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Hierarchical multiscale modeling of flexoelectricity and related materials properties from first principles (MULTIFLEXO)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed matter physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2016-COG, 2016)
Start date: 2017-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1470000.0
EU funding (EUR): 1470000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Flexoelectricity, the coupling between an inhomogeneous deformation and the electrical polarization, has emerged a “hot” topic in modern materials science due to its cross-cutting relevance to many phenomena of fundamental and technological interest. Understanding the intriguing physics that governs its behaviour at the nanoscale is crucial to harnessing the potential of strain gradients in practical applications, and such a progress requires a substantial support from theory. In spite of impressive recent advances, first-principles calculations of flexoelectricity remain technically challenging at several levels: first, the breakdown of translational lattice periodicity that a strain gradient entails is problematic to treat in the context of traditional electronic-structure methods; second, the stringent length- and time-scale constraints of direct quantum-mechanical approaches limit the applicability of these methods to real problems, which often involve complex sample shapes and morphologies. This project is aimed at overcoming these obstacles from their very root, via the development of ground-breaking innovations in electronic-structure and multiscale methodologies, and at using these advances to address a number of pressing physical questions in the context of energy and information technologies. In particular, the objectives of this project are: (i) identifying the microscopic mechanisms that are most effective at delivering a strong flexoelectric response in a variety of materials; (ii) understanding how these bulk effects are modified by size, shape and boundary conditions, and how they interact with other material properties; (iii) supporting the experimental interpretation by critically assessing alternative physical interpretations of the observed effects (e.g. compositional gradients); (iv) exploring the functionalities enabled by strain gradients in complex materials systems, including 2D crystals, semiconductor nanowires and multiferroics.

Keywords: ab initio,density functional theory,electromechanical effects,flexoelectricity,piezoelectricity,ferroelectricity,surfaces,domain walls,gradient effects,perovskites,nanostructures
Automated microfluidic phage display through non-fouling droplet-based technologies (microPhage)

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: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 2018)
Start date: 2020-02-01
End date: 2022-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 191149.44
EU funding (EUR): 191149.44
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Effective diagnostic technologies are essential for mitigating the devastating impact that infectious disease has on society. The identification of ligands that can target infectious disease biomarkers within patient samples is key to the function of modern diagnostics. Unfortunately, current methods for ligand selection are slow and labour intensive, and frequently hinder the development of diagnostic technologies. Novel methods for automating this process will increase efficiency and improve the capacity of communities to respond to outbreaks and epidemics. During this fellowship I will develop a novel microfluidic device capable of automated high-throughput selection of highly robust infectious disease targeting ligands. The main objectives are as follows: 1) Explore novel microfluidic materials that are compatible with common ligand selection work flows; 2) Develop a fully automated microfluidic platform capable of performing multiple rounds of ligand selection; 3) Apply this system to generate novel ligands against an emerging HIV biomarker. The device will be underpinned by multiple core microfluidic technologies developed within the host lab, including: rapid droplet generation, droplet disruption, non-fouling materials, and highly responsive microvalves. These technologies will be combined with my expertise in protein chemistry, protein engineering, and chemical biology to achieve a significant leap forwards in automated ligand selection. The resultant device will vastly increase accessibility to high-throughput ligand selection, enabling smaller labs to more effectively select high-affinity ligands against emerging disease targets. This will have a significant impact on the fields of diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, protein engineering, and microfluidics.

