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Divide and conquer ab initio semiclassical molecular dynamics for spectroscopic calculations of complex systems (SEMICOMPLEX)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Panel description: Analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG, 2014)
Start date: 2015-11-01
End date: 2022-04-30
Duration (months): 78.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1899973.0
EU funding (EUR): 1899973.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Given the continuing revolution in “nano” and “bio” technologies, it is urgent for chemists to be able to carry out reliable quantum dynamics simulations of complex molecular systems. The goal of this project is to fill the gap between theory and experiment and provide the community with a user-friendly computational tool for nuclear spectra (IR, vibro-electronic, etc.) calculations of very complex systems. Present theoretical methodologies are hampered either by artificial nuclear potential interactions or by local potential perturbation assumptions. The semiclassical molecular dynamics method that I have been pioneering is not affected by these limitations because it is based on ab initio classical trajectories. The nuclear forces can be calculated by any electronic structure software and trajectories can explore the entire potential surface. The remaining challenge is to overcome the exponential scaling of computational power. I will adopt a divide-and-conquer strategy to beat the curse of dimensionality. Firstly, the ab initio classical molecular dynamics is performed for the entire complex system. Then, partial spectra are calculated by using the semiclassical information derived by the projection of the trajectories onto lower dimensional spaces. Vibrational modes are not artificially decoupled. Finally, the entire spectrum is reconstructed piece by piece. This method allows chemists to have a more reliable spectral interpretation in a wider context up to the nanoscale. With the help of my own previous experience and my collaborations, I will simulate pollutant photodegradation for environmental remediation and the vibro-electronic spectra of carcinogenic molecules adsorbed on TiO2. I will also reproduce the spectroscopic properties of molecular nano-texturing of titania films for outdoor cultural heritage preservation. A new generation of semiclassical fellows will be educated to put Europe on the leading edge of quantum simulations for spectroscopy.

Keywords: semiclassical initial value representation,sc ivr,semiclassical molecular dynamics
Detachment of water: Light triggered water droplet release from biomimetic honeycomb-structured polymer surfaces (DEW)

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: France
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, 2014)
Start date: 2016-03-01
End date: 2017-08-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 129807.0
EU funding (EUR): 129807.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Inspired by the Stenoccara beetle, the long term vision for this project is the development of biomimetic smart polymer surfaces which can capture water from humid night air and release it upon exposure to the morning sun through a light triggered mechanism. In moving towards this goal, this project will synthesise new honeycomb structured porous films from light sensitive block copolymers. Their unique hierarchical structure on both the micro- and nano-scales will be exploited for the adhesion of water droplets to the surface, and the light sensitive entities will allow switching of the surface properties to trigger droplet detachment. The project will expand the field of light-responsive surfaces. Firstly, light-switchable honeycomb structured porous films are yet to be reported. Secondly, unique “nanopillar” morphology will be introduced by the degradation of a sacrificial polymer to increase roughness and promote hydrophobic droplet adhesion, which has not been reported for honeycomb films. Thirdly, the light-switchable units will consist of a new class of azobenzenes which can be reversible switched between hydrophobic to hydrophilic using visible rather than UV light, which will open up possible applications where UV switching is precluded.

Keywords: smart surfaces,breath figures,honeycomb,light sensitive polymers,block copolymers,surface structuration
The formation and evolution of monomineralic oxide layers in mafic intrusions (EFOX)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2016-04-01
End date: 2018-11-11
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The world’s greatest resources of platinum-group elements, Cr and V are found in almost monomineralic, metre-scale, layers of Cr- and Fe-Ti oxides that formed during solidification of large bodies of basaltic magma trapped in the Earth’s crust (i.e. mafic layered intrusions). The largest and most economically important oxide layers are found in a vast layered intrusion in South Africa, known as the Bushveld Complex. The critical economic importance of these oxide layers means that they have been the subject of intense study for decades, but most of this work has been focussed on their composition. We have almost no understanding of the physical processes that result in the formation of layers dominated by a single mineral, especially given how very dense these oxides are compared to the other minerals crystallising from the magma. We also know nothing about the extent to which their microstructure and composition may change once the layers have been formed. Developing an understanding of how these layers form and evolve will provide a robust scientific framework to support further economic exploitation of these mineral resources. I propose a research program that is aimed at understanding the physical processes controlling deposition, post-accumulation compaction and recrystallization of layers of dense oxide particles. The approach involves a combination of detailed microstructural and geochemical profiles across individual oxide layers from the Bushveld intrusion to understand crystal sorting and compaction in layers deposited on the magma chamber floor. The results of our study will provide an understanding of the physics of the formation and evolution of dense oxide layers, providing much-needed constraints on existing models, based primarily on geochemical observations, of these economically important features.

Keywords: layered intrusions,bushveld complex,chromitite,magnetitite
Smart and adaptive interfaces for INCLUSIVE work environment (INCLUSIVE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Technologies for Factories of the Future
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Germany,Germany,Italy,Italy,Germany,Italy,Türkiye,Poland,Greece
Call: Continuous adaptation of work environments with changing levels of automation in evolving production systems (H2020-FOF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2016-10-01
End date: 2019-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4324587.5
EU funding (EUR): 4324587.5
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

The market demands flexible productions lead to complexification of production systems and hence to more articulated Human Machine Interface (HMI). This new features tend to exclude from working environment elderly people who, even if they have a great experience, feel uncomfortable in the interaction with a complex computerized system. Moreover, complex HMI creates a barrier to young inexperienced or disabled people for an effective management of the production lines. To tackle this problems, INCLUSIVE aims to develop a new concept of interaction between the user and the machines in which the behavior of the automation system adapts to human operator capabilities. Hence, INCLUSIVE develops an ecosystem of technological innovations driven by human factors analysis applied to three concrete industrial use cases, carefully chosen to represent a wide range of needs and requests from industry. INCLUSIVE is based on three pillars: • Human capabilities measurement • Adaptation of interfaces to human capabilities. • Teaching and training the unskilled users. Once developed, the new system will be initially tested in lab and then in the use case premises where cognitive load measurement data will be analyzed. 12 months of the project are dedicated to the adoption and use in real conditions of the new tools in the three industrial use cases, in order to demonstrate its validity and improvement reached in working environment. The anonymity of workers will be completed guarantee and the data collected will not be attributable to a specific person. The consortium is formed by eleven partners (six companies and 5 research centres) located in Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Turkey, which represent a full product value chain that include: HMI developer (PROGEA), software developer (SOFTFACT) machine developer (KHS, SCM), system integrator (GIZELIS), final user (SILVERLINE) and research centres (UNIMORE, TUM, RWTHA and CIOP), and a technology transfer specialist (ASTER).

Keywords: smart human machine interface,inclusive working environment
Growth Welfare Innovation Productivity (GROWINPRO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Theme: Inclusive societies
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Estonia,Austria,Germany,Italy,Belgium,Slovenia,France,Netherlands,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Supply and demand-oriented economic policies to boost robust growth in Europe – Addressing the social and economic challenges in Europe (H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2019-01-01
End date: 2022-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2997700.0
EU funding (EUR): 2997700.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Well before the Great Recession, the strikingly successful socio-economic regime of growth of the three decades after WWII came to an end as the smooth matching among technological innovation, productivity growth, income distribution and aggregate demand increasingly broke down. However, a new virtuous regime is hardly emerging and growth of income and productivity remains sluggish especially in Europe. The project is meant to investigate the causes of the slowdown and to propose an integrated policy package able to sustain an inclusive and welfare-enhancing process of growth resilient to climate change and population aging. In some respects, the proposal represents the deepening of the ‘diagnostic exercise’ we have undertaken in a very successful H2020 project: ISIGrowth http://www.isigrowth.eu/. In many others it extends the scope of the investigation, fully addressing the whole thread of the interaction among innovation, productivity, and growth in a world possibly undergoing a' IV Industrial Revolution', wherein globalization exacerbated the diverging patterns of value distribution among countries and social groups. Together, it will thoroughly study the effects of monetary, fiscal and mission-oriented policies in stimulating productivity and output growth. The team comprises leading international scholars ranging from economics of innovation, industrial dynamics, econometrics, agent-based macroeconomics, and public governance. Crucially a group of National Statistical Offices will join the research, also developing new data and measurements. The policy recommendations will be grounded on solid micro-, meso- and macro analyses, always accounting for the feedbacks between Schumpeterian (supply side) dynamics and Keynesian (demand side) ones. The relevance and adequacy of the proposed policies will be continuously challenged by the interaction with a whole set of stakeholders belonging to European Institutions, civil society, and business.
A Novel Double Wheel Rake Machine to provide high quality fodder and high operational speed (RA-RAKE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy
Theme: Sustainable agriculture and forestry
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for sustainable and competitive agriculture, forestry, agri-food and bio-based sectors (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2019-04-30
Duration (months): 22.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1370685.25
EU funding (EUR): 959479.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Dirty fodder is directly responsible of many serious problems in EU agriculture sector: the 2.5 % of cattle dye by Clostridia and the milk production chain is reduced of almost 5% due to the presence of dust and stones (technically ash content) into the fodder. In addition, dirty triggers fermentation processes which destroy the fodder itself. In 2016 just in Hungary 1,000 tonnes of fodder have been lost for this reason. Farmers are demanding high quality forage which can ensure maximising diary production. Current windrowing machines share serious limitations in terms of productivity and quality of forage: to date it does not exists a universal solution able to provide good quality forage at a reasonable working speed and with a low initial investment. At the time of making good fodder quality, raking is a key element because during this process the fodder is always in contact with the ground and it could be lifted and mixed with dust and stones. Our company has more than 100 year of history in the agricultural market with a high specialisation in hay making sector. We gained a strong reputation through the fodder cleanliness (which distinguishes our company policy) and the high quality that always has characterized our products. With RA-RAKE we will provide a windrowing machine that will be far better than the best-selling windrower (rotary rakes): it will be able to provide cleaner forage (1.8% ash content vs 7.5%) at a higher speed (≥20 km/h vs 12 km/h) and with a lower initial investment (reduced 35%). This will have a disruptive impact at many levels: a) for our company, permitting a 750% increase of our revenue and + 31 new employees; b) for the end user, as RA-RAKE will permit to save more than 43,000 € per year and c) for EU as it will permit to save more than 18,000 cattle heads and to generate a value estimated in 155 M €.

Keywords: windrower,high quality forage,hay rake,wheel rake,fodder harvesting,raking machine,sustainable agriculture
Development of a novel continuous Extracellular Vesicle production system (greenEV)

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: Environment and Geosciences
Countries involved: Italy
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2019, 2019)
Start date: 2020-12-01
End date: 2022-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183473.28
EU funding (EUR): 183473.28
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Functional foods boosted with bioactive nutrients to enhance health and mitigating disease conditions are experiencing an amazing progress. Encapsulation is becoming an important strategy to enhance the bioavailability of poorly absorbed compounds and developing healthy foods. In this context, novel nano-scale approaches to create alternative delivery options for nutraceuticals are emerging. GreenEV aims to develop a continuous plant tissue culturing system for the manufacturing of non-mammalian nanovesicles, and exploit them for the encapsulation, release and bioavailability enhancement of selected nutraceuticals. Plants cells have been shown to physiologically release phospholipid membrane-surrounded vesicles into the apoplast and environment. These vesicles are morphologically similar to mammalian extracellular vesicles (EVs). The process that drive the vesicle formation and their release through the semi-rigid cell wall is not trivial, and will be studied in the greenEV. The experienced researcher is a plant biologist with strong background in plant tissue culturing who team-up with the Institute of Biosciences and BioResources (IBBR) with considerable expertise in EV research to realize a uniquely interdisciplinary research program. The research proposed here will realize the following concrete objectives: 1. Set-up a novel, plant-based EV production system, 2. Employ an integrated analytical pipeline for the isolation, characterization, encapsulation, uptake and toxicological profiling of plant secreted EVs. Neither of these objectives have been addressed before and both have high potential to expand the knowledge in the field and to drive the research activity towards industrialized continuous production of plant EVs. The research objectives are integrated with concerted training objectives in EV research, omics, outreach program, dissemination events and considerable knowledge transfer in plant tissue culturing from the researcher to the IBBR host group.

Keywords: extracellular vesicles,nanovectors,plant cell suspension culture,mass spectrometry,nutraceuticals,secretion mechanisms,biochemistry,continuous reactors,gingko biloba,tomato,cosmeceuticals
Industrial Development of PANIPLAST Process Poly(aniline) Conductive Polymers (PANIPLAST)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Programme: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology
Theme: Nanotechnologies
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs (H2020-SMEINST-1-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2015-08-01
End date: 2016-01-31
Duration (months): 6.0
Total project cost (EUR): 71429.0
EU funding (EUR): 50000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

STILZ Chimie is a subsidiary of RESCOLL, which is an independent R&D organization based in France, specialized in materials chemistry. Building upon seminal work in polyaniline performed at the CEA, RESCOLL has developed a new and patented conductive polymer formulation. Based on poly(aniline) conductive polymers, PANIPLAST is an innovative response to many market needs, and is a process which permits the production of safe-by-design, REACh compliant, flexible, low-cost, highly concentrated (up to 40% w/w) dispersions of poly(aniline) which exhibit very high electrical conductivities, and possess improved stability. PANIPLAST is a material with great market potential. With this project, within five years, STILZ Chimie expects to become a leading supplier in the European market of advanced conductive polymers for heating applications. It is expected in the five years following the EU-funded portion of the project (i.e. following Phase II), PANIPLAST will achieve turnovers of 13.3 M€ across the combined markets of construction, wind power, and aerospace, reaching annual production volumes of 67.5 tons of PANIPLAST. The current state of PANIPLAST industrialization faces the following challenges: • Capital for investment in production-level synthesis equipment for poly(aniline) • RESCOLL’s partners need PANIPLAST to pass rapidly to the industrial stage to respond to their product needs • RESCOLL has an innovative, patented technology that needs to be put on the market in a timely fashion in order to fully exploit its IP protection. In order to bring PANIPLAST systems to market, it is vitally important to prioritize markets, evaluate key players, and formulate the winning strategy for successful commercialization. Phase I of the PANIPLAST project will undertake a feasibility study to evaluate the industrialization of PANIPLAST products and their commercialization.

Keywords: poly aniline,conductive polymers
AN INTELLIGENT PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR THE SMART EFFICIENT USE OF RESOURCES IN CITIES (PREDISMART)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Societal Challenges
Programme: Climate action, environment,  resource efficiency and raw materials
Action type: SME instrument
Countries involved: France
Call: Boosting the potential of small businesses in the areas of climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, 2017)
Start date: 2017-11-01
End date: 2020-07-31
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1858875.0
EU funding (EUR): 1301212.5
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Datapole is a French company with over 6 years experience delivering solutions of Big Data Analytics to customers in the markets of Facility Management (FM), energy and resources management. Our new PrediSmart software platform is our response to market demands of Analytics tools for energy, operations and resource efficiency. PrediSmart is an integrated turn-key solution that brings potential results in terms of energy efficiency (10%), and resource efficiency (30%) to buildings owners, facility managers, utilities and smart cities. Additional benefits are its ease of use, an automatic set-up, and the use of standardized IoT data input protocols. PrediSmart outputs support the user on the decision making towards resource efficiency. As a secondary benefit, they provide data to document the company LCA and environmental impact assessment in conformity with its CSR politics. PrediSmart is an integrated scalable solution suitable for a broad range of end users such as Building Owners, FM companies, ESPCs & ESCOs, IoT platform suppliers and Utilities delivering Energy, Water and Waste collection services. The size of the EU potential market for PrediSmart is estimated at 146 B€. PrediSmart value proposition to end customers is a customer ROI up to 400% in terms of energy, O&M and other environmental savings; a solution that pays back in the first year of implementation. After a successful field test of the separated software product modules, we now aim to complete the development of some missing components, integrate them and launch to the European market the PrediSmart platform reaching 13 M€ accumulated sales over the period 2019-2021. We will do so by expanding our customer base and our partner network across existing and new countries in Europe. We will demonstrate the product technical upgrades by deploying a demonstration program across several major European cities with the participation of reference partners such as Vinci-Facilities and Thales.

Keywords: data analytics,prediction,facility management,building energy management,water management,smart building,cmms