence outside of the film. Material learning (WP2) and reciprocity-inspired photosynthesis will use the desired emission pattern to train a material to emit from self-optimized positions, leading to FOCUS foils that learn the desired optical output. Ultrafast 3D nanoprinter (WP3) development will lead to a microscope that synthesizes emitters directly within a solid-state host, tracks their performance (quantum yield, angular emission pattern) in real-time and watches excited carriers relax into directionally emitting states. My track record in nanophotonic solar cells and directional emission combined with my network of leading collaborators put me in an excellent position to achieve these goals.

Keywords: luminescent solar concentrators,nanophotovoltaics,nanoscale solar cells,halide perovskites
Single item identification for forest production, protection and management (SINTETIC)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Slovenia,Romania,Ireland,France,Sweden,Finland,Belgium
Call: Harnessing the digital revolution in the forest-based sector (HORIZON-CL6-2022-CIRCBIO-02-two-stage, 2022)
Start date: 2023-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8853625.0
EU funding (EUR): 7547650.0
Participants: 22
Project status: SIGNED

The core objective of SINTETIC is to set up and demonstrate a traceability system for trees, logs and boards based on ICT through a central Geodatabase covering all the forest-based value chain. This faces the 3 main drawbacks of the ICTs in the forestry sector: -Deployed only in areas with mature timber market (North/Central EU vs. South EU). -Currently cannot be used during the whole value chain, causing several losses. -A reliable tool for tracing the origin of forest product is missing, still allowing illegal practices. Along with the core objective, the SINTETIC proposal will pursuit: SOBJ1: To achieve a higher value recovery of timber assortments (+10%). SOBJ2: To increase the overall efficiency of the timber supply chain. SOBJ3: To provide a greater competitive advantage of the EU forest industry (yield of high value sawnwood products from 20% to 22%). SOBJ4: To increase of the EU forested area under active management (aggregation of 12.000 ha fragmented properties). SOBJ5: To increase both the timber value, the resilience and the ecosystem services provided. SOBJ6: To tackle illegal logging and the related timber trade (-15%). SOBJ7: To facilitate a homogeneous and widespread uptake of the ICTs in the forest sector. The main expected results are: RES1: Manual marking and quality assessment (traceability system). RES2: Smartphone APP for motormanual operations. RES3: Processor head prototype. RES4: Harvester LiDAR. RES5: Sawmill sensors and traceability of sawnwood. RES6: Earth observation illegal logging alert service. RES7: Forest ownership aggregation platform. To make all this possible, SINTETIC will develop a geodatabase with a set of data providers interconnected by the traceability system. It'll provide: 1) Multi-platform data acquisition for the whole supply chain. 2) Data transmission with sesecured digital tools and physical IDs on timber products. 3) Data storage, analysis and distribution for the generation of further services.

Keywords: forest products traceability
Deorbiting and collision avoidance technologies for scalable sustainable space access (Aurora Plasma Brake (APB))

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Accelerator
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: Finland
Call: EIC Accelerator Challenge: Technologies for Open Strategic Autonomy (HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2025-04-30
Duration (months): 27.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3409375.0
EU funding (EUR): 2386562.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Aurora Propulsion Tech supplies satellite manufacturers with reliable solutions for propulsion, attitude & orbit control, collision avoidance & end-of-life deorbiting. We aim to enable effective satellite (1-500 kg) missions ensuring that they are carried out safely in low Earth orbit regions and don’t result in space debris. In this EIC Accelerator project, we focus on the industrialization of Aurora Plasma Brake (APB)—a novel patented zero propellant microtether-based solution for quick & safe deorbiting of SmallSats. APB can be complemented by our existing products such as water-based resistojet thrusters ARM (to simplify deployment) & ARM derivatives (to provide collision avoidance capabilities). Our technology is designed for cost-effective, large-scale production to meet the demands of the growing New Space industry (with 3,500+ satellites to be launched in 2027) & remove the barriers for new entrants. It is also aligned with the upcoming new regulation on sustainable space use.

Keywords: thruster,smallsats,cubesats,satellites,deorbiting,propulsion,plasma brake,constellation
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND ADVANCED MATERIALS COMPETENCE CENTRE IN CYPRUS (AM2C3)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Improved access to Excellence
Destination: Improved access to Excellence
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Cyprus,Spain,Norway,Switzerland
Call: Twinning Bottom-Up (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02, 2023)
Start date: 2024-10-01
End date: 2027-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1490675.01
EU funding (EUR): 1490675.01
Participants: 4
Project status: SIGNED

Advancing capabilities and elevating the profile of the University of Cyprus (UCY) through the establishment of an Additive Manufacturing and Advanced Materials Competence Centre in Cyprus (AM2C3), will increase the potential for excellence-in-research and promote the growth of the knowledge-economy in a widening country. Additive manufacturing is transforming and decentralizing the aerospace industry sector, which is described by low-volume yet high-value applications. The transformation is accommodated by the development of advanced materials and designs, especially Al-metal matrix composites with superior specific strength. Twinning of the UCY with three internationally-leading partners will facilitate knowledge-transfer that focuses on processing methodologies and characterization techniques of AM consolidated Al-based MMCs. Advanced partners IMDEA (Spain), SINTEF (Norway), and EMPA (Switzerland) will participate in training activities directed towards UCY researchers and host staff exchanges aimed to build-up new competencies. Such activities will guarantee access to sophisticated equipment and infrastructure, but also enhance research output. To further stimulate excellence-in-research and maximize impact, the centre will encompass a variety of networking activities to reach an audience in academia, industry, the general public, and policy makers. In more detail, these activities include round table discussions with policy makers, working groups with industry stakeholders, international symposium with experts of the scientific community, and summer schools for students. In general terms, this multidimensional approach aims to sustainably integrate and anchor the competence centre on a local and international level, and in turn establish an exploitation framework of intellectual property. The adoption of technical know-how in AM technologies and the project supportnetwork will thereby become the foundation for future activities of AM2C3.

Keywords: additive manufacturing al alloys laser powder bed fusion