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H2020Doctoral network2019–2024

CHARISMA · ENTREPRENEURING CHEMICAL IRREVERSIBILITY TO PROTOTYPE RESPONSIVE SMART LABELS

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2019-04-01 → 2024-01-31
EU contribution
€2,374,216
Participants
9
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

ENTREPRENEURING CHEMICAL IRREVERSIBILITY TO PROTOTYPE RESPONSIVE SMART LABELS

The CHARISMA project aimed to address the underdeveloped state of smart label technology, which relied on cumbersome apparatuses requiring separate read-out devices. The project focused on developing irreversible smart labels that were easy to read and could not be counterfeited. The development of error-safe devices that could be read without external equipment was of significant societal impact. These smart labels had potential applications in various fields, offering enhanced anti-counterfeit possibilities and improving efficiency in tasks such as logistics and product authentication. The main objective of the CHARISMA project was to train 9 ESRs in chemistry, electrochemistry, materials science, and device engineering. The goal was to develop irreversible, sustainable, and economically advantageous smart labels that enabled direct human read-out. Through close collaboration between academia and industry, the project aimed to create thin, flexible, and mass-producible smart labels that fulfilled these objectives. Additionally, the project aimed to increase the employability of the ESRs in both academic and industrial sectors by providing specialized training in innovative fields such as printed electronics, smart labels, display technologies and chemical sustainability.

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Project objective

In a world in which sensors are multiplying to give information to people, a need to represent these messages in an appealing and unequivocal way appears as one of the new challenges in information and communication technologies. It is with this idea, that the CHARISMA Industrial Doctoral Training elevates the concept of applied irreversibility to displays, empowering packaging industries with the tools and innovative advanced materials to engineer smart labels. CHARISMA develops printable smart labels that, capitalizing on a sensor responsive to an external stimulus (e.g., temperature), will allow the irreversible colour change of a chromogenic displaying unit. All this is connected through a circuitry that, through a powered capacitor or an OPV device, can allow the stimulus response and trigger a chromogenic (e.g., electrochromic) switching event. Once the signal is transmitted to the chromogenic display, the display will turn colour (e.g., into black), and this state cannot be converted back. The CHARISMA smart labels are thin and flexible taking virtually no space, and thus printable on any surface. The project brings together 9 ESRs in a strong interdisciplinary consortium of five beneficiaries, industry and research balanced, with state-of-the-art backgrounds in synthetic chemistry, printing, electronics system integration, and complete chromogenic solutions. This is complemented with the commitment of four non-academic partner organizations. The CHARISMA’s ESRs will be exposed to industrial training program on smart labels, in which theoretical and practical research schemes in device engineering and innovation are integrated with topical themes and methods imported from chemistry, physics and business.

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union