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Performance and qualification tests of lubrication system equipment (LUBEST)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Belgium
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2009-02, 2009)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2015-06-30
Duration (months): 51.0
Total project cost (EUR): 239560.8
EU funding (EUR): 179640.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

ULB-ATM will adapt its current test benches for lubrication equipment to the new requirements imposed by the CROR application. The lubrication equipment to be tested are lubrication pumping units (one at a time or several together), oil tanks, heat exchangers and various associated components as filters, valves and other accessories like sensors or monitoring devices. All tests will be performed with the double objective of validating the design of the lubrication components as well as characterizing their performance with the qualification requirements in mind. ULB-ATM has already obtained the qualification of its test benches from Techspace Aero for his "clean oil" lubrication test bench and his "polluted oil" test bench.

Keywords: lubrication,cror,tests,qualification
Multiscale dynamics of turbulent flows (MULTIFLOW)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Products and process engineering
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-02-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2200000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2200000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Turbulence is a fundamental unsolved problem, at whose core are the multiscale processes that transfer, for example, energy across the inertial range of scales, or momentum across wall-bounded shear flows. Turbulence is also key to applications, from industrial design and energy generation to climate dynamics, where the worst uncertainties are often due to its modelling. Its practical computation and control have been hindered by empirical models and boundary conditions, in large part because of insufficient understanding of the multiscale transfer just mentioned. Direct simulations, without approximation, are expensive, but the past few years have seen the appearance of larger computers and reasonably-priced disks that allow, for the first time, the compilation of time-resolved data sets of canonical turbulent flows with high enough Reynolds numbers to be truly multiscale, as well as the possibility of performing conceptual experiments on them. The premise of this proposal is that those new capabilities should allow us to elucidate, once and for all, the physics underlying the multiscale transfer processes in turbulence in the next five years, especially in shear flows near walls. That will allow the formulation of more realistic engineering models, but the immediate goal of the proposal is to answer the fundamental questions that have resisted two centuries of attack by physicists and engineers. An important part of the work will involve adapting simulation codes to the new computer architectures expected in the next few years. Neither large-scale computing nor data mining are trivial activities, but our group has specialised in both during the past 20 years, particularly for the study of turbulence.

Keywords: turbulence
Light-In, Light-Out: Chemistry for sustainable energy technologies (LILO)

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: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-01-01
End date: 2015-12-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2399440.0
EU funding (EUR): 2399440.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The project is concerned with a coordinated approach to the development of of novel chemical strategies for light harvesting by photovoltaic cells and light generation using light emitting electrochemical cells. Both technologies have proof of principle results from the PIs own laboratory and others world-wide. The bulk of efficient dye sensitized solar cells rely on transition metal complexes as the photoactive component as the majority of traditional organic dyes do not possess long term stability under the operating conditions of the devices. LECs based upon transition metal complexes have been shown to possess lifetimes sufficiently long and efficiencies sufficiently high to become a viable alternative technology to OLEDs in the near future. The disadvantages of state of the art devices for both technologies is that they are based upon second or third row transition metal complexes. Although these elements are expensive, the principle difficulties arise from their low abundance, which creates significant issues of sustainability if the technology is to be adopted. The aim of this project is three-fold. Firstly, to further optimise the individual technologies using conventional transition metal complexes, with increases in efficiency leading to lower metal requirements. Secondly, to explore the periodic table for metal-containing luminophores based on first row transition metals, with an emphasis upon copper and zinc containing species. The final aspect is related to the utilization of solar derived electrons for water splitting reactions, allowing the generation of hydrogen and/or reaction products of hydrogen with organic species. This latter aspect is related to the mid-term requirement for liquid fuels, regardless of the primary fuel sources utilized. The program will involve design and synthesis of new materials, device construction and evaluation (in-house and with existing academic and industrial partners) and iterative refinement of structures

Keywords: dye sensitized solar cell,light emitting electrochemical cell,water splitting
Acceleration in Extreme Shocks: from the microphysics to laboratory and astrophysics scenarios (ACCELERATES)

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: Portugal
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 62.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1588800.0
EU funding (EUR): 1588800.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

What is the origin of cosmic rays, what are the dominant acceleration mechanisms in relativistic shocks, how do cosmic rays self-consistently influence the shock dynamics, how are relativistic collisionless shocks formed are longstanding scientific questions, closely tied to extreme plasma physics processes, and where a close interplay between the micro-instabilities and the global dynamics is critical. Relativistic shocks are closely connected with the propagation of intense streams of particles pervasive in many astrophysical scenarios. The possibility of exciting shocks in the laboratory will also be available very soon with multi-PW lasers or intense relativistic particle beams. Computational modeling is now established as a prominent research tool, by enabling the fully kinetic modeling of these systems for the first time. With the fast paced developments in high performance computing, the time is ripe for a focused research programme on simulation-based studies of relativistic shocks. This proposal therefore focuses on using self-consistent ab initio massively parallel simulations to study the physics of relativistic shocks, bridging the gap between the multidimensional microphysics of shock onset, formation, and propagation and the global system dynamics. Particular focus will be given to the shock acceleration mechanisms and the radiation signatures of the various physical processes, with the goal of solving some of the central questions in plasma/relativistic phenomena in astrophysics and in the laboratory, and opening new avenues between theoretical/massive computational studies, laboratory experiments and astrophysical observations.

Keywords: extreme plasma physics,relativistic shocks,laboratory and plasma astrophysics,particle-in-cell,simulations,high performance computing
In-situ NanoElectrical Measurements in a Transmission Electron Microscope (NEMINTEM)

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: Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2017-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2500000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2500000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Nanocharacterization techniques are becoming increasingly important. They help us to determine local atomic arrangements, element compositions as well as electronic structures. High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM) is the most powerful and widely accepted technique. However, until recently in-situ HRTEM did not show sufficient resolution to image changes on the atomic scale. In the last five years, my group has pioneered advanced specimen holders towards in-situ HRTEM. We have leading expertise in obtaining the high resolution in a range of controllable environments: temperatures, pressures, and liquids. In addition, combinations with other types of parallel measurements were pioneered, such as in-situ low-noise electrical characterization. Clearly it is indeed possible to operate the HRTEM as a nanolaboratory. It allows to really see what one is measuring. With this proposal I want to realize the equipment and methodology to perform nano-electrical measurements of nanostructures in-situ in a HRTEM. The NanoElectrical Measurements in a Transmission Electron Microscope (NEMinTEM) will be applied to nanostructures of a range of materials. Furthermore the electron beam will be used to make well-controlled modifications of the nanostructure. The effects of these modifications on the electrical properties will be measured simultaneously. Semiconductor nanowires, graphene, metallic bridges and nanoelectrodes, and oxide multilayers will be studied, providing challenging examples with possible high-impact results It is to be expected that once NEMinTEM is mature, it will be applied to many more materials.

Keywords: in-situ tem,structure-properties relations,atomic resolution imaging,nanoelectrical measurements,nanowires
New Organic Semiconductor Device Concepts (NUDEV)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-09-30
Duration (months): 66.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1953280.0
EU funding (EUR): 1953280.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the present project is to investigate novel device concepts based on organic semiconductor materials: the number of device principles is still rather small for organic devices and many concepts are not explored. The concept of controlled molecular doping successfully introduced to optoelectronic devices will be used here to achieve Fermi level control and well-defined junctions. Preferentially, we plan to work in this project with oligomer substances which are deposited by vacuum technology. The main reason for this choice is that this approach allows depositing multilayer structures with comparatively high reproducibility. However, the principles developed here should also applicable with other low-cost deposition technologies such as printing. Based on previous experiments such as the realization of the first pn-homojunction, this work will concentrate on the following devices: First, we want to further develop the Zener diodes which have in first experiments shown that the basic effects exist in organic devices as well. The goal is to significantly reduce the forward offset voltage and the improve controllability of the reverse breakdown voltage. Second, we want to try to realize efficient triodes allowing larger currents and higher switching speed as conventional approaches. Furthermore, we strive to realize an organic bipolar transistor, which is challenging in organic devices due the rather small diffusion lengths. Third, we will approach new devices with more complex layer structures, such as thyristors. While certain device types will be in the focus of the projects, we expect that the general understanding of organic semiconductors in switching device applications can be improved.

Keywords: organic semiconductors,electronic transport
Microrobotics and Nanomedicine (BOTMED)

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: Switzerland
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-04-01
End date: 2016-03-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2498043.6
EU funding (EUR): 2498043.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The introduction of minimally invasive surgery in the 1980’s created a paradigm shift in surgical procedures. Health care is now in a position to make a more dramatic leap by integrating newly developed wireless microrobotic technologies with nanomedicine to perform precisely targeted, localized endoluminal techniques. Devices capable of entering the human body through natural orifices or small incisions to deliver drugs, perform diagnostic procedures, and excise and repair tissue will be used. These new procedures will result in less trauma to the patient and faster recovery times, and will enable new therapies that have not yet been conceived. In order to realize this, many new technologies must be developed and synergistically integrated, and medical therapies for which the technology will prove successful must be aggressively pursued. This proposed project will result in the realization of animal trials in which wireless microrobotic devices will be used to investigate a variety of extremely delicate ophthalmic therapies. The therapies to be pursued include the delivery of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) to blocked retinal veins, the peeling of epiretinal membranes from the retina, and the development of diagnostic procedures based on mapping oxygen concentration at the vitreous-retina interface. With successful animal trials, a path to human trials and commercialization will follow. Clearly, many systems in the body have the potential to benefit from the endoluminal technologies that this project considers, including the digestive system, the circulatory system, the urinary system, the central nervous system, the respiratory system, the female reproductive system and even the fetus. Microrobotic retinal therapies will greatly illuminate the potential that the integration of microrobotics and nanomedicine holds for society, and greatly accelerate this trend in Europe.

Keywords: microrobotics,nanorobotics,nanomedicine,retinal therapy
Spintronics based on relativistic phenomena in systems with zero magnetic moment (0MSPIN)

Framework: FP7 — Ideas
Programme: European Research Council
Theme: European research council
Destination: Advanced grants
Action type: Support for frontier research (ERC)
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Countries involved: Czechia,United Kingdom
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-06-01
End date: 2016-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1938000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1938000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The 0MSPIN project consists of an extensive integrated theoretical, experimental and device development programme of research opening a radical new approach to spintronics. Spintronics has the potential to supersede existing storage and memory applications, and to provide alternatives to current CMOS technology. Ferromagnetic matels used in all current spintronics applications may make it impractical to realise the full potential of spintronics. Metals are unsuitable for transistor and information processing applications, for opto-electronics, or for high-density integration. The 0MSPIN project aims to remove the major road-block holding back the development of spintronics in a radical way: removing the ferromagnetic component from key active parts or from the whole of the spintronic devices. This approach is based on exploiting the combination of exchange and spin-orbit coupling phenomena and material systems with zero macroscopic moment. The goal of the 0MSPIN is to provide a new paradigm by which spintronics can enter the realms of conventional semiconductors in both fundamental condensed matter research and in information technologies. In the central part of the proposal, the research towards this goal is embedded within a materials science project whose aim is to introduce into physics and microelectronics an entirely new class of semiconductors. 0MSPIN seeks to exploit three classes of material systems: (1) Antiferromagnetic bi-metallic 3d-5d alloys (e.g. Mn2Au). (2) Antiferromagnetic I-II-V semiconductors (e.g. LiMnAs). (3) Non-magnetic spin-orbit coupled semiconductors with injected spin-polarized currents (e.g. 2D III-V structures). Proof of concept devices operating at high temperatures will be fabricated to show-case new functionalities offered by zero-moment systems for sensing and memory applications, information processing, and opto-electronics technologies.

Keywords: pe3_11: magnetism
Spectroscopy and microscopy of single ions in the solid state (SINGLEION)

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: Germany
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-08-01
End date: 2016-07-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1925673.0
EU funding (EUR): 1925673.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The progress in optical spectroscopy has made it is possible to study individual quantum emitters. However, only a few select “bright” emitters have been detected so far, leaving a large gap in the choice of critical parameters such as wavelength, coherence time, and energy level schemes. In this project, we develop methods for the detection of single emitters with long fluorescence lifetimes. In particular, we concentrate on rare earth ions embedded in crystals, which are of great technological and fundamental interest. To achieve this goal, we exploit methods from ultrahigh resolution microscopy, laser spectroscopy, scanning probe technology, cavity quantum electrodynamics, and plasmonics. The first approach to the detection of single ions at cryogenic temperatures will be to perform direct fluorescence excitation as well as absorption spectroscopy to address single Pr3+ ions spectrally within the inhomogeneous line of the sample. Here, we will develop a tunable laser system with sub-kHz linewidth for probing the narrow transitions of the ions. We expect a signal-to-noise ratio of about 10 in this first step. In order to improve this, we will enhance the emission of ions by pursuing two strategies. In the first case, we shall embed doped crystalline films in monolithic Bragg microcavities. In the second approach, we use plasmonic nanoantennas to reduce the radiative lifetime of the ions in the near field. The well-defined energy levels of ions provide ways for the preparation of long-lived coherent states for use in quantum information processing. Furthermore, access to the homogeneous spectra of ions at different temperatures and doping concentrations will shed light on fundamental open questions regarding their interaction with their matrices.

Keywords: plasmonic enhancement,single ion,microcavity
Science Friction (SCIFRI)

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: Netherlands,Netherlands
Call:  (ERC-2010-AdG_20100224, 2010)
Start date: 2011-07-01
End date: 2016-06-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2494000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2494000.0
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

There is no fundamental law that dictates the necessity of losing energy in a sliding contact. In spite of its apparent simplicity, we have a relatively poor understanding of the mechanisms that determine how energy is lost when two bodies are forced to slide over one another. The SciFri project will launch a research attack on friction that will not only deepen our fundamental insight into this important phenomenon but also involves the development of several strategies to significantly lower or ‘lose’ friction under practical circumstances. " We will address in detail how energy is really dissipated on the atomic scale when sliding objects slip over a single lattice spacing. " We will bring friction to a halt by employing two mechanisms that we have explored recently on the atomic scale: superlubricity and thermolubricity. " Scaling up the two friction-lowering effects to the macro-scale will be attempted by a combination of two completely novel approaches. One is the use of special coatings, namely single monolayers of graphene or hexagonal boron nitride. The other involves a specific nanopatterning of the contacting surfaces. " In our friction experiments and modeling we will cover the full range of length scales, from the atomic regime all the way to the practical scale of so-called MEMS devices. This will prove to be an essential element in the extrapolation of nanoscale behavior to friction on a practical level. We will further compare measurements in uncompromised (ultrahigh) vacuum with observations under controlled ambient conditions, in order to explore the role of the atmosphere.

Keywords: friction,superlubricity,graphene