FUNMAT · Functionally Metalized Nanocellulose For Future Smart Materials
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2020-12-01 → 2024-12-18
- EU contribution
- €259,399
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Functionally Metalized Nanocellulose For Future Smart Materials
Sustainability and functionality are the main drivers of our today and future materials. Indeed, we are living a century of increased awareness on environmental impacts and in the same time the amplification of functional materials requirement to fulfil innovative designs of future multitasks objects. Scarcity of strategic metal resources is an additional global challenge facing many industries. Nanotechnology is identified as Key Enabling Technology (KET) for development and modernization of European industries. Designing at the nanoscale is a promising and challenging strategy to innovate new building-block materials with improved properties and functionalities. FUNMAT project proposed by Dr. Azizi Samir My Ahmed Said and hosted at IMDEA- Spain and INPG-France, has set the exciting objective to build a new hybrid building blocks using a renewable nanomaterial and an elegant chemistry. The contract of Samir Azizi has finished on the 30/11/2024.
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Project objective
Designing at the nanoscale is a promising and challenging strategy to innovate new building-block materials with improved properties and functionalities. This is a critical point to answer the increased demand of multifunctional materials. Nanocellulose is a functional structured nanomaterial engineered by nature long time before us. It maintains the optimal structural integrity in plant cell wall allowing plants to play their vital role in the ecosystem. Thanks to their high aspect ratio, high surface area and their 150 GPa, nanocellulose could be considered as a revolutionary renewable nano-building block material. Nanocellulose was principally investigated and used as bio-based filler in polymer nanocomposites. One of challenges in the developments of nanocellulose will be to make these naturally nano-structured objects functional with new properties allowing the design and engineering of smarter materials. Our proposal aims to bring nanocellulose to novel frontiers by functionalization of their large surface area and designing new innovative hybrids at the nanoscale. Main objectives of our project are: 1) setting up conditions for nanocellulose surface metallization. 2) Characterizing properties of these innovative nanohybrides and 3) Designing new functional materials based on metalized nanocellulose. The project is an opportunity to the fellow to restart his career in the exciting field of nanocellulose.
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