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Constructing chemically fueled hydrogels of polymers (FuelHydrogel)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Career Restart panel
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Denmark
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-11-01
End date: 2024-07-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 219312.0
EU funding (EUR): 219312.0
Participants: 1
Project status: TERMINATED

Most synthetic materials are close-to or reside-in equilibrium, however, life, the most ‘intelligent materials’ on earth, always stays away-from-equilibrium. This non-equilibrium state is usually sustained by high energy molecules (chemical fuels) harvested from metabolic reaction cycles. This has inspired the construction of chemically fueled dissipative molecular assemblies. Currently, these chemically fueled systems mainly focus on small molecules. Compared to small molecules, polymers show advantages in constructing 3D-bulk materials, as well as, integrating and amplifying molecular-scale changes to visible macroscopic changes. Thus, I propose to construct chemically fueled polymeric materials to overcome current limitations. A series of dextran-based chemically fueled hydrogels are constructed by coupling with appropriate analogue metabolic reaction cycles. The resulting hydrogels are responsive to chemical fuels and have the ability of self-healing and programmable decay. The life-time of the hydrogels is controllable by manipulating the kinetics of the reaction cycles. Controlled release of active ingredients (e.g. for drug delivery applications) from these hydrogels will be investigated. This fellowship will help me to reintegrate into the scientific community after maternity leave since 2017 in France. The project will be interdisciplinary as it ranges from the understanding of biological materials over polymer chemistry, systems chemistry, and organic chemistry to potential biomedical applications. It will also promote the two-way transfer of knowledge between me and the host.

Keywords: chemically fueled hydrogels,reaction cycles,dextran,crosslinking,systems chemistry,dissipative
Site-Specific Heteroatoms Doped Graphdiyne as Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for Nitrogen Reduction (GDYNRR)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-08-01
End date: 2023-07-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191149.44
EU funding (EUR): 191149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Eletrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) has rencetly emerged as a sustainable alternative for ammonia production. However, the metal-based electrocatalysts for NRR suffer from low efficienciess due to the competing hydrogen evolution reaction. Heteroatoms doped carbon based metal-free catalysts feature weak integration with hydrogen, making them potential candidates for NRR. The NRR activity depends closely on the the form of doped atoms. The pyridinic N atoms and BC3 structure are demonstrated as the most active sites for ammonia synthesis. However, for widely researched carbon materials, it is difficult to selectively dope a sufficient amount of site-specific pyridinic N or BC3 atoms. As a lamellar carbon allotrope, graphdiyne (GDY), constituted by sp- and sp2- carbon atoms, is a great breakthrough. The high energy of sp-hybridization of acetylenic linkages enables the arbitrary angle rotation of π/π* perpendicular to the axis, endowing it a possibility to point towards N2. Another important feature of GDY is that it can be synthesized in solution via bottom-up method. A controllable heteroatoms doping method using a monomer design strategy, provides an ideal solution to achieve the site-specific doping. However, the attempt to design site-specific pyridinic N or BC3 atoms doped GDYs for electrocatalytic NRR has never been reported. The objective of this project is to selectively dope the site-specific pyridinic N and BC3 atoms into GDY to achieve the high performance and selectivity towards NRR. The influence of the pyridinic N and BC3 structure on the properties of GDY will be studied. Afterwards, the prepared site-specific heteroatoms doped GDYs will be used as electrocatalysts for NRR. Owing to the exact doping structure, the catalytic mechanisms for NRR will be recognized. At last, the optimal heteroatoms doped GDY electrode will be integrated in a functional N2 reduction device to demonstrate the overall N2 reduction in practical conditions.

