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BeMAGIC · Magnetoelectrics Beyond 2020: A Training Programme on Energy-Efficient Magnetoelectric Nanomaterials for Advanced Information and Healthcare Technologies

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2019-09-01 → 2024-02-29
EU contribution
€3,954,492
Participants
15
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

Magnetoelectrics Beyond 2020: A Training Programme on Energy-Efficient Magnetoelectric Nanomaterials for Advanced Information and Healthcare Technologies

BeMAGIC is a joint academic-industrial inter-disciplinary initiative which has the primary goal of training 15 young researchers in the utilization of magnetoelectric (ME) nanomaterials to face important challenges in strategic sectors of modern society: information technologies and health. BeMAGIC brings together a balanced combination of Research Teams and Private Companies from different disciplines (i.e. Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering and Biotechnology) to ensure the success of the Training activities. BeMAGIC encompasses the following technological domains and specific applications, in which the combined action of electric and magnetic fields can lead to huge advances in the short/medium-term future: • Information technologies: magnetic storage, spintronic devices, magnonics. • Healthcare technologies: wireless, electric-field assisted biomedical therapies. The main objectives of the BeMAGIC project are: (i) to design/screen suitable ME materials using first-principles calculations, (ii) to optimize the synthesis/growth conditions for the various types of investigated ME nanomaterials, (iii) to correlate the ME response with the microstructure/composition of the target materials, (iv) to develop new classes of energy-efficient spintronic/magnonic devices using ME nanomaterials, (v) to implement anti-hacking data systems using multiferroics and magneto-ionic effects, ant (vi) to investigate new biomedical therapies based on ME stimulation. The project has delivered a wide range of ME materials, from nanoparticles to complex multilayered thin films and nanocomposite heterostructures, which have led to significantly enhanced properties compared to the state of the art, and new applications of magneto-electricity in energy-efficient magnetic storage systems, spin-wave devices, neuromorphic computing, magnetoelectric drug delivery, etc.). These results have constituted the work of several PhD Theses, and have been presented in prestigious international conferences on magnetism, such as MMM or Intermag. The quantity and quality of the publications resulting from BeMAGIC studies constitute a clear evidence of the impact of the project in the scientific community.

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Project objective

BeMAGIC is a highly interdisciplinary venture whose primary aim is the training of young researchers in the utilization of magnetoelectric (ME) nanomaterials to face important societal challenges linked to energy-efficiency, data security and health. The Network encompasses the design, synthesis, characterization and integration of ME materials into a variety of applications that share in common the combined action of electric and magnetic fields: advanced security systems, low-power data storage, spintronic/magnonic devices, electric-field assisted anti-cancer drug delivery, cell electrofusion and deep neural stimulation. Studying all these technological domains in parallel will accelerate progress in each individual field because there are a number of cross-cutting synergistic challenges and potential cross-fertilization outcomes. Various disciplines (Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Bioelectronics, Biomedicine) converge together in BeMAGIC to provide a holistic approach to fulfil the proposed goals. Special efforts will be devoted to bridge basic science with system prototyping and market exploitation, covering several of the Key Enabling Technologies of the Horizon 2020 Programme. The Consortium brings together 13 Beneficiaries and 11 Partner Organizations, including 8 private companies, from 11 EU Member States. The partnership is diverse and gender-balanced (6 Beneficiary Scientists-in-Charge are female). The complementarities among partners will render a high-level, multifaceted educational programme in which world-class research will be combined with unique training opportunities in soft skills (career planning, dissemination, entrepreneurship, intellectual property rights, management, etc.). A continuous peer-mentoring of all activities will be performed in a pro-active manner to ensure that BeMAGIC generates highly-qualified specialists able to face future professional challenges, either in Academia or Industry, in a proficient manner.

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Participants

  • UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · Cerdanyola Del VallesCoordinatorSpain
  • AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · EspooFinland
  • CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · RomaItaly
  • EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · ZuerichSwitzerland
  • FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE NANOCIENCIA I NANOTECNOLOGIA · BELLATERRA (BARCELONA)Spain
  • G.TEC MEDICAL ENGINEERING GMBH · SCHIEDLBERGAustria
  • GUGER TECHNOLOGIES OG · GrazAustria
  • ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA · TorinoItaly
  • KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE · KarlsruheGermany
  • LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FUR FESTKORPER UND WERKSTOFFORSCHUNG DRESDEN EV · DresdenGermany
  • SPIN-ION TECHNOLOGIES · PalaiseauFrance
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET CHEMNITZ · ChemnitzGermany
  • THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · CAMBRIDGEUnited Kingdom
  • TTS, S.R.O. · Praha 4Czechia
  • VOXALYTIC GMBH · KarlsruheGermany

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