Descrizione del progetto
Rendere più verdi le soluzioni energetiche con carbonio biologico
Le strutture grafitiche di carbonio sono materiali importanti per le tecnologie che definiranno il nostro futuro sostenibile (ad esempio, accumulo e conversione dell’energia efficienti). Sfortunatamente, queste sono per lo più prodotte da risorse non rinnovabili a base di petrolio. Quando si tratta di raccogliere carbonio per l’uso in nuovi materiali di carbonio nanoporosi ordinati per applicazioni in dispositivi ecologici, ha quindi senso volgere lo sguardo verso elementi costitutivi di origine biologica come alternative sostenibili alle materie prime derivate dai combustibili fossili. La biomassa intorno a noi viene prodotta in tempi molto brevi rispetto ai combustibili fossili. Con il sostegno del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto BioNanoCarb perseguirà questo approccio con l’obiