Biointegrable soft actuators alimented by metabolic energy

Project Information

INTEGRATE

Grant agreement ID: 101046333

DOI

10.3030/101046333

Project closed

EC signature date 9 February 2022

Start date 1 June 2022

End date 31 May 2026

Funded under

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Total cost

€ 1 698 750,00

EU contribution

€ 1 698 750,00

Coordinated by

VELTHA IVZW
Belgium

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Deliverables

Other (5)

Membrane-forming block-copolymers

Sinthesis of a library of block copolymers capable of forming membranes

First 3D printable building blocks

Stimuliresponsive polymergrafted colloidal particles that can be 3Dprinted

General protocol for the building block synthesis

A Synthetic protocol for preparing 3D-printable polymer-grafted colloial particles

Software 2

Open source software package that enables to predict thermodynamic properties (osmotic pressure, free energy, phase diagrams) for charged polymer-grafted colloidal rod and platelet systems

Software 1

Open source software package that enables to predict thermodynamic properties of polymer grafted platelet and rods osmotic pressure free energy phase diagrams

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website, Social media presence and electronic newsletters

Online launch of the project website creation of the social media accounts for the project and launch of yearly project newsletter

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Nafion membranes for power generation from physiologic ion gradients

Author(s): Carolina Pierucci, Lorenzo Paleari, James Baker, Christian C. M. Sproncken, Matilde Folkesson, Justus Paul Wesseler, Andela Vracar, Andrea Dodero, Francesca Nanni, José Augusto Berrocal, Michael Mayer, Alessandro Ianiro
Published in: RSC Applied Polymers, Issue 3, 2025, ISSN 2755-371X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.1039/D4LP00294F

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Author(s): Remco Tuinier; Anja Kuhnhold
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023, ISSN 1520-6106
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.08940

Large-area, self-healing block copolymer membranes for energy conversion

Author(s): Christian C. M. Sproncken; Peng Liu; Justin Monney; William S. Fall; Carolina Pierucci; Philip B. V. Scholten; Brian Van Bueren; Marcos Penedo; Georg Ernest Fantner; Henricus H. Wensink; Ullrich Steiner; Christoph Weder; Nico Bruns; Michael Mayer; Alessandro Ianiro
Published in: Nature, 2024, ISSN 2520-1131
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07481-2

Computational design of anisotropic nanocomposite actuators

Author(s): Alessandro Ianiro; José Augusto Berrocal; Remco Tuinier; Michael Mayer; Christoph Weder
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023, ISSN 1089-7690
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/5.0129105

Complex Smectic Phases in Polymer-Grafted Shape-Uniform Cellulose Nano-Crystals

Author(s): William S. Fall, Henricus H. Wensink
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 57, 2024, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.4c00205