Keywords: protein engineering,synthetic biology,antibody mimics
Development of highly efficient and stable organic light-emitting diodes based on delayed fluorescent materials for solid-state lighting applications (THF-OLED)

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: United Kingdom
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-06-01
End date: 2019-11-02
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 183454.8
EU funding (EUR): 183454.8
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

At present, OLED technology is expected to be practically applied to flat panel displays and solid state lighting sources because of its unique characteristics of low-cost processing, flexibility, and low power consumption. Till date, a large number of fluorescent and phosphorescent materials have been developed to improve the electroluminescence (EL) efficiency of OLEDs. As a result, highly durable and practically applicable OLEDs using these materials have been realized. However, the internal quantum efficiency of OLEDs based on fluorescent materials is only 25% because of the limit imposed by the electron spin-statistics under electrical excitation. In contrast, OLEDs using phosphorescent materials based on luminescence from the triplet state can achieve 100% internal quantum efficiency. Recently, an alternative realistic approach, called thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), has been established to obtain ultimate 100% internal EL quantum efficiency in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). But owing to rather a long transient lifetime of the triplet excited states, high efficiency roll-off and low operational stability at high current density are pertaining concerns in TADF based OLEDs. To address these challenges, the present state-of-the-art TADF-OLED technology uses a TADF molecule as an assistant dopant and a fluorescent molecule as an end emitter in a host matrix, called TADF assisted fluorescence (TAF-OLED). However, TAF-OLED approach has several inherent technical challenges associated with device physics, fabrication and cost. Through this research proposal we present a more simplified and realistic approach, called TADF hosted fluorescence (THF), to enhance the performance and operational stability by using TADF material as host material and fluorescent molecule as end emitter eliminating the need of external host matrix thus mitigate the technical issues associated with TAF-OLEDs.

Keywords: organic semiconductors,conjugated molecular materials,luminescent materials,fluorescence,phosphorescence,delayed fluorescence,organic light emitting diode,electroluminescent device
Enabling transformation: Linking design and land system science to foster place-making in peri-urban landscapes under increasing globalization (GLOBESCAPE)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Institutions, Governance and Legal Systems
Panel description: Political science, international relations, law
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2017-STG, 2017)
Start date: 2018-06-01
End date: 2023-05-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1498106.0
EU funding (EUR): 1498106.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Unprecedented urbanization is threatening landscape diversity, bringing along new social and environmental problems. Standardized business centers, single family residential areas and shopping malls displace highly productive agricultural land, while the culture and lifestyles of local communities become absorbed into the sphere of globalization. This dramatic uniformisation is nurtured by the ever increasing global human migration. People are losing their sense of place and their motivation to initiate change. Uniformed international landscapes start dominating peri-urban areas. The result is a tremendous increase in fragility of these new landscapes of the twenty-first century, calling for an active and creative landscape shaping process to secure the long-term provision of critical ecosystem services. Up until now, however, models and tools developed in land system science have not caught up with the needs to understand and ultimately foster humans’ capacities to shape their landscapes. This project will contribute to a next generation of tools and methods to foster the development of resilient landscapes. I suggest linking design and probabilistic modeling in a collaborative landscape development tool to enable the transformation of spaces into places. This unconventional approach is necessary to deal with the probabilistic nature of landscapes. Landscapes can only be defined by including the observer – a concept severally neglected in today’s research efforts. Anchored in four peri-urban case studies, the interdisciplinary experimental and modeling work will have impact far beyond predicting transformation pathways of peri-urban landscapes under increased globalization. The resulting methods and tool will redefine the status quo of current geodesign tools, promote novel ways of deliberative decision-making and governance, and ultimately support humans to intentionally transform peri-urban landscapes.

Keywords: pe6 scientific computing,simulation and modelling tools,pe8 civil engineering,architecture
Long-term coastal adaptation, food security and poverty alleviation in Latin America (TRADITION)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Consolidator grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The study of the human past
Panel description: Archaeology, history and memory
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom
Call: ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2018-COG, 2018)
Start date: 2019-09-01
End date: 2025-08-31
Duration (months): 72.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1877107.0
EU funding (EUR): 1454792.5
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

TRADITION aims to understand the long-term trajectory of human interaction with coastal resources and its legacy to present day small-scale fisheries in Latin America. Founded on traditional knowledge rooted in the past, small-scale fisheries are a crucial source of food and livelihood for millions of people worldwide, and play a pivotal role in poverty eradication in developing countries. A thorough recognition of the cultural and socio-economic significance of Latin American fisheries requires a temporal component that only archaeology and history can provide. TRADITION will investigate a 4000-year record of coastal exploitation in one of the world's most threatened tropical environments: the Atlantic forest of Brazil. We will draw together archaeological, palaeoecological, historical and ethnographic records to address fundamental questions that impinge upon our current understanding of the development of small-scale fisheries in this region. How did coastal economies adapt to the spread of agriculture? What was the impact of past climate and environmental changes on coastal populations? What was the impact of European colonisation of the Americas on the development of small-scale fisheries? What was the role of historical institutions and regulations in the negotiation between traditional and modern practices in small-scale fisheries? How have the historical practices and events shaped current small-scale coastal communities, and can this knowledge benefit current management strategies. The answers will help us understand how coastal economies responded to unprecedented societal and environmental changes by adapting their subsistence practices, technology and culture, while contributing to the foundation of coastal societies in Latin America.
Topological P-wave superfluids with Isotopic K mixtureS (ToPIKS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Spain
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 2020)
Start date: 2021-04-01
End date: 2023-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160932.48
EU funding (EUR): 160932.48
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Topological P-wave superfluids with Isotopic K mixtureS: Pairing of fermions lies at the heart of superfluidity and superconductivity, paradigmatic many-body phenomena arising at all energy scales in Nature – from ultracold to Quark matter. In particular, pairing between fermions with non-zero angular momentum emerges as a key mechanism at the basis of a wealth of unconventional fermionic superfluids, as for the A phase in 3He or electrons in high-Tc superconductors. More specifically, p-wave pairing in 2D is expected to induce superfluid phases with non-trivial topological features, as chirality and anyonic vortex excitations with non-Abelian braiding statistics. The high level of control over the system parameters, together with detection and probing capabilities down to the single atom level, makes of ultracold atomic gases an ideal platform towards the realization and investigation of such paradigmatic yet elusive strongly interacting phases. Despite this, the experimental observation of p-wave superfluidity in atomic gases has never been achieved so far. ToPIKS plans to realize a 2D system with strong p-wave interactions in ultracold Bose-Fermi mixtures of 39K and 40K atoms, on the repulsive side of a Fose-Bose s-wave Feshbach resonance, where the system sustains a heteronuclear fermionic molecular state. The virtual exchange of the lighter 39K bosonic atoms between two 39K40K molecules will in turn induce an effective dimer-dimer p-wave attraction. The key novelty of this approach consists in the possibility to stabilize the system against inelastic losses by promoting a small but finite Bose-Bose repulsion. This is a striking advantage in comparison with previously existing systems exploiting homonuclear p-wave Feshbach resonances, intrinsically suffering from strong 3-body recombination. At the same time, the system maintains the high degree of controllability of atomic gases with Feshbach tunable interactions.

Keywords: condensed matter physics,quantum gases,ultracold mixtures,strongly interacting fermi systems,low dimensions
Closing in on New Physics in light-quark flavour transitions: from tau decays to the LHC (Tau-SYNERGIES)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call: Individual Fellowships (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, 2016)
Start date: 2017-07-01
End date: 2019-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 187419.6
EU funding (EUR): 187419.6
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

This action studies the synergy of the Energy and the Intensity Frontiers, with the focus on non-standard effects involving leptons and light quarks. The project starts with an unprecedented Effective-Field-Theory (EFT) analysis of hadronic tau decays including non-standard effects. Their discovery potential and complementarity with direct LHC searches will be assessed in a model-independent approach. The results will be combined with d(s)→u l nu (l=e,mu) transitions and eq → eq (q=u,d,s) processes in a comprehensive EFT flavour fit that will close in on New Physics involving leptons and light quarks. The obtained model-independent results will be particularised to specific New Physics scenarios that are of phenomenological or theoretical interest. Special attention will be paid to symmetries, symmetry-breaking patterns and classes of models with well-defined power-counting schemes. The emerging correlations between the studied observables will be analysed in detail. Finally, the EFT matching to a general Leptoquark parametrisation will be carried out, along with a phenomenological analysis. The implications for specific models proposed in the recent literature to accommodate various Standard Model tensions will be studied.
The effect of water on the Fischer-Tropsch reaction mechanism and kinetics over bimetallic Co-based catalysts: Theoretical and experimental studies (MECHANISM)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Individual Fellowships (IF)-Global Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: Cyprus,United States
Call: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-GF) (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, 2015)
Start date: 2017-04-03
End date: 2020-04-02
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 253954.8
EU funding (EUR): 253954.8
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis is an industrial catalytic reaction for the production of cleaner transportation fuels (diesel, gasoline). Notably, the rising price of crude oil with the diminishing of the crude oil resources lead for actions towards a more sustainable energy system. FT synthesis converts synthesis gas (CO and H2) into long-chain hydrocarbons. The mixture of CO and H2 can be obtained from natural gas, coal and biomass. This proposal is timely for the applicant’s country, Cyprus, but also for the European Union, since a large amount of natural gas has been discovered in Cyprus. The main objective of this proposal is to deeply investigate the mechanism of FT reaction, which remains controversial using advanced experimental methods. In particular, this proposal seeks to provide a useful contribution to the state-of-the-art in the mechanistic role of water, of support structure and cluster size on the rate and selectivity of FT synthesis on bimetallic Co-based materials. The applicant will gather deep knowledge about existing computational methods (DFT calculations) within the UC Berkeley, and use these tools together with experimental studies on the mechanistic role of water on the FT reaction. Also, during the outgoing phase the researcher will acquire new knowledge for the following techniques: TEM and gas chromatography. During the outgoing phase the applicant will use her skills towards the synthesis of bimetallic Co-based materials and to implement PXRD, BET, in situ DRIFTS and SSITKA-in situ infrared measurements. During the returning phase, the applicant will use her skills to perform a variety of transient experiments and complementary mechanistic studies using also the SSITKA-mass spectrometer technique (use of stable 13CO, D2 and D2O isotopes). The project will extend the skills of the applicant in a new field of computational heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and mechanistic studies of surface-catalyzed reactions.

Keywords: ft reaction mechanism,effect of water,dft calculations,ssitka in situ infrared,ssitka ms
Demonstration of Integrated Solution for offshore Tocardo Tidal power plants. (InToTidal)

Framework: Horizon 2020 — Industrial Leadership
Action type: Innovation actions
Countries involved: France,Netherlands,United Kingdom
Call: Fast Track to Innovation Pilot (H2020-FTIPilot-2016-1, 2016)
Start date: 2017-01-01
End date: 2019-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2891523.57
EU funding (EUR): 2000000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

Tocardo International has in the past ten years developed a technology for tidal turbines for generating tidal power from flowing water. For offshore application, integrated tidal system are needed that require low upfront investments (CAPEX), have low maintenance and operation costs (OPEX) and produce large amount of kWh. Tocardo International has developed an solution which fulfils these requirements. The objective of the InToTidal project is to execute the last step of the develop and demonstration of an integrated and generic solution for offshore tidal energy production, making it ready for successful commercial business application. The system will be tested and demonstrated in this project, while the resulting system will be used for long term testing after the project. Tocardo formed a strong consortium with EMEC, Infremer and LEASK Marine to be able to make this project a success. With a large market potential and strong competitive position, Tocardo is able to grow into a strong and powerful company with annual turnover of more than 180 Mio Euro per year within 3 years (providing work to 60 own employed FTE’s in 2020) and growing towards a 1,0 Billion euro turnover in 2025 providing jobs for 600 own personnel in 2025 as well as >1000 jobs in the supply chain.

Keywords: ocean energy,tidal power,demonstration