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A new equation of state for solutes in high-temperature fluids (FLUIDEQ)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-08-01
End date: 2015-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 184709.4
EU funding (EUR): 184709.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Hot aqueous fluids are key agents in geological transport processes in the Earth’s crust, redistributing geothermal heat as well as dissolved components. Thereby, they become alternative energy resources, create valuable mineral deposit and fundamentally control the composition of the oceans. To quantitatively understand these geochemical processes requires an accurate method to evaluate the thermodynamic properties of the fluids including their dissolved components (solutes), over wide ranges of temperature, pressure and fluid density from liquid- to vapor-like. Solute thermodynamics is commonly modeled using the Helgeson-Kirkham-Flowers (HKF) equation of state, but this empirical model becomes unreliable in the vicinity of the critical point of water. This limitation restricts modeling hydrothermal systems, where the importance of near-critical and low-density fluids in heat and mass transfer is increasingly recognized. The goal of this study is to pioneer a new equation of state describing the standard state properties of aqueous solutes over wide ranges of pressure and temperature, valid for low- to high-density fluids including near-critical conditions. This study will use recent advances in the theory of solute thermodynamics in compressible fluids to derive the mathematical form of the equation of state, and combine these results with recently emerging experimental data for low-density fluids at high temperature. Molecular simulations provide atomic-scale insights into solute-solvent interactions and will be used to complement the experimental constraints. The new model will improve our ability to understand high temperature fluid-rock interactions and thus promote multi-disciplinary research at the nexus of hydrothermal geochemistry, economic geology, geothermal energy and chemical engineering.

Keywords: v201 geochemistry - crystal chemistry - isotope geochemistry - thermodynamics,v201 mineralogy - petrology - igneous petrology - metamorphic petrology,hydrothermal fluids,aqueous solutes,critical point
Ontology driven analysis of nominal systematic polysemy in WordNet (ODASP)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-05-02
End date: 2015-05-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 179739.6
EU funding (EUR): 179739.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Our societies increasingly depend on huge amounts of textual data stored in large repositories, e.g. on the Web, in government archives, etc. Developing ways of bringing order to, and handling, this unstructured information is thus a major challenge of our times. Some of the most promising approaches for enabling computers to represent the required conceptual information appear to be ontology based ones. It is the precise path taken by this project, in application to lexical databases and WordNet in particular. The number of applications of WordNet (in natural language processing, knowledge management, and information systems) is rapidly growing despite its well-known defects. Among these flaws, the project focuses on the particular issue of nominal systematic polysemy. The strongly hierarchical structure of - WordNet, as of most lexical ontologies, cannot presently cope with this kind of ambiguity, as it involves orthogonal non-taxonomic relations between categories. As a result, systematic polysemy is treated in a rather ad hoc way in WordNet, compensating for missing orthogonal relations either by enumerating meanings as if disconnected, or by introducing problematic multiple inheritence. This lack of methodical treatment produces notorious incoherences and compromises the results of applications using WordNet. The aim of this fellowship is to address these issues in an ontology driven approach, showing that systematic polysemy results from orthogonal dependence relations between the denoted entities. Drawing on philosophy and computational linguistics and ontology, our objective is to map patterns of nominal systematic polysemy into patterns of dependence.

Keywords: knowledge engineering,ontology,semantics,lexical semantics,systematic polysemy,computational linguistics,wordnet,metaphysics,dependence
New concepts in ceramic conducting oxides for improved energy storage devices (CONFIES)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 221606.4
EU funding (EUR): 221606.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nowadays, there is an imperative aim to decrease the fossil fuel dependency and to promote an environmentally-friendly energy economy what will have great benefits in the society needs. For this reason, the implementation of green energy sources (solar, wind, geothermal…) has been boosted in the last years. However, the exploitation of these sources requires the support of energy storage systems to compensate their intermittent power generation. It is as important, however, to develop, at the same pace, technologies that can store this energy in portable form. Two main electrochemical systems for chemical storage are the focus of this work. On the one hand, high energy density secondary batteries (Li/Na ion and lithium- air batteries) and on the other hand, high temperature steam electrolysis (SOE) systems reversibly used for zero emission hydrogen production (energy storage) or energy production as a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) as a function of the energy demand. Large-scale commercialization of these devices urgently needs the design and implementation of novel materials with improved properties and low cost; a complete breakthrough in materials science. Ceramic materials can be obtained with a wide variety of stoichiometries, crystal structures and therefore, electrochemical properties with applicability in both proposed devices. The aim of this project is to explore beyond the conventional materials used in the last decades (mainly perovskite-and fluorite-related materials) trying to investigate and identify new networks of open crystal structures for highly conducting ceramics: mixed ionic-electronic conductor electrodes and pure ionic electrolytes (proton, oxygen and/or ion-alkaline). The study of the relationships between the chemistry, structure and electrical properties will be used to determine the factors governing the transport properties allowing the design of the desired properties in the materials.

Keywords: c126 new materials,c120 solid state materials,c119 structural properties of materials,c137 characterization methods of materials,g306 energy systems,c109 electrochemistry
Dynamics in polymer brush-nanoparticle systems (POLYBRUSH)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-02
End date: 2015-04-01
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 161968.8
EU funding (EUR): 161968.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Polymer brushes are long polymer chains tethered to a surface by one end. They have applications in chemistry, engineering, medicine, microelectronics, etc. Many of these applications involve interactions between the brush and nanoparticles which are near or within the brush (for instance, when used to arrest toxic substances or to arrange nanoparticles in the patterned surface). Structure of these composite brush-nanoparticle systems has been largely studied but only a few works have been carried out concerning their dynamics. To be able to design the systems for the applications efficiently, a good understanding of their dynamics is essential. This project aims to provide a comprehensive description of the dynamic behaviour of brush-nanoparticle systems as a function of key parameters such as nanoparticle size, concentration, and penetration depth, polymer chain molecular weight, and grafting density. Gold nanoparticles within PDMAEMA brushes will be used as model systems and the different samples characterized using small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis), atomic force microscopy (AFM), ellipsometry, x-ray reflectometry (XRR), and neutron reflectometry (NR). Thereafter, long- and short-time dynamics of brush and nanoparticles will be measured using the more recently developed techniques of evanescent wave dynamic light scattering (EWDLS), resonance enhanced dynamic light scattering (REDLS), and neutron spin echo under grazing incidence (GINSE). This will allow to gain insight into particle-polymer brush interactions which will foster development of models that can be used to optimize current applications or even originate new ones.

Keywords: p215 soft condensed matter,p306 surface science,p321 surface physics,p304 spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques,c122 thin films,c128 nanomaterials
Direct Alkylation of Saturated Cyclic Amines via catalytic C-H Functionalization. (DASCA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 169800.0
EU funding (EUR): 169800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Direct conversion of C-H into C-C bonds is arguably indispensable in modern organic chemistry, as it allows for obtaining target compounds which are otherwise only accessible via lengthy procedures involving multi-step synthesis. Catalytic C-H functionalization is the most attractive approach to achieve this goal, as it does not require stoichiometric amounts of activating reagent. This research proposal aims to develop direct transition metal-catalyzed functionalizations of C(sp3)–H bonds in saturated nitrogen-based heterocycles, with a particular focus on compatibility with a very broad range of functional groups, regioselectivity and stereoselectivity. Towards this goal, insertion reactions with substituted alkenes featuring a variety of functional groups will be explored. The development of such a technology offers an important contribution to novel, improved and more sustainable synthetic pathways and is expected to be highly warranted for drug discovery purposes.

Keywords: c112 catalysis,c141 organic chemistry,c-h activation,homogeneous catalysis,amines,transition metals
Cellular protein damage control: interactomic analyses of MOAG-4 in C. elegans (AGGREGATION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 175974.6
EU funding (EUR): 175974.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Several age-related neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, are characterized by the formation of pathogenic proteins aggregates in the brain. Although some regulators have been identified, how aggregates form during aging is poorly understood. Recently, a modifier of aggregation, MOAG-4, was identified as a positive regulator of aggregation in C. elegans models for neurodegenerative diseases. The role of MOAG-4 is evolutionarily conserved in the human orthologs SERF1A and SERF2. MOAG-4/SERF appears to regulate age-related proteotoxicity through a previously unexplored pathway. Therefore, how this regulator works and in which pathway it acts needs to be established. In this proposal I focus on identifying proteins that physically interact and cooperate with MOAG-4 to drive protein aggregation. To this end, I will express in worms that lack MOAG-4 a tagged version of MOAG-4 to co-purify MOAG-4 interacting proteins. I will use different proteomic approaches to identify putative substrates and proteins that may form functional complexes with MOAG-4. These interactions will be confirmed in vitro and in vivo. In addition, I will study the proteotoxicity phenotype in mutant worms that are impaired in the expression of these proteins. I will also analyze the protein aggregation process by monitoring aggregate formation in a test tube with purified proteins. The results of this project will reveal the mechanism by which MOAG-4 acts, and this will contribute to our understanding of how cells cope with toxic, aggregation-prone proteins during aging. Furthermore, new options will be opened for the development of therapeutic strategies to treat human neurodegenerative diseases.

Keywords: proteomics,interactome,neurodegenerative diseases,c. elegans,ageing,protein aggregation
Spectra of random matrices, graphs and groups (SPECTRA)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Hungary
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-07-15
End date: 2015-07-14
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 190113.6
EU funding (EUR): 190113.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal is to understand the connections between the geometric structure of sparse (random) matrices and graphs and their spectra. Specifically, I would like to deepen the connections between three distinct research areas, each having their own set of difficult problems and open questions. The first is the study of random matrices with independent entries, started in the statistics community in the 1920s, and further developed by Wigner, Dyson and others in the 1950s and 60s; many of the results have been extended to more sparse matrices recently. A related question, not yet accessible through the random matrix machinery, is what does the top eigenvalue of a random regular graph of bounded degree look like? The second area of group theory related to the so-called Atiyah question/conjecture. What can the atoms in the spectrum in a vertex-transitive graph look like? How does this depend on the local structure of the graph and its group of automorphisms? The third is the study of random Schroedinger operators, originated with Anderson in the 1980s. Given a vertex-transitive graph, such as Z^d or a regular tree, how does the spectrum change when random perturbations are added? Most interesting and difficult is the case when these perturbations are discrete, e.g. adding a loop at each vertex independently at random. Most questions about these models are still open, including localization in higher dimensions and local eigenvalue statistics in any dimension. The interplay between these areas has already been fruitful, and gave rise to new ideas and concepts. Specifically, techniques from random Schroedinger operators have been useful in understanding spectra of lamplighter groups, the Novikov-Shubin invariant and the limiting spectra of random Toeplitz matrices. The limiting operator formalism used in understanding the local eigenvalue statistics of random matrices also helped with critical 1-dimensional random Schroedinger operators.

Keywords: random matrices,spectrum,random graphs,eigenvalues,universality
Aerodynamic Shape Optimization by Physics-Based Surrogates (ASOPBS)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Iceland
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-03-01
End date: 2015-02-28
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 145282.2
EU funding (EUR): 145282.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of the research project is to develop computationally efficient and robust procedures and algorithms for aerodynamic shape optimization using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulators that would go beyond the current state of the art and its limitations. The developed methodology will handle both two-dimensional and three dimensional aerodynamic/hydrodynamic surfaces, such as airfoils, wings, wing/fuselage, wing/fuselage/nacelle/pylon, turbomachinery blades, and submersibles. The critical task is to obtain satisfactory designs at a reasonable computational cost (in terms of the number of high-fidelity CFD simulations). To achieve the objective physics based surrogate optimization technique that combines the speed of the low-fidelity models with the accuracy of the CPU-intensive high-fidelity ones will be adopted. A special emphasis will be on finding ways to fully employ the embedded knowledge within the physics-bases surrogates to achieve a low computational cost of the overall design optimization. In particular, this will involve the development of new methodologies for generating cheap and robust low-fidelity models, and, equally important, reliable and accurate response correction techniques for aerodynamic responses. The developed procedures will be implemented in a software package for automated aerodynamic design . The programming environment used in the project is Matlab. The aerodynamic design procedures, as well as their software implementation, will be subjected to extensive numerical verification using a set of benchmark problems involving 2D and 3D cases for subsonic and transonic conditions. The goal will be to verify the ability of the procedures and algorithms to yield satisfactory and feasible designs at low computational cost. The performance of our algorithms will be compared to state-of-the-art methodologies described in literature. Then the methodologies will be applied to relevant industry design problems.

Keywords: areodynamic,surrogate based optimization,numerical optimization,space mapping
Nano Art Research Tool (NANOART)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Intra-European Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF, 2012)
Start date: 2014-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166336.2
EU funding (EUR): 166336.2
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

“Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of colour” (Ludwig Wittgenstein in Philosophical Remarks, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984). This interdisciplinary project, combining Conservation Science, Nanotechnology, Restoration and Art History, aims to confront this problem regarding the binders applied in paintings, sculptures and illuminated manuscripts, which have a particularly diverse colour palette, rich in material terms as well as in symbolic and aesthetic values. Currently, the characterization of artwork binders (egg yolk, glair, gums and oils) requires microsampling combined with powerful but expensive techniques performed by specialized personnel. Despite all the advantages that nanotechnology has brought to molecular diagnostics and the healthcare industry in the recent years, the field of artwork preservation and conservation has not yet greatly benefited from nanobiosensing tools. The NANOART project will develop a nanobiosensor for the successful detection and identification of the biomolecules present in the paints of ancient artworks. This will lead to the development of a new and inexpensive “nanokit” based on gold nanoparticles which will allow to identify at point-of-care the nature of binders used in different artworks with an enhanced sensitivity. The gold nanoparticles will be used as a reporting agent enabling a colorimetric identification of different biomarkers that may be present in nanosamples taken from artworks, providing a unique opportunity to immediately explore the origin of the binders at the naked eye. The NANOART kit will hopefully be made available to conservation scientists from around the world, facilitating the knowledge over historical productions and help worldwide museums, conservation and restoration art studios and laboratories to plan the best conservation and preventive strategies for our worldwide Cultural Heritage.

Keywords: conservation,restoration,nanotechnology,binders,nanokit,cultural heritage,polyssacharides,proteins,gold nanoparticles,biomarker,nanobiosensor,antibodies,molecular biology
Evolution equations for composite operators and AdS/CFT integrability (IEET2)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF, 2012)
Start date: 2013-06-01
End date: 2015-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 223778.4
EU funding (EUR): 223778.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Quantum field theory gives the excellent description for the electromagnetic, weak and strong fundamental interactions by means of perturbative expansion in the coupling constant. It allows to obtain results, which can be compared with experiments. In some cases the large logarithms are appeared in perturbative calculations and they should be sum exactly, i.e. in all orders of perturbative theory. Arising evolution equations are widely used for the theoretical description of the high energy scattering processes, which extensively studied at LHC and other experiments at colliders. During forty years of investigations a lot of remarkable properties related with these evolution equations were found. In particular, as the most important, the connection between high-energy scattering and the exactly solvable two-dimensional field-theoretical models was discovered. The similar integrability was discovered under investigation of composite operators in the planar limit of the famous AdS/CFT-correspondence. In this project we are going to extend the investigations of integrability for other evolution equations in the framework of planar gauge/string duality and beyond planar limit within the collaboration between Applicant as expert in considered evolution equations and the Research Group from Host Institute as experts in AdS/CFT integrability. We shall calculate the higher-loop anomalous dimensions of composite operators and study their properties. Obtained results will used for the test of available and the development of new methods.

Keywords: p101 fundamental interactions and fields,p102 particle physics,m113 mathematical physics,evolution equations,composite operators,anomalous dimension,ads/cft correspondence,integrability