Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Ceramic Heat exchangers with enhanced materials properties (CEREXPRO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Energy
Destination: Energy efficiency and savings
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Switzerland,Italy,France,Germany,Austria,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENERGY-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2792942.0
EU funding (EUR): 2080717.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Heat recovery at a high temperature level is essential in industrial thermal processing. The use of ceramic materials yields higher temperatures and subsequently a higher efficiency. The present project aims to develop a new generation of ceramic heat exchangers for high temperature heat recovery with the target of significantly reducing the size and weight as well as also the price of such components by simplifying the manufacturing process and allowing a higher flexibility in the heat exchanger geometry. The use of precursors/template materials taken from the textile industries and a subsequent ceramic conversion is proposed as the main technological path for reaching the above objectives. Although this principal option is not new, there are no development efforts known, to utilize such a technological approach for industrial high temperature heat exchangers. The proposed route will lead to an increase in freedom of the geometric design at low costs for shaping. The development/refinement of the conversion process for such materials into a thermal-shock resistant gas-tight ceramic (e.g. silicon infiltrated silicon carbide) and the multi-objective optimization in terms of size, geometry, material and production costs is the major challenge of the proposed project. A complete ceramic heat exchanger component shaped by textile technologies is targeted. The combination/junction of existing robust ceramic components already applied in industrial furnaces, like silicon infiltrated SiC tubes, with compatible ceramic heat enhancement elements, built through the textile technology based manufacturing process, allows a robust construction in terms of application safety as an intermediate technology development step. At the same time a significant size reduction or increase of the heat recovery level can be achieved due to the higher heat transfer by the fine shaped and geometrically flexible heat enhancement elements.

Keywords: heat exchangers,industrial furnaces,ceramics,3d textiles,high temperature heat recovery
Bidirectional cortical communication interface (BCCI)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Systems and communication engineering
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 45.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1169400.0
EU funding (EUR): 1169400.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This project aims at establishing bidirectional communication via the cortical areas of the brain. In recent years there have been extensive research efforts for establishing an efferent pathway from the brain by means of cortical recordings to allow patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), stroke or high spinal cord lesions to interact with their environment (Birbaumer and Cohen, 2007; Wolpaw et al., 2002). As an extension this project will investigate the possibility of an afferent pathway to the brain by means of cortical stimulation, since it is ex-pected that stimulation might help to increase the information transfer rate for the efferent path-way. To achieve this there are two possible stimulation paradigms to be investigated. The first is based on the identification of optimal brain states for communication and the active maintenance of these states by stimulation. Inspired by classical conditioning, the second stimulation paradigm seeks to support and accelerate the rehabilitation process in stroke patients, as well as the learning process needed for the efferent communication pathway in ALS patients. By development of visual cortical prostheses (Schmidt et al., 1996) it became apparent that there are several fundamental problems related to cortical stimulation, which need to be solved before it is possible to evoke well-defined neural responses by stimulation - a prerequisite of the stimulation paradigms mentioned above. To overcome these problems it is envisaged to adapt stimulus parameters based on the current background brain activity by a feedback system in real time. Leveraging prior knowledge from microstimulation studies the feasibility of this approach will be evaluated by simultaneous stimulation and recording from ECoG grids and accompanied by the development of suitable algorithms.

Keywords: cortical brain stimulation,stroke,als,locked-in syndrome,adaptive stimulation,support vector machine,machine learning,ecog,bidirectional communication
Supramolecular Motive Power (SUMO)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Physical and Analytical Chemical sciences
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1742145.0
EU funding (EUR): 1742145.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Many important biological systems have the ability of transferring mechanical energy within individual molecules across distances of 1-10 nm. The mechanisms behind such energy transfer are poorly understood. Increased knowledge about them may not only explain fundamental processes in biology, but may also enable novel approaches to energy-related problems in general and new applications in supramolecular nanotechnology in particular. We propose to use physico-chemical methods to study how chemical, electrical and photochemical energy is converted into mechanical energy in supramolecular systems as models for the biological systems. We will concentrate on the energy conversion in proteins: ATP synthase, ion channel KvAP and Rad51, which each exemplifies a different solution to intra-molecular energy transfer. To enhance our mechanistic understanding, we will use model systems and methods that have previously been developed in the laboratory. We intend to build on our extensive expertise in spectroscopic methodology and exploit and develop further site-selected linear dichroism by molecular replacement (SSLD-MR) for studying structure and dynamics of the systems and their components. The studies here described constitute a new direction of research and a unique approach to addressing fundamental questions on energy conversion in biological systems. The results may give insights into important events in biology and new methodologies that enable us for the first time to study structural details of membrane proteins in membrane environment.

Keywords: optical spectroscopy,linear dichroism,molecular motor,biomolecular function,intra-molecular mechanical energy transfer
Regular Arrays of Artificial Surface-Mounted Dipolar Molecular Rotors. (DIPOLAR ROTOR ARRAY)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: Czechia
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2457600.0
EU funding (EUR): 2457600.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

We propose a feasibility demonstration of an unprecedented concept: preparation of regular two-dimensional arrays of artificial surface-mounted dipolar molecular rotors and control of their coherent motion by the application of an outside electric field. The proposal involves a highly interdisciplinary endeavor, which requires experience in synthesis (preparation of molecular rotors), surface chemistry (assembly of rotors into arrays on surfaces), surface spectroscopy and scanning microscopy (characterization of rotor arrays on surfaces), and theory (modeling of rotor dynamics). The principal investigator is presently actively working and publishing in all of these subdisciplines.

Keywords: highly interdisciplinary endeavor,which requires experience in synthesis,surface chemistry (self-assembly],surface spectroscopy,and theory (advance molecular modeling).
Infrastructure for Protein Production Platforms (PCUBE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Destination: Support to existing research infrastructures
Action type: Combination of CP & CSA
Countries involved: Switzerland,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 7859951.23
EU funding (EUR): 6599997.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The most important prerequisite and challenge in structural biology research at the atomic level by any method is the availability of sufficiently large amounts of highly purified functional proteins due to the increasing size and complexity of target proteins or protein complexes to be analyzed. Heterologous expression in bacteria, yeast, insect, or mammalian cells combined with many attempts involving different DNA constructs that result in a large variety of protein variants is instrumental to obtain sufficiently high yields. This means high-throughput methods employing robotics and specialized infrastructure are essential to efficiently reach the state of obtaining functional protein and/or crystals for X-ray structure determination. PCUBE ('protein production platform') combines existing infrastructures and know-how of leading European laboratories in bacterial, eukaryotic expression of proteins, in high-throughput crystallization and in libraries design for the effective production and crystallization of macromolecules. The program aims at offering these various state-of-the-art platforms to research groups from EC member and associated states for the efficient production of proteins for their structural studies. Each infrastructure will offer defined procedures for applying for transnational access. Scientific selection committees will give priorities to applications by scientific criteria of excellence only. Researchers from the different sites offering infrastructure are combining efforts to improve the methods in the various areas by collaborating by joint research activities. These include the improvement of the automation for synthesising DNA constructs, for parallel expression, for improved libraries, for the efficient selection of affinity molecules from libraries to particular target proteins as well as developing new methods for crystallization at the nanoliter scale.

Keywords: protein expression,high thoughput protein crystallisation,fluorescence labelling,dna- and ankyrin libraries,esprit,ank-sel,oppf,multibac,ht-x,capillary crystallisation,in situ imaging,flpal
Galileo Ready Advanced Mass MArket Receiver (GRAMMAR)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Transport (including Aeronautics)
Destination: Support to the European global satellite navigation system (Galileo) and EGNOS
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Spain,Finland
Call:  (FP7-GALILEO-2007-GSA-1, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2011-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2656414.0
EU funding (EUR): 1999581.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

Building on the success of FP6 projects, in particular the GREAT project, GRAMMAR seeks to address the mass market receiver by extending the current state-of-the-art technologies for the mass market segment. Specifically, we are addressing the following gaps identified as obstacles for producing high-quality mass market receivers: • No economic solutions for accurate dual-frequency RF and baseband hardware • No existing GPS/GALILEO receiver solutions • Poor robustness and location availability in indoor and urban environments The goals of GRAMMAR’s technical work are: • The development of a hardware prototype for a mass market receiver using a single chip dual frequency receiver and an FPGA based baseband allowing for rapid prototyping of advanced algorithms and techniques. • The identification, evaluation and simulation of enhanced algorithm concepts for next generation mass market receivers. We aim to produce functional prototypes of the receiver and its components, enabling practical testing and demonstration at the completion of the project.

Keywords: gnss galileo mass market receiver egnos
Attosecond Control of Light and Matter (ALMA)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Fundamental constituents of matter
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2008-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2250000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2250000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Attosecond light pulses are generated when an intense laser interacts with a gas target. These pulses are not only short, enabling the study of electronic processes at their natural time scale, but also coherent. The vision of this proposal is to extend temporal coherent control concepts to a completely new regime of time and energy, combining (i) ultrashort pulses (ii) broadband excitation (iii) high photon energy, allowing scientists to reach not only valence but also inner shells in atoms and molecules, and, when needed, (iv) high spatial resolution. We want to explore how elementary electronic processes in atoms, molecules and more complex systems can be controlled by using well designed sequences of attosecond pulses. The research project proposed is organized into four parts: 1. Attosecond control of light leading to controlled sequences of attosecond pulses We will develop techniques to generate sequences of attosecond pulses with a variable number of pulses and controlled carrier-envelope-phase variation between consecutive pulses. 2. Attosecond control of electronic processes in atoms and molecules We will investigate the dynamics and coherence of phenomena induced by attosecond excitation of electron wave packets in various systems and we will explore how they can be controlled by a controlled sequence of ultrashort pulses. 3. Intense attosecond sources to reach the nonlinear regime We will optimize attosecond light sources in a systematic way, including amplification of the radiation by injecting a free electron laser. This will open up the possibility to develop nonlinear measurement and control schemes. 4. Attosecond control in more complex systems, including high spatial resolution We will develop ultrafast microscopy techniques, in order to obtain meaningful temporal information in surface and solid state physics. Two directions will be explored, digital in line microscopic holography and photoemission electron microscopy.

Keywords: attosecond light pulses electronic wave packets coherent control quantum control photoionization and photoexcitation
Astrophysical Dynamos (ASTRODYN)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Universe sciences
Countries involved: Sweden
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2220000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2220000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Magnetic fields in stars, planets, accretion discs, and galaxies are believed to be the result of a dynamo process converting kinetic energy into magnetic energy. This work focuses on the solar dynamo, but dynamos in other astrophysical systems will also be addressed. In particular, direct high-resolution three-dimensional simulations are used to understand particular aspects of the solar dynamo and ultimately to simulate the solar dynamo as a whole. Phenomenological approaches will be avoided in favor of obtaining rigorous results. A major problem is catastrophic quenching, i.e. the decline of dynamo effects in inverse proportion to the magnetic Reynolds number, which is huge. Tremendous advances have been made in the last few years since the cause of catastrophic quenching in dynamos has been understood in terms of magnetic helicity evolution. The numerical tools are now in place to allow for magnetic helicity fluxes via coronal mass ejections, thus alleviating catastrophic quenching. This work employs simulations in spherical shells, augmented by Cartesian simulations in special cases. The roles of the near-surface shear layer, the tachocline, as well as pumping in the bulk of the convection zone are to be clarified. The Pencil Code will be used for most applications. The code is third order in time and sixth order in space and is used for solving the hydromagnetic equations. It is a public domain code developed by roughly 20 scientists world wide and maintained under an a central versioning system at Nordita. Automatic nightly tests of currently 30 applications ensure the integrity of the code. It is used for a wide range of applications and may include the effects of radiation, self-gravity, dust, chemistry, variable ionization, cosmic rays, in addition to those of magnetohydrodynamics. The code with its infrastructure offers a good opportunity for individuals within a broad group of people to develop new tools that may automatically be useful to others.

Keywords: dynamo theory,solar dynamo,acretion discs
Resilient large unit cell inorganic materials (RLUCIM)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Materials and Synthesis
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2291997.0
EU funding (EUR): 2291997.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A grand challenge in science is the controlled assembly of atoms and molecules into novel forms as the basis for new physical phenomena and next-generation technologies. This programme will focus on excellence in synthesis of advanced inorganic functional materials through the development of fundamental capabilities for control of structure and composition in crystalline materials with large unit cells that are resilient to the introduction of multiple functionality. The targeted synthesis of these materials is addressed by developing a smart intuition approach in which detailed chemical appreciation of the structure-composition-property relationships is focused by predictive computation. The task is structured as a computation and growth-led Theme 1, where nanodeposition tools and tightly controlled sub-structure selection focus the computational task, and a synthesis- and measurement lead Theme 2 where compositional and structural features controlling complex properties are identified to initially define target materials selection. Theme 1 initially addresses the assembly of modular thin film and bulk materials to permit the required methodology development. Theme 2 will identify a toolkit of chemical components by synthesis and measurement (encompassing both average and local structure and dynamics) that will then be analysed predictively by computation to identify specific compositions for synthesis. The developed capability will integrate computation as a focused tool in the synthesis of complex materials, rather than devising an approach capable of surveying all possible compositions. It will permit the isolation of specific structures within a focused space of components, identified by structure-property-composition analysis in bulk materials (specifically those where structural frustration is imposed by competing interactions between multiple sublattices) or by selection of modules for unit cell by unit cell assembly of thin films.

Keywords: transition metal oxides: targetted synthesis: ionic conductors: multiple property materials
Error-correcting codes and their applications in Science and Engineering (ECC SCIENG)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2008-AdG, 2008)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2013-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1959998.0
EU funding (EUR): 1959998.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Error correcting codes are combinatorial objects which have traditionally been used to enhance the transmission of data on unreliable media. They have experienced a phenomenal growth since their birth some fifty years ago. Today, everyday tasks such as listening to a CD, accessing the hard disk of an electronic device, talking on a wireless phone, or downloading files from the Internet are impossible without the use of error-correcting codes. Though traditional communication still occupies centerstage in the realm of applied coding theory, emerging applications are changing the rules of the game, and calling for a new type of coding theory capable of addressing future needs. These are not limited to physical applications, however. In fact, coding theory is an integral part of solutions offered by researchers outside traditional physical communication to solve fundamental problems of interest, such as the complexity of computation, reliable transfer of bulk data, cryptographic protocols, self correcting software, signal processing, or even computational biology.While research in the past fifty years has put traditional coding theory on firm theoretical grounds, emerging applications are in need of new tools and methods to design, analyze, and implement coding technologies capable of dealing with future needs. This is the main concern of the present proposal. To strike the right balance between length and impact we have identified five areas of research that span the full spectrum of coding theory ranging from fundamental theoretical aspects to practical applications. We set out to develop new theoretical and practical models for the design and analysis of codes, and explore new application areas hitherto untouched. A unique feature of this proposal is our choice of the tools, ranging from classical areas of algebra, combinatorics, and probability theory, to ideas and methods from theoretical computer science.

Keywords: coding theory,graph theory,iterative decoding,information theory,algebraic complexity theory