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MULTIMAT · A multiscale approach towards mesostructured porous material design

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2016-03-01 → 2020-02-29
EU contribution
€3,293,103
Participants
10
Scheme
MSCA-ITN-ETN

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Results in brief

A multiscale approach towards mesostructured porous material design

"Our contemporary society is endangered by upcoming challenges such as drinking water shortages, deprivation of oil reserves and climate change. Advanced materials will form a major contribution towards addressing these issues as they can provide e.g. efficient filters for desalination, catalysts for efficient conversion of resources, affordable CO2 capturing devices, optimised insulating materials and more efficient fuel cells. Unfortunately, most current materials at hand for these applications are either elaborate and based on fossil-fuel or energy-intense raw materials and processes, or lack the combination of a highly defined and large porosity together with required (mechanical, chemical, thermal) robustness. MULTIMAT addressed (1) the industrial and societal need for affordable materials that have a highly defined and large porosity together with the required (mechanical, chemical and/or thermal) robustness for application in thermal insulation, catalysts, fuel cells and oil spill remediation and (2) the scientific need to better understand the mechanisms underlying the assembly of small building blocks into larger structures that are ordered hierarchically across multiple scales (""multiscale assembly""). Together this will contribute to achieving MULTIMAT's future aim: understanding and ultimately steering the bottom-up construction of materials with complex hierarchical structures. MULTIMAT’s overall objectives were to: - Generate objects with well-defined shapes from organic and inorganic components and use their colloidal self-organisation to produce hierarchical porous materials (BUILDING-BLOCK DESIGN) - Control the assembly of building blocks into novel high-performance mesostructured porous materials using directional forces and templates (DIRECTING COLLOIDAL ASSEMBLY), modelling approaches (MULTISCALE MODELLING) and advanced in situ analysis methods (IN-SITU ANALYSIS) - Provide a good understanding on mesoscopic structure-property relationships, with a focus on applications that require a combination of good mechanical properties and high porosity (PROPERTIES & FUNCTION)."

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Project objective

MULTIMAT addresses (1) the industrial and societal need for affordable materials that have a highly defined and large porosity together with the required (mechanical, chemical and/or thermal) robustness for application in thermal insulation, catalysts, fuel cells and oil spill remediation and (2) the scientific need to better understand the mechanisms underlying the assembly of small building blocks into larger structures that are ordered hierarchally across multiple scales (""multiscale assembly""). Together this will contribute to achieving MULTIMAT's future aim: Understanding and ultimately steering the bottom-up construction of materials with complex hierarchical structures. MULTIMAT will train a next generation of scientists (13 ESRs) able to master this complex design-and-assembly process. The MULTIMAT research activities include 1) the design and synthesis of building blocks with tailor made shapes and sizes, 2) their (co)-assembly into ordered structures with predefined mesoscale organisation, 3) the in-situ analysis of the development of morphology of structure during these processes, 4) the simulation of the structure formation from the molecular to the mesoscale level and the prediction of related physical properties, 5) the evaluation and testing of the properties and performance in selected technological applications. MULTIMAT brings together leading scientists from all relevant disciplines, and a large number of industrial partners, multinationals as well as SMEs. This strong involvement of industry clearly demonstrates the need for researchers educated in steering colloidal self-organisation. Direct outcomes of the project will include novel building blocks, (super-)porous materials with outstanding properties and novel tools for in situ imaging and molecular modelling.""

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · EindhovenCoordinatorNetherlands
  • CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB · GoteborgSweden
  • INM - LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER NEUE MATERIALIEN GEMEINNUETZIGE GMBH · SaarbrueckenGermany
  • NANOLYTICS GMBH · POTSDAMGermany
  • Nouryon PULP AND PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS AB · BOHUSSweden
  • SEPAREX SAS · ChampigneullesCity levelFrance
  • STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET · StockholmSweden
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · ManchesterUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ · KonstanzGermany
  • UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · UtrechtNetherlands

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