Keywords: graphdiyne,carbon materials,electrocatalysis,heterogeneous catalysis,green chemistry
Mobile thermal energy storage based on recycled ceramics (EcoStock)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Innovation in SMEs
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: SME instrument (H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2, 2019)
Start date: 2019-11-01
End date: 2023-04-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1978750.0
EU funding (EUR): 1385125.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Today heavy industries lose 20-40% of the energy they consume through waste heat. Above 200°C, these losses represent each year more than 4,000 TWhth, €200bn, 2,500 Mt CO2. Waste heat recovery solutions have emerged: they offer massive potential in costs/energy savings as well as reduction of environmental impact. However, due to financial viability, existing solutions are mainly implemented for large industries & not compatible with all types of processes. Main challenge is to offer reliable, efficient & affordable heat recovery solution with reduced CAPEX & OPEX. Our solution is based on 3 innovative concepts: - The elaboration of ceramics from industrial wastes, such as refractory ceramics for thermal storage; - The implementation of those ceramics in a thermal energy storage unit EcoStock. EcoStock is an efficient, affordable & low risk technology; - The financial scheme design facilitating & de-risking the customer purchase, based on ESCO investment. This solution solves one of the main challenges of the industry—increasing energy efficiency while reducing CO2 emissions & saving money. Waste heat recovery is a global multisector market: 50,000+ industrial sites in various sectors are concerned & thousands of EcoStock units could be sold. The market size of waste heat recovery systems was €39.3bn in 2015, projected to reach €58.8bn by 2021. It is a high-volume market. underexploited because of high CAPEX & low flexibility of existing solutions. To reach the commercialisation objective, the Phase 2 project budget is €1.9m for 24 months.

Keywords: heat,waste hear recovery,furnaces,continuous heat,discontinuous heat
European Network of Observatories and Research Infrastructures for Volcanology (EUROVOLC)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Research Infrastructures
Theme: Research infrastructures
Destination: Integrating activities and infrastructures
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Iceland,Ireland,Italy,Italy,Spain,Greece,Switzerland,France,France,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Portugal
Call: Integrating Activities for Starting Communities (H2020-INFRAIA-2017-1-two-stage, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2021-11-30
Duration (months): 46.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6422849.27
EU funding (EUR): 4997292.5
Participants: 25
Project status: CLOSED

EUROVOLC will construct an integrated and harmonized European volcanological community able to fully support, exploit and build-upon existing and emerging national and pan-European research infrastructures, including e-Infrastructures of the European Supersite volcanoes. The harmonization includes linking scientists and stakeholders and connecting still isolated volcanological infrastructures located at in situ volcano observatories (VO) and volcanological research institutions (VRIs). EUROVOLC will overcome fragmentation at various levels, including community, project and discipline fragmentation by addressing four main themes: Community building, volcano-atmosphere interaction, sub-surface processes and volcanic crisis preparedness and risk management. Examples of networking activities under these themes include collaboration and networking between VOs, VRIs and civil protection agencies, networking of atmospheric gas and aerosol observations as well as observations of subsurface processes, and initiation of access to multidisciplinary observations from Krafla Volcano Laboratory as a test bed. Joint research activities include production of services to initialize volcanic ash transport and dispersal models during eruptions, integrated modelling of pre-eruption data, and a complete catalogue of European Volcanoes. Trans-national access to European Volcano observatories will be facilitated and virtual access to various modelling and assessment tools for responding to volcanic unrest and eruptions will be offered. Through these activities EUROVOLC will integrate the European volcanological community and open up and provide a wider, simplified, and more efficient access to key, multidisciplinary European research infrastructures located at leading VOs and VRIs to conduct improved volcanological research, drive best practice at volcanological observatories and open pathways for enterprise to better exploit georesources in volcanic areas such as geothermal energy.

Keywords: volcanology,volcano observatories,volcanological research institutions,networking,trans national access,virtual access,community building,data access
Quantum communication networks (QINTERNET)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Computer science and informatics
Panel description: Informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2015-STG, 2015)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2021-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498725.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498725.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

