Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Advanced Polymeric COmpounds and Metal Matrix Composites for Excellent Performances in Machine Tools applications (COMETA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Italy,Germany,France,Sweden,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SME-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-12-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5520087.88
EU funding (EUR): 3928450.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The COMETA project aims at solving the following problems of SMEs European machine tools manufacturers: -Get high “Thermal” stability, in order to minimise thermally-induced errors arising from thermal deformations of the machine structures caused by internal/external heat sources. -Get high “Dynamic” stability, in order to minimise vibration (forced and chatter) and inertial effects of machine structures. COMETA intends to reach this goals through the integration and tailoring (to specific need machinery sector) of innovative materials, and exploiting a double-side solution: -Novel and mouldable polymeric short fibers “Compound” (SFC) to be used to produce complex parts (flanges, inserts, …) of machine that are use to interface mechanical components (e.g. motors, guideways, spindle, ….) with the rest of the structure made of composite. The proposed SFC is composed of reinforcement (glass or carbon) with short fibres, powdered or impregnated with proper % in volume of thermoset or thermoplastic resin. Switching from metal interfaces (aluminium/steel) to Compound material would bring: extremely lower thermal drift; weight reduction, thus lower energy consumption and lower part inertia; no galvanic corrosion. -Aluminium matrix composite (AMCs) materials to design and realise low-weight (and hot) parts of machines with excellence mechanical performance (e.g. spindle case, bearing spacer, multi-spindle head, motor base, etc.). The reinforcement in AMCs could be in the form of continuous/discontinuous fibres, whisker or particulates. Properties of AMCs can be tailored to the demands of different Machine tool applications by suitable combinations of matrix, reinforcement and processing route. The major advantages of AMCs compared to unreinforced materials are as follows: improved stiffness to weight ratio; improved high temperature properties; controlled thermal expansion coefficient; improved abrasion and wear resistance; improved damping capabilities

Keywords: new high added value materials,passive,thermal and dynamic stabilty,short fiber compounds,aluminium matrix composite
Researchers Going Public (SCIPO)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Luxembourg
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-NIGHT-2008, 2008)
Start date: 2008-06-01
End date: 2008-12-31
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 220609.0
EU funding (EUR): 60000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

A 2007 survey among the Luxembourg public has brought out a shocking truth: hardly anybody knows a local researcher, nor what the researcher’s life is all about. Consequently, the “Researchers Going Public – SCIPO” project, initiated by the FNR (Fonds National de la Recherche), aims to promote dialogue and communication between researchers and the public (especially the young). The project is based on a mix of activities, bringing together researchers and citizens in the popular centre of the City of Luxembourg. From 2 pm until midnight, researchers will literally go public and meet the people in their usual context. The researchers will be the stars of the event, playing the role of testimonials, guides, animators and common human beings Activities will include a Scientific Treasure Hunt across the city’s main locations, several Science Cafés located in popular pubs, and a central venue (”Science in the Streets”) with scientific workshops and expos, the EU information booth and the works of the Photo Competition. As Luxembourg is a small city, this range of activities will – for one day – have the entire city talk about only one thing: researchers. The various target groups throughout the country are the inhabitants of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, the foreign commuters… and a special focus is set on pupils and students, teachers and parents. The SCIPO project will involve researchers from both public and private Luxembourg research organisations. Through a public call for workshop/talk proposals, the focus will be put on “recruiting” local researchers for the event. However, as Luxembourg is a small country, foreign researchers (preferably from the Greater Region) will also be welcome. Finally, although coordinated and submitted by the FNR, the project reflects a multi-partnership aspect (coordinated by the FNR; main partner City of Luxembourg; participating researchers mainly from public and private Luxembourg research organisations).
NANO/MICRO INTEGRATION IN MICROMANUFACTURING (NANOMICRO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: New production
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,Italy,Germany,Portugal,United Kingdom,France,Italy
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SME-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5274018.0
EU funding (EUR): 3900000.0
Participants: 11
Project status: CLOSED

The new high productive platform for 3D main objective of NANOMICRO project is to provide the manufacturing industry with an entirely nanomicromanufacturing platform, by way of a new micron scale resolution and an innovative direct parallel-deposition process. The process will be able to deliver a layer wise manufacturing approach using highly focalized powder/heat fluxes, with dimensions in the micron range. This will allow to control spatial resolution within the same limit and building up parts with such extreme control of the (fully dense) bulk materials. The S/T objectives of the project will provide: -several submicron powder grades as aggregates of nanocrystals; -implementation of highly localized powder fluxes to drive high accuracy object fabrication, on the scale of better than 5 µm; -online monitoring allowing combinations of accuracy and productivity to be achieved at which the technology will become a new production tool, for 3D metal parts integrating nanostructures; -High-precision and High-production (HP2) micro-manufacturing deposition strategies; -multimaterial (gradient) deposition using different powder types on the same layer; -integrated materials and component ecodesign; -nano(micro)manufacturing principles by allowing integration of nanoscale structures first at powder level (micron agglomerates) and then at 3D part level (mm); -HP2 microfabrication station capable of enhanced accuracy and faster micro-objects deposition (typically 1x1 mm/each) by using single laser sintering head or microwave parallelized multi- sintering heads; -Make the developed machine available for exploitation primarily within the EU manufacturing industry. NANOMICRO project fully responds to the call topic extending the microfabrication process capabilities by encompassing a wider range of innovative materials and geometric shapes, satisfying functional and technical requirements, allowing the emerging of new microproducts in many technological fields.

Keywords: nano micro manufacturing parallel deposition 3d part accuracy productivity bulk material fully dense
Nano-resolved multi-scale investigations of human tactile sensations and tissue engineered nanobiosensors (NANOBIOTOUCH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Slovenia,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Sweden,Belgium,Italy,Switzerland,Germany,Czechia
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2, 2008)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4933083.0
EU funding (EUR): 3744590.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The main scientific aims are to radically improve understanding of the human mechanotransduction system and tissue engineered nanobiosensors. This will be achieved through systematic integration of new developments from converging scientific areas by involving academic and industrial participants who are experts in cognitive sciences, microneurography, brain imaging, cell biology and mechanics, tissue engineering, skin physics (tribology and mechanics), microengineering, multi-scale multi-physics modelling, information processing, robotics, prosthetics and medical rehabilitation. The project will build on existing discriminative touch research in order to understand affective touch mediated by the human fingerpad. Sensors capable of detecting directional force and temperature will be developed since a combination of these modalities is critical to the affective component of the neurophysiological response evoked in taction. This next generation of sensors will include NEMS arrays and hybrid bio-NEMS systems. They will be integrated into a robotic finger with articulation controlled by neural network information processing that will allow artificial exploration of a surface to be achieved in ways that mimic human haptic behaviour and affective response. The impact of the project will include alleviating the effects of human touch and vision disabilities, improving the quality of life, security printing, brand protection, smart packaging, space exploration and also the evaluation of products such as textiles and skin creams using the instrumented robotic finger. The consortium includes industrial participants who will undertake specific technical exploitation activities in order to maximise the commercial impact of the research.

Keywords: tactile sensations,mechanoreceptors,tissue engineering,nanobiosensors,numerical modelling,neural networks,cognitive sciences
MOFs as Catalysts and Adsorbents: Discovery and Engineering of Materials for Industrial Applications (MACADEMIA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,France,Belgium,Portugal,Germany,Spain,Belgium,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Germany,Czechia,Poland,Korea, Republic of,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-07-01
End date: 2013-06-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 11624431.33
EU funding (EUR): 7599998.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

A major challenge facing European industry involves the development of more specific, energy saving processes with less environmental impact. The recent development of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) may prove a major milestone in achieving these goals. MACADEMIA project is an extension to an FP6 STREP (DeSANNS) which highlighted some MOF materials for CO2 capture and storage. It will expand and continue this work on a much larger scale. The three Total branches will focus on bringing MOFs to key market sectors - gas separation and storage, liquid separation and catalysis. The Total-led consortium, with 11 academic partners from across EU, one leading South Korean partner, among world leaders among their particular domain of MOF science, will be contributing to the project, with a dedicated management partner. MACADEMIA intends to produce new MOFs and optimise those already of promising interest, characterise MOFs using specialised techniques, test MOFs using a three-tiered process, use predictive modelling and demonstrate the use of MOFs in key industrial processes. It will target separation processes in gas / vapour phase (propene/propane, acid gases separation, CO2 and H2 purification), in liquid phase (xylene separations, recovery of N- and/or S-compounds from hydrocarbons), and in catalysis (Lewis-acid MOFs as catalysts for epoxide polymerization, redox-active MOFs as catalysts for hydrocarbon autoxidation). Several of MACADEMIA’s targets are expected to reach pilot scale whereas a blue sky approach will be taken for others giving room for innovation and step change. An attractive project, it is open to young researchers with industrially coordinated research to counterbalance competition from USA and Japan and able to contribute to a strong ERA.

Keywords: catalysis,gas separation,liquid phase separation
Enhanced Nano-fluid Heat Exchange (NANOHEX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Italy,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Israel,Netherlands,Germany,Sweden,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8215122.7
EU funding (EUR): 6099582.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

Henix will translate promising laboratory based nanotechnology results into pilot lines for the production of nanofluid coolants. This project, conceived and led by its European industrial partners, is designed to improve the competitiveness of European industry by developing new and more efficient cooling technologies and processes; specifically a new, state of the art, nanofluid coolant with a significantly enhanced technological capabilities that will transform the design and performance of thermal management systems. Nanofluid coolants represent a new exploitation of nanotechnology that has only become possible as a result of recent advances in nanoparticle production and dispersion technology. The beneficial adoption of nanofluid coolants usually requires re-design of the whole system including heat exchangers, pumps, pipe work and operating points. The gains come from a subtle re-balancing of the pump power, heat losses, plant cost and thermal efficiency. Flow regimes and the geometry of cooling channels play a key role. Understanding how to design systems to realise these benefits is a bottleneck to industrial adoption of nanofluids coolants. The mechanism of how heat transfer is facilitated by nanoparticles in carrier fluids is not clearly understood by the global research community. Analytical Models as yet do not fully explain and predict the thermal performance of nanofluid coolants. The advancement of this knowledge will enable engineers to readily design heat systems using nanofluid coolants. The most promising application opportunities for nanofluid coolants reside in large information data centres containing computer servers and racks, power electronics and power electronics for electric drives. The project will stimulate and accelerate the industrial take-up of nanofluid coolants used to innovate next generation heat exchangers to more effectively cool equipment and machinery, significantly reducing energy consumption and costs by up to 50%.

Keywords: the project will stimulate and accelerate the industrial take-up/application of nanofluid coolant and will support the development of advanced cooling applications.
Molecular Motors-based Nanodevices (MONAD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Sweden,Germany,Netherlands,Germany,Sweden,Italy,United Kingdom,Romania
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3730573.4
EU funding (EUR): 2646773.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The MONAD project will focus on the design, fabrication and implementation of dynamic nanodevices based on the purposeful interaction of nano-structured surfaces and nano-objects with protein linear molecular motors - ubiquitous biological nano-machines responsible for biological functions as diverse as cell movement and division, transport of vesicles and muscle contraction. The project will develop novel hybrid nano-bio-devices which will allow (i) quasi-immediate diagnostics, compared with the present hours-long response time; (ii) entirely new, efficient high throughput drug discovery for critical diseases, e.g., cancer; and (iii) new methodologies to study the information storage and processing processes in individual cells, with wider impact on medicine and health care industry. This high level of inter-disciplinary innovation will lead to further future new industrial applications, such as immediate, personalised diagnostics. The research consortium will undertake the whole innovation path on molecular-motors based devices, starting from fundamental science to the implementation of the research in demonstration devices for health care and industry. We can pursue this comprehensive science, technology and engineering knowledge transfer because of the existing synergism within the consortium between academia, research institutes and industry. In the context of NMP-2008-1.1-1 the MONAD project will advance the development of protein molecular motors-based devices, well beyond the state of the art, leveraging on, consolidating, and making sustainable the already commanding position of European research in this very specific, paradigmatic-shift emerging area. On a more general level, MONAD will advance and consolidate the high added value of European biomedical industry in the global world market, as well as providing a new high-added value economic rationale to the excellent European semiconductor device knowledge and capability.

Keywords: molecular motors,molecular transport,diagnostic devices,drug discovery devices,microfluidics,nanofluidics,nanodevices,bionanoengineering
Engineering Exotic Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces (OXIDES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Materials
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Belgium,Spain,Spain,Italy,Switzerland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-09-01
End date: 2012-08-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2803575.2
EU funding (EUR): 2150000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Emergent phenomena at oxide interfaces have been recognized as one of 2007’s top ten breakthroughs, exciting great interest. Just as the engineering of physical properties at semiconductor interfaces was the crucial step in Si-based electronics, the next great advance might rely on the multiple novel functionalities of oxide interfaces. The consortium OxIDES will (i) develop theoretical and simulation techniques to model the most relevant types of oxide interfaces and (ii) use them to design a new generation of layered materials with unique experimentally-confirmed properties. The theoretical work will combine first and second principles methods in a multi-scale approach. The experimental partners will guide the choice of relevant systems, grow and characterize the most promising structures, and explore their technological applications. This continuous collaboration is essential to guarantee that the theoretical developments are experimentally validated, and is also the most promising avenue towards the discovery of new and technologically important phenomena. In OxIDES we will consider three types of interfaces: insulating interfaces between insulating oxides, where novel couplings between structural instabilities can lead to unusual phenomena such as improper ferroelectricity; conducting interfaces between insulating oxides, where an interfacial 2-dimensional electron gas might exhibit large thermoelectric power; and interfaces between metallic and insulating oxides, for a deeper understanding of screening. All these are potentially interesting for use in microelectronic devices or energy harvesting. Yet, advancing from basic concepts to applications remains a challenge, and both quantum-mechanical simulations and experimental methods need to be developed to tackle it successfully. Directly addressing the present limitations of oxide interface simulations to make progress in this emergent field is the goal of OxIDES.

Keywords: functional oxides,interfaces,first-principles modelling,effective hamiltonians,superlattices,multilayers
Ultra - thin conductive ceramic mesh to monitor stress and wear on a steel surface (MESMESH)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP
Destination: Integration
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Lithuania,Lithuania,United Kingdom,Denmark,Denmark,Spain,Lithuania,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-NMP-2008-SME-2, 2008)
Start date: 2009-10-01
End date: 2012-10-31
Duration (months): 37.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2606029.0
EU funding (EUR): 1925000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project is the development of a pre-commercial prototype mould with built in continuous structural health monitoring. This will be achieved by carrying out research work appropriate for developing femtosecond laser metal processing techniques to produce smooth walled and depth-controlled grooves on metal parts. In these groves a TiN/Al2O3 composite will be sintered in a few micron thick layer that will work as a wave guide for high frequency pulsing. The measurements will be processed by an FPGA or appropriate dedicated DSP module, to give the user a real time indicator of the structural health of the metal part. If the steel surface gets damaged or is worn down through use, the ceramic grid will crack or become thinner and have increased resistance. Using a number of transducers the surface damage can be quantified and allow for preventive maintenance. The developed technology will be implemented and tested on high precision flanges used in machine construction and on moulds used for injection molding, and hence these will work as proof of concept. The technology could potentially also be used for real time health measurements on dyes for extrusion, in the automotive industry the technology can be applied to driveshaft’s, gears, break pads and a number of other areas where steel surfaces are subjected to continuous friction.

Keywords: ceramic,laser etching,bonding