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New Bio-ceramisation processes applied to vegetable hierarchical structures
Start date:2006-10-01
End date:2011-03-31
Project Acronym:TEM-PLANT
Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Anna |
ISTITUTO DI SCIENZA E TECNOLOGIA DEI MATERIALI CERAMICI- CNR - BIOMATERIALS LAB Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 ROMA ITALIA Region:LAZIO Roma |
| Tel:+39-054-6699757 | |
| Fax:+39-054-646381 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.cnr.it | Organization Type:Research |
Description
Objective:
TEM-PLANT project focuses on the development and application of breakthrough processes to transform plant-derived hierarchical structures into templates for the exploitation of innovative biomedical devices with smart anisotropic performances and advanced biomechanical characteristics, designed for bone and ligament substitution. Natural bio-structures usually have properties superior to those of analogous synthetically manufactured materials with similar phase compositions. The remarkable biomechanical properties of bone and ligament tissues depend on their hierarchic structure which is an organized assembly of structural units at increasing size levels. In fact, these structures are highly organized from the molecular to nano-, micro- and macro-scales, always in a hierarchical manner, with intricate but extremely functional architectures able to constantly adapt to ever changing mechanical needs.The TEM-PLANT project primary addresses the nano-biotechnologies area and will push the current boundaries of the state-of-the-art in production of hierarchical structured biomaterials. By combining biology, chemistry, materials science, nanotechnology and production technologies, new and complex plant transformation processes will be investigated to copy smart hierarchical structures existing in nature and to develop breakthrough biomaterials that could open the door to a whole new generation of biomedical applications for which no effective solution exists to date. Starting from suitably selected vegetal raw material, ceramization processes based on pyrolysis will be applied to produce carbon templates, which will be either infiltrated by silicon to produce inert SiC ceramic structures or exchanged by electrophoresis deposition to produce bioresobable ceramics. For ligament yielding two processes will be developed: pH-controlled and electrophoresis-controlled fibration to generate fibrous collagenous cords with high tensile strength and wear-resistance.
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Project Details
Start date:2006-10-01
End date:2011-03-31
Duration:54 months
Project Reference:33277
Project cost:3441654 EURO
Project Funding:2600000 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP6-NMP
Programme type:Sixth Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Using nature as model for new nanotechnology-based processes, Nanotechnologies and nanosciences, knowledge based multifunctional materials and new production processes and devices
Contract type:Specific Targeted Research Project
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Subject index:Industrial Manufacture, Materials Technology
Other Indexes:Nanotechnology
Results for this Project
| Final Report Summary - TEM-PLANT (New Bio-ceramisation processes applied to vegetable hierarchical structures) | 03/11/2011 |
Documents for this Project
Other participants
| Organization name:ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Maurilio |
IX ORTHOPAEDIC DEPARTMENT Via Zamboni 33 BOLOGNA ITALIA Region:EMILIA-ROMAGNA Bologna |
| Tel:+39-0516366505 | |
| Fax:+39-51583789 | |
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| URL:http://www.unibo.it | Organization Type:Education |
| Organization name:TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN | |
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Name:Nico A. J. M. |
DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Den Dolech 2 EINDHOVEN NEDERLAND Region:ZUID-NEDERLAND NOORD-BRABANT Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant |
| Tel:+31-402475870 | |
| Fax:+31-402451036 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.tue.nl | Organization Type:Education |
| Organization name:FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG | |
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Name:Frank |
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE / INSTITUTE OF GLASS AND CERAMICS GROUP BIOMATERIALS Schlossplatz 4 ERLANGEN DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN MITTELFRANKEN Erlangen, Kreisfreie Stadt |
| Tel:+49-9131-8525543 | |
| Fax:+49-9131-8525545 | |
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| URL:http://www.uni-erlangen.de | Organization Type:Education |
| Organization name:UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA | |
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Name:Julian |
DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA DE LA MATERIA CONDENSADA FACULTAD DE FÍSICA C/ San Fernando 4 SEVILLA ESPAÑA Region:SUR ANDALUCIA Sevilla |
| Tel:+34-954552894 | |
| Fax:+34-954612097 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.us.es | Organization Type:Education |
| Organization name:KOMPETENZZENTRUM HOLZ GMBH | |
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Name:Rupert |
DEPARTMENT OF MATERIAL SCIENCES AND PROCESS ENGINEERING Sankt Peter Strasse 25 LINZ ÖSTERREICH Region:WESTÖSTERREICH OBERÖSTERREICH Linz-Wels |
| Tel:+43-1476544271 | |
| Fax:+43-1476544295 | |
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| URL:http://www.wood-kplus.at | Organization Type:Research |
| Organization name:FIN-CERAMICA FAENZA SPA | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Roberta |
R&D DEPARTMENT VIA GRANAROLO 102 FAENZA ITALIA Region:EMILIA-ROMAGNA Ravenna |
| Tel:+39-0546-607311 | |
| Fax:+39-0546-607312 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.finceramica.it | Organization Type:Industry |
| Organization name:LABORATOIRE D'EVALUATION DES MATÉRIELS IMPLANTABLES | |
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Name:Harmand |
LEMI (LABORATOIRE D'EVALUATION DES MATÉRIELS IMPLANTABLES) Technopole Montesquieu MARTILLAC FRANCE Region:SUD-OUEST AQUITAINE Gironde |
| Tel:+33-556649000 | |
| Fax:+33-556649002 | |
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| URL: | Organization Type:Research |
| Organization name:LULEAA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET | |
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Name:Kristiina |
LTU SKELLEFTEA, DIVISION OF WOOD AND BIONANOCOMPOSITES University Campus LULEA SVERIGE Region: |
| Tel:+46-910585371 | |
| Fax:+46-910585399 | |
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| URL:http://www.ltu.se | Organization Type: |
Record control number:80025