My goal is to overcome the two-most pressing theoretical challenges necessary to build large-scale quantum communication networks: routing and designing protocols that use them to solve useful tasks. In two interconnected projects, I will devise entirely new concepts, models and mathematical methods that take into account the intricacies of real world quantum devices that can operate on only very few quantum bits at a time. (1) Security: I will prove the security of quantum cryptographic protocols under realistic conditions, and implement them in collaboration with experimentalists. I will develop a general theory and practical tests for the security of multi-party cryptographic primitives using untrusted quantum devices. This is mathematically challenging due to the possibility of entanglement between the devices. (2) Routing: I will initiate the systematic study of effective routing in a quantum communication network. This is necessary for quantum networks to grow in scale. Quantum entanglement offers very different means of routing messages than is possible in classical networks, and poses genuinely new challenges to computer science. I will design routing protocols in a multi-node quantum network of potentially different physical implementations, i.e., hybrid networks, that will establish a new line of research in my field. Quantum networks are still in their infancy, even though quantum communication offers unparalleled advantages that are provably impossible using classical communication. Building a quantum network is an interdisciplinary effort bringing together computer science, physics, and engineering. I am in a unique position in computer science, since I have recently joined QuTech where I have direct access to small quantum devices - bringing me tantalizingly close to seeing such networks realized. As with early classical networks, it is difficult to predict where our journey will end, but my research will join theory and experiment to move forward.

Keywords: quantum information theory,quantum cryptography,quantum repeater
CALIPRI Smart - the easy to use and failsafe handheld optical gauge for 2D-profiles. (CALIPRI Smart)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Austria
Call: Open Disruptive Innovation Scheme (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2016)
Start date: 2016-05-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2867758.75
EU funding (EUR): 2006283.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

CALIPRI Smart is a handheld measuring device for geometrical properties of arbitrary objects. The optical gauge outputs 2D profiles via WLAN and can be used for quality management and safety checks. The most important markets are railway companies, the automotive industry and rolling mills (steel). The key of the innovation is the software of CALIPRI which allows high-precision measurements although the device is hand guided. This software can be adapted easily to the individual needs of the customer. In opposite to devices, which use a hardware developed for a certain niche application, CALIPRI is a universal solution. This allows a high quantity and low unit cost in production. The customisation is the low-cost part of the product and so it is possible to produce niche products at the quantity and price of a mass product. The customisation for the markets only needs a housing optimized for the use case, a user interface adapted to the markets needs and a configuration file for the use case. The core technology stays the same in all versions of CALIPRI Smart. In this project Nextsense will launch the following versions: 1. C42 SA (single-app) for safety checks on wheel flanges in the railway industry 2. C42 MA (multi-app) for safety checks on wheel flanges, breaks, wheel diameters and rails. 3. C14 for quality control of car bodies in the automotive industry 4. C-Hot for the measuring of red-hot steel parts in rolling mill. The USPs are: a.) the easy and failsafe measuring procedure which does not need skilled employees. b.) high volumes of the expensive parts of the device and hence low prices. Pay-off time lower than a year c.) 100% contact-less measurements d.) C-Hot is the only portable device to measure the profiles of red-hot steel parts. The product launches are accompanied by the establishment of 2 subsidiaries in Atlanta and Shanghai and a Company ramp up from currently 50 FTEs to more than 120 FTEs after phase 2.

Keywords: laser triangulation,optical gauge,customizing software,railway industry,automotive industry,steel industry,usability,worldwide commercialisation,high volume
De novo structural elucidation of functional organic powders at natural isotopic abundance (STRUCTURE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-01-01
End date: 2023-12-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499632.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499632.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Structure holds the key to many of the physical world’s most intriguing secrets. Diffraction from single crystals has revolutionized our knowledge of crystalline matter by providing atomic-scale images of countless samples and leading to landmark achievements in science. However, when crystals of sufficient dimensions cannot be grown, structure can hardly be retrieved using currently available methodologies. This hampers our understanding of the physico-chemical behavior of numerous samples, such as functional organic powders (FOP), hence precluding the design of new materials with tailored properties. Solid-state NMR (SSNMR) has the potential to be the key to access the structure of powders for applications in energy or pharmacy. However, the inherently low sensitivity of NMR constitutes the main barrier to retrieve valuable constraints such as interatomic distances and torsional angles from spin-spin couplings involving rare nuclei (e.g. C-13, N-15) on organic samples at natural isotopic abundance (NA), for which chemical shifts are certainly easier to access but less structurally relevant. The project will capitalize on Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) to enhance the sensitivity of SSNMR and obtain unique structural constraints on NA FOPs. Specifically: (i) intra and intermolecular distances, torsional/bond angles and H bonds will be measured for the first time via DNP SSNMR; (ii) together with powder X-ray data, these constraints will be integrated within modern computational algorithms to assist the generation of physically meaningful 3D structures with minimized risk of false positives. The protocol will be applied to time-resolved in situ/ex situ investigation of self-assembly to gain control into polymorph production. We will create an integrated experimental/in silico tool that will extend the proficiency of crystallography in de novo structure elucidation of FOPs of increasing complexity, opening new avenues in chemistry and materials science.

Keywords: solid,nuclear magnetic resonance,dynamic nuclear polarization,dipolar coupling,j coupling,diffraction,computation,crystal structure,structure prediction,structure search,self assembly
The effects of aging in the control of eye movements and its relation to perceptual and motor decisions (DECEYEDE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Standard European Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Social Sciences and Humanities
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Aging involves a series of changes affecting both our cognitive abilities and our motor performance. As any other action, the control we exert over our eye movements changes due to aging. For example, the older we are, the less accurately we pursue moving targets. Even though vision -assisted by eye movements- is the main sensory source of information we use to make most of our decisions (and especially those related to actions), the effect that changes in the oculomotor behavior have on our perceptual and motor decisions remains unknown. The aim of DECEYEDE is to define how oculomotor control evolves with age, and how these changes accompany changes in perceptual and motor decisions. To do so, we will first assess how adults of different ages look at targets in dynamic scenarios about which they have to make a decision. Several parameters such as saccade latencies, number of saccades or pursuit gain will be evaluated, and a relation between such parameters and the performance in perceptual and motor decisions tasks will be established. Second, we will apply parameter based-feedback to explore if we can train eye movements in order to improve performance. We will do so by providing feedback to participants about specific parameters of their oculomotor performance. Such feedback will try to steer eye movements towards parameters similar to those that lead to better perceptual and motor performance. DECEYEDE will advance knowledge on the effects of aging on how we sample visual information from the world around us, and will allow further understanding of the mechanisms behind the decline in perceptual and motor tasks with aging. Furthermore, a successful method to train eye movements based on parameter feedback would represent a breakthrough that would set foundational principles for new ways of sensorimotor learning that will likely impact on the industry developing serious games or training and rehabilitation programs.

Keywords: eye movements,active vision,aging,decision making,learning
FLYNANO - ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT FEASIBILITY VERIFICATION (FlyNano)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Smart, green and integrated transport
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Finland
Call: Small business innovation research for Transport and Smart Cities Mobility (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2018-02-01
End date: 2018-04-30
Duration (months): 3.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The innovation supports the EU’s efforts for sustainable aviation. High-tech eco-innovative electric airplane FlyNano is at TRL 7 and soon to be finished to mass-production. The solution is patented. FlyNano is environmentally and noise friendly plane which uses watercourses as runway. The plane has standard controls and normal airplane’s flying characteristics. The exceptional design of FlyNano includes advanced carbon fibre structure; patented detachable, one-piece boxwing invention, and a unique lightweight electrical powertrain has the world’s best power to weight ratio. The impacts are emissions reduction, safety, noise reduction, workplaces and new business. The solution is unique. Clear business opportunity and customer demand have been detected market tests. The first 10 FlyNanos have been presold and the concept launch lead to 50 M viewers in various media. Fly Nano Ltd (established at 2010) has highly talented team of 12 professionals with the key knowledge for the development and commercialisation of the innovation. The expected growth potential for the next five years is 100 M€ yearly revenue, 50 new workplaces, 5 new patents, 1500 FlyNanos sold and 500 powerlines sold. This feasibility study aims to verify the practical and economic viability of the innovation. The expected outcome of this project is a plan for global commercialisation of FlyNano.

Keywords: aircraft,seaplane,electricial,sustainability,vehicle engineering,eco innovation