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Chemistry in the Confinement of Protein Cages (PROTCAGE)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

Protein cages appear to be common structures in biology, found in viruses but also in organelle-like containers discovered in bacteria. In this proposed program I aim to study chemical processes in nano-sized protein cages as mimics of bacterial organelles and to increase the general understanding of chemistry in confinement.Towards this goal we will investigate the controlled in vivo loading of b ...
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Topological Josephson devices as a novel platform for creating and controlling non-Abelian anyons (TOPOTRONICS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Surprisingly, in two-dimensional systems quasi-particles may exist that are neither fermions nor bosons. When these particles are interchanged, their joint quantum mechanical wave function is predicted to pick up any phase in between 0 (as for bosons) and pi (as for fermions), hence the name anyons.Even more intriguing is the class of non-Abelian anyons where interchange of particles completely ch ...
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Nanomedicine for target-specific imaging and treatment of atherosclerosis: development and initial clinical feasibility (NanoAthero)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

NanoAthero aims to have demonstration of initial clinical feasibility of nanosystems for targeted imaging and treatment of advanced atherosclerotic disease in humans. The nanosystems are assemblies of following components: nanocarrier, targeting, imaging agent/drug. They have proven safety records, and strong preliminary in vitro and in vivo proofs of efficacy are available. Partners have patented ...
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Multi-product Integrated bioRefinery of Algae: from Carbon dioxide and Light Energy to high-value Specialties (MIRACLES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Microalgae are a promising feedstock for sustainable supply of commodities and specialties for food and non-food products. Despite this potential the implementation is still limited which is mainly due to unfavourable economics. Major bottlenecks are the lack of available biomass at acceptable costs and the absence of appropriate biorefinery technologies. The 4-year MIRACLES project aims to resolv ...
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Bedside monitoring of infection based on exhaled breath (BreathDx)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Molecular analysis of exhaled breath is a new frontier in medical testing with an enormous potential for monitoring respiratory disease.Breath tests are non-invasive and require minimal patient effort. This makes them applicable in a wide range of settings varying from theintensive care unit (ICU) to home. Respiratory infections are the primary cause of death in ICU. More than half of the patients ...
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Stem-cell based therapy for kidney repair (STELLAR)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects 8% of the European population and ultimately results in renal failure due to progressive fibrosis. CDK carries a high mortality risk and the number of affected people rises, increasing the demand on renal replacement therapies while the number of available donor organs stays stable.The STELLAR consortium proposes to develop an alternative to renal replacement ...
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Photo-Engineered Helices in Chiral Liquid Crystals (PHELIX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Supramolecular helices are a striking expression of chirality which is found at every level of biological materials, from plant cell walls to bones. Helical biomaterials formed out of equilibrium display multiple length scales, adaptation of structure to function and responsiveness to changing environments, a unique set of features that constitutes a fascinating source of inspiration for materials ...
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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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Graded Membranes for Energy Efficient New Generation Carbon Capture Process (GREEN-CC)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Major sources for human made CO2 emissions comprise the energy and the industrial sector including cement production. One of the most appropriate concepts to capture CO2 from such point sources is the oxyfuel combustion. The main energy demand for this method results from the O2 generation, which is usually done by air liquefaction. This energy demand can substantially be lowered using thermally i ...
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Transport at the microscopic interface (TRAM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The research objective is to study and model membrane separation processes at the microscopic scale. I propose to exploit microfluidic platforms that contain a certain membrane separation challenge to be studied; i.e. biofouling, overlimiting current, and concentration polarization. Each challenge will be the topic for an individual PhD student.
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Rapid Prototyping of Custom-Made Bone-Forming Tissue Engineering Constructs (RAPIDOS)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

"In cranio-maxillofacial surgery, large blow-out orbital floor fractures have still mitigated outcomes and improved scaffold solutions are needed. The reconstruction of large bone defects in proximal femur or proximal tibia in orthopaedic surgery is also an enormous challenge due to the requirements for both complex shape and partial load bearing ability. This is the goal of this European and Chin ...
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Enhanced European Coordination for Accelerator Research & Development (EUCARD-2)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

Research accelerators are facing important challenges that must be addressed in the years to come: existing infrastructures are stretched to all performance frontiers, new world-class facilities on the ESFRI roadmap are starting or nearing completion, and strategic decisions are needed for future accelerators and major upgrades in Europe.While current projects concentrate on their specific objecti ...
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Printed microfluidic counting chambers for low-cost point-of-care diagnostics (INSTANTCOUNT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

"The goal of ""InstantCount"" is to develop low-cost point-of-care blood tests based on microfluidic counting chambers and image cytometry (InstantCount tests) for use in challenging environments, e.g. remote areas in developing countries.Preliminary work on CD4 counting (measuring the concentration of helper T-cells in blood in order to diagnose the progression of an HIV infection) demonstrates t ...
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Non-Radioactive Molecular Imaging-Driven Drug Development in Oncology (OnQview)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Fortunately an abundance of cancer drugs are becoming available; the challenge now is to select the most promising. Integrated cancer research and biomarker-driven adaptive and hypothesis-testing clinical trials are imperative. Many tumor characteristics can now be visualized simultaneously, but the necessary tracers have hardly been explored clinicall ...
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European High-performance Infrastructures in Turbulence (EUHIT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Advances in key economical and societal issues facing Europe, like transport, energy generation, climate change, or industrial, environmental and geophysical mixing processes are obstructed by the lack of understanding of turbulence. To date, models fail to explain many fundamental features of turbulence, from boundary layers and particle transport, to heat transport and turbulence in complex and ...
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Guiding Light through Disorder in Adaptive Photonic Resonator Arrays (PHAROS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Planar photonic crystals are dielectric nanostructures that are pursued worldwide as a platform for integrated nanophotonic circuits. Such circuits will process signals coded in light and will consist of thousands of basic components such as resonant nanocavities. At present, unavoidable nanometer-scale disorder makes such large-scale integration impossible. Disorder causes the resonances of the n ...
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Production of Cyclic Carbonates from CO2 using Renewable Feedstocks (CYCLICCO2R)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The concept of CyclicCO2R is to create a process that removes the dependency on fossil fuel and increases the energy efficiency to create a net CO2 uptake in the production of cyclic carbonates. This objective will be reached by basing the process on the use of renewables and CO2 in the production of cyclic carbonates. Two routes will be explored: 1) production of glycerol carbonate methacrylate f ...
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Sustainable fuel production by aqueous phase reforming – understanding catalysis and hydrothermal stability of carbon supported noble metals (SUSFUELCAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Biomass conversion is of high priority for sustainable fuel production, to reduce the reliance of Europe on fossil fuel production and to provide environmentally friendly energy. Aqueous phase reforming (APR) is one of the most promising, competitive ways for the production of liquid and gaseous fuels from biomass, since it is low energy consuming. APR enables processing of wet biomass resources w ...
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Training network for developing innovative (bio)artificial devices for treatment of kidney and liver disease (BIOART)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Renal and liver diseases are global public health problems, with the incidences of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and end-stage liver disease (ESLD) rising annually. Due to the lack of donor kidneys, most of ESRD patients depend on dialysis treatment using either an artificial kidney or the peritoneal membrane. Both modes are inefficient in removing uremic waste molecules and inadequately remove e ...
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Chatting with Neurons: A novel approach to the study of neurophysiologic responses of neuronal tissue in vitro, combining nanotechnology, tissue engineering, microfluidics and neuroelectrophysiology (MESOTAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Laboratory-on-a-Chip technology was introduced in this field. To avoid the complexity of an animal model and to reduce the number of animals for pre-clinical research cell culture models are important. Here, the combination of microfluidics, tissue engineering and neuroelectrophysiology on MEA-chips is suggested. Because neuronal tissue on chip may act differently from the neurons in their natural ...
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Interfaces of Fluid Electrodes: New Conceptual Explorations (INFLUENCE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The project proposal InFluENCE aims at improving the fundamental understanding and control of interfaces of a battery type based on Li-ion and Na-ion active materials: semi solid flow batteries (SSFB). The fact that the case study will be a SSFB set-up instead of classic lithium ion batteries is an asset, given that the methods and techniques developed are generic and could as well be implemented ...
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Electrochemistry in fluidic nanodevices: From fundamentals to integrated sensor platforms (ECnano)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

I propose to explore the frontiers of electrochemistry at the nanometer scale by developing new experimental approaches based on lithographically fabricated fluidic nanodevices. This will allow groundbreaking experiments on a broad range of fundamental topics including double layer structure, screening in ionic liquids, nanoscale hydrodynamics and the dielectric response of single macromolecules. ...
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Circulating Tumor Cells TheRapeutic APheresis: a novel biotechnology enabling personalized therapy for all cancer patients (CTCtrap)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"Chemotherapy is slowly being supplemented by a new generation of drugs that recognize specific targets in or on cancer cells and has proven to be more effective with markedly fewer side effects. During the course of the disease alternative oncogenic signaling pathways take over inevitably leading to drug resistance. As a consequence renewed tumor analysis is required to redefine the optimal treat ...
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Safety of ACtinide Separation proceSSes (SACSESS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

"Nuclear power plays a key role in limiting EU’s greenhouse gases emissions, and makes an important contribution to improve European Union’s independence, security and diversity of energy supply. However, its social acceptance is closely linked to an enhanced safety in the management of long-lived radioactive waste contributing to resource efficiency and cost-effectiveness of this energy and ensur ...
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EUrope-Japan opening of LIMMS (EUJO-LIMMS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2016,

EUJO-LIMMS aims to reinforce research collaboration between Europe and Japan to tackle new challenges in micro and nano technologies. The strategy consists in opening the activity of an international laboratory, the Laboratory for Integrated Micro Mechatronic Systems (LIMMS), located in Tokyo, to European partners. The LIMMS is a research unit between CNRS and the Institute of Industrial Sciences ...
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Physics of liquid-vapor phase transition (PHYSBOIL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"Liquid-vapor phase transitions and boiling are omnipresent in science and technology, but, as far as basic understanding of the hydrodynamics, these phenomena remain ""terra incognita''. The objective of the proposed work is to achieve a fundamental understanding of the fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the liquid-vapor phase transition - in particular of boiling - both on a micro- and on a mac ...
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CERAMIC AND POLYMERIC MEMBRANE FOR WATER PURIFICATION OF HEAVY METAL AND HAZARDOUS ORGANIC COMPOUND (CERAMPOL)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

The main objective of the CERAMPOL project is to achieve a new generation of smart and low-fouling nanostructured membranes based on ceramic and polymeric materials with enhanced affinity to heavy metals and drugs. CERAMPOL will contribute in solving issues related to waste water in metallurgic and pharmaceutical industries/hospital respectively. Moreover, by reducing the concentration of highly t ...
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Stromal Cell- Immune Cell Interactions in Health and Disease (STROMA)

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

STROMA is an Initial Training Network promoting the study of stromal cell – immune system interactions during stroma development and function in health and disease. In STROMA we have bought together world leading experts from academia and industry in Europe to address the key scientific questions in this emerging field. STROMA will promote the training of three Experienced Researchers (ER) and s ...
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Novel Composite Oxides by Combinatorial Material Synthesis for Next Generation All-Oxide-Photovoltaics (ALLOXIDEPV)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The global market for photovoltaic (PV) cells that are converting sunlight into electricity almost doubled in 2010 to reach a massive 18.2 GW, nearly three times size of the market back in 2008. Crystalline silicon is the most common PV material today with a market share of more than 80%. New developments such as electrolyte based dye-sensitized solar cells as well as organic polymer cells have ex ...
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Improvement of MAterials with X-rays (IMAX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Local modifications of materials with X-ray beams have recently been shown feasible by the researcher of this application in exemplary high-Tc superconducting copper oxide materials. These modifications are not based on materials degradation by the creation of structural damage, but rely on ordering of defects such as oxygen vacancies and interstititals, which can even lead to materials improvemen ...
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Supramolecular Cell Manipulation (SUMOMAN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

Supramolecular chemistry and nanofabrication methods provide excellent prospect to construct reversible dynamic biological nanoplatforms employed for supramolecular cell manipulation (SUMOMAN) experiments. Making use of supramolecular chemistry is a rewarding task in developing functional materials and devices. Knowing the limitations involved in ordering proteins at different length scales will s ...
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Catalytic membrane Reactors based on New mAterials for C1-C4 valorization (CARENA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

"The objective of the CARENA project is to accelerate the introduction of membrane reactors into the European chemical industry by the development of novel material and processes for the conversions of alkanes and CO2 into valuable chemicals. In a future environment with higher cost of crude oil and of CO2, the European chemical industry can only remain competitive by radical innovation. Process i ...
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Dynamic Molecular Nanostructures (DYNAMOL)

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

The ITN DYNAMOL will establish a powerful new approach for the preparation of nanostructures based on dynamic covalent chemistry. This approach combines the advantages of covalent synthesis (robustness of bonds) with those of non-covalent synthesis (error correction, responsiveness) without any of the disadvantages. It therefore has the potential to provide unique solutions for several important c ...
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Explore the potentialities of multi-print chips for diagnostic research (MULTICHIP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"MULTICHIP production of a multiplexed microarrays provides an exciting business opportunity. MULTICHIP offers unique advantages in areas of large societal importance, such as public health, and environmental safety.Multiplexed microarrays, i.e. arrays with a high number of different biomolecules, are attractive for rapid screening such as early detection of cancer and farm animal diseases, and mu ...
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Magneto Caloritronics (MACALO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

MACALO has two main deliverables, one in software and one in hardware which form the core business of the two European high-tech companies in the consortium. The MACALO consortium consists of pioneers of MAgnetoCALOritronics who cover the complete chain from SME start-up company innovation in hardware and software, device simulation and fabrication, benchmark measurements, computational materials ...
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Needle-free injection with supersonic microjets (NeedleFree)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

When focusing a laser pulse in a liquid, a vapor bubble can instantaneously (< 1μs) be produced.We have generated such vapor bubbles in a liquid-filled coated micro-capillary (diameter≈ 50μm). Remarkably, in about one microsecond after vapor bubble formation, an ultra-high-speed, ultra-sharp, focused liquid micro-jet emerged out of the meniscus at the end of the micro-capillary.Even with laser pul ...
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Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation of the flow around an ultrasonically oscillating instrument (CFD Ultrasound)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

Irrigation of the root canal with antibacterial solutions is indispensable during root canal treatment in order to remove biofilm, tissue remnants and dentin debris from the root canal. Nonetheless, still 50% of the root canal treatments fail as a consequence of poor cleaning. Ultrasonic activation of the irrigant has been shown to dramatically increase cleaning efficiency. A full understanding of ...
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Network of Excellence for Biophotonics (PHOTONICS4LIFE)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Today Biophotonics is an emerging multidisciplinary research area, embracing all light-based technologies applied to the life sciences and medicine. Enhancing diagnosis, therapy and follow-up care, Biophotonics drives the trend towards personalized medicine and plays a crucial role in limiting health-care costs and appropriately addressing the accelerating challenges associated with population agi ...
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Multi-scale modelling of interfacial phenomena in acrylic adhesives undergoing deformation (MODIFY)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

"In soft nanostructured materials containing polymers (such as acrylic adhesives), interfaces pose specific challenges since they are usually diffuse and can transfer stress through chain entanglements. The equilibrium structure of soft polymer interfaces is well-known, but their mechanical strength remains poorly understood. Yet many new nanostructured materials contain internal interfaces and im ...
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