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Life Integrated Process for the Enzymatic Splitting of triglycerides (LIPES)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

The overall purpose of the proposal LIPES, Life Integrated Process for the Enzymatic Splitting of triglycerides, is dedicated to the first market replication of greener and healthier fatty acids motivated by an increasing market demand and driven by stricter legislation. LIPES aims to perform the scale-up to pre-industrial level of a new environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional and ...
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Graphene-based disruptive technologies (GrapheneCore1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CS ...
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Supramolecular assembly of polymeric structures: a novel route to enhance soft materials properties (SUPOLEN)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

"Supramolecular polymeric assemblies represent an emerging, promising class of systems with superior versatility compared to their covalent polymeric counterparts. They offer exciting new opportunities for stimuli-responsive structures exhibiting reversible tunable properties, with applications in foodstuff, coatings , cost-efficient processes or biomedical areas. To explore their potential and de ...
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Multi-disciplinary training environment for next generation hydrogel-based smart bio-interactive materials (NeoGel)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Smart resorbable hydrogels will play a key role in next-generation biomedicine, for instance as platform materials for tissue engineering. As these materials have potential to address a wide range of medical conditions, significant growth for the biomedical materials industry is forecast. To explore this opportunity and exploit the potential, highly-qualified and well-trained biomaterials experts ...
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Enhanced Lightweight Design (ENLIGHT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Lightweight materials such as carbon-fibre reinforced plastics have been used up to now mostly in high-performance cars with relatively high cost & low production volumes. Instead the electric cars of the future require lightweight solutions that not only enable specific design requirements to be respected but are also cost effective and sustainable throughout their lifecycle.ENLIGHT aims to accel ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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REnewable FunctIoNal matErial – Training material scientists for a sustainable polymer industry (REFINE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"The plastic industry contributes around 23% of the total sales in the European chemical industry but is traditionally heavily reliant on petrochemicals for their raw material, additives and reaction media (solvents). REFINE will develop sustainable routes to functional materials (green routes) for various polymer/plastic applications. The network will make use of integrated approaches combining g ...
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Peptide-based Nanoparticles as Ocular Drug Delivery Vehicles (PANOPTES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

... vitro and in vivo assessment of nanoparticle biocompatibility and functionality (Helsinki, Madrid & Tübingen) and polymer synthesis, processing and industrial validation of manufacturing processes (DSM). Polyester micro- and nanoparticles that have been proposed for ocular drug delivery have several major drawbacks: acidic degradation products cause inflammation; drug release is difficult to cont ...
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Methylaluminoxane (MAO) activators in the molecular polyolefin factory (MAO-ROBOTS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

"MAO-ROBOTS address the aspects of call NMP2009-1.2-2 molecular factory. We aim to perform basic research on nano-to-micro-sized systems used for industrial polyolefin (PO) production in order to “develop sustainable processes for nano-structuring for specific applications which should present high potential industrial and/or market relevance.” Molecular PO factories consist of methylaluminoxane b ...
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