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BEEP · Bio-inspired and bionic materials for enhanced photosynthesis

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период
2020-01-01 → 2023-12-31
Финансиране от ЕС
2 531 961 €
Участници
10
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MSCA-ITN

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Накратко на български

Морските организми, като водорасли и корали, се изучават, за да се разбере как управляват светлината за фотосинтеза. Тези знания помагат за създаването на нови материали за по-ефективно улавяне и съхранение на слънчева енергия.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Bio-inspired and bionic materials for enhanced photosynthesis

The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of our planet is about 12 000 times larger than the global human energy demand. However, despite huge efforts in the scientific community to harvest and efficiently exploit sunlight as a renewable and green energy source, efficient light energy harvesting remains one of the main challenges for humanity. The scientists of this ITN have turned to the natural world for inspiration to tackle this issue. In millions of years of evolution, nature has indeed come up with ingenious solutions to build strong structures, harvest solar energy and produce iridescent colours. In the marine world, for instance, a number of marine phototrophs have evolved stunning light management strategies for efficient light harvesting and protection in their compact and highly pigmented spatial structures, and have adapted to operate over a range of habitats and different light regimes, fluctuating from high solar irradiance to shaded conditions. Understanding light-management inspired by marine phototroph organisms presents a tremendous potential for the development of innovative green technologies and designs that await exploitation by the scientific community and the material producing industry. By bringing together biologists, physicists, chemists and material engineers, BEEP aimed to explore how these organisms could inspire us to generate new, greener photonic materials and technologies for an optimised solar energy harvesting and storage. BEEP main objectives were the following: i) To unravel the fundamental strategies of light management in marine phototrophs including macroalgae, corals with symbiotic microalgae and bacteria, as well as sea-slugs with sequestered chloroplasts; ii) To apply such knowledge for creating novel artificial and bionic photosynthetic systems.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The amount of solar energy that reaches the earth’s surface exceeds the global energy demand of humans by about 12 000times. However, despite huge efforts in the scientific community, harvesting and efficient exploitation of this renewable andgreen energy source is still a major challenge for humanity. In the marine world, photosynthetic bacteria and algae(microalgae and seaweeds) are the predominant primary producers and many different organisms (e.g. corals, giant clamsor photosynthetic sea slugs) cooperate synergistically with algae and bacteria for optimal solar light harvesting andconversion into chemically bound energy for biosynthesis and growth.Inspired by such organisms, the “Bio-inspired and Bionic materials for enhanced photosynthesis (BEEP)” project aims totrain researchers in a truly interdisciplinary setting to develop novel bio-mimetic approaches for light management. BEEP’sspecific mission is to design and manufacture hybrid systems combining living organisms and artificial materials: Weenvision that by understanding the critical aspects of complex symbiotic interaction in marine organisms we will be able tocreate new bionic and bio-inspired system, such as more efficient bio-photoreactors. This truly interdisciplinary researchrequires an intersectorial approach by specialized and skilled scientists from different disciplines, combining expertise from marine biology (UCPH, UN, NHM), and microbiology (HOEKMINE) with expertise in optics and spectroscopy (UCAM, IIT,UCL), chemistry (UNISTRA, UNIBA, BP), and advanced microscopy (TESCAN). BEEP will kick-start an unprecedentedinterdisciplinary European research training effort in the emerging area of marine biomimetics with a concomitant strongemphasis on science outreach and exploitation.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз