BioNanoCarb · Ordered Nanoporous Carbon Architectures from Biobased Building Blocks
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2022-10-01 → 2024-09-30
- EU contribution
- €191,760
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF
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Results in brief
Ordered Nanoporous Carbon Architectures from Biobased Building Blocks
The synthesis and creation of mostly manmade petroleum-based materials in the modern age, associated with increased carbon dioxide emission and environmental pollution, pushed humankind into a new era in our history, the “Anthropocene”, described by climate change and depletion of fossil fuels along with irreversible geological changes. Worldwide efforts started to change the odds by implementing and intensifying sustainable development strategies aimed at utilising carbon neutral or even carbon negative renewable energy- and resource-based technologies. In the project "BioNanoCarb" we look at more sustainable, environmentally benign technologies to produce state-of-the-art nanoporous carbons, a type of material that is expected to be an important element in future high-performing energy storage systems and water purification devices. Therefore, our project contributes directly to our efforts of "responsible consumption and production", identified as one of the sustainable development goals (SDGs, SDG 12) of the United Nations (UN). These materials will be important in realizing affordable and clean energy (SDG 7) through more efficient energy-storage devices that can better support intermittent renewable energy systems. Furthermore, the structures at the focus of our project have potential for applications in more efficient water treatment systems, contributing to our efforts for clean water (SDG 6).
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Project objective
Ordered nanoporous carbons are gaining appreciable interest in several green technology applications (efficient charge storage, metal-free carbocatalysis). Nevertheless, at present they can only be fabricated using fossil fuel-based building blocks, through energy-intensive processes with large ecological footprint, and with potential environmental pollution. The overall aim of this project is to provide more sustainable alternatives to these fossil fuel-derived materials by fabricating ordered nanoporous carbons from biobased constituents. Our project will focus on studying biobased polymer-biobased surfactant supramolecular assemblies (objective 1) to develop a soft-templating system using only biobased building blocks (objective 2), for obtaining various ordered nanoporous carbons (objective 3) and apply them in charge storage systems (supercapacitors, objective 4), and for metal-free carbocatalysis (advanced oxidation process, objective 5). Our goal is to have control on the nanoarchitecture and understand structure-performance relationships in applications in order to obtain cutting-edge, high-performance materials for advanced devices. Our novel bottom-up approach will give the first biobased soft-templating method to make ordered nanoporous carbons, and is expected to open up new research directions for sustainable material solutions. This project will provide materials and processes with reduced ecological footprint over existing products and technologies, contributing to a sustainable economic growth and to the realisation of a resilient society.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenCoordinatorBelgium
- University of Cincinnati · CincinnatiUnited States
Links
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- DOI: 10.3030/101062130
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5f8ee7afb&appId=PPGMS
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5faf55268&appId=PPGMS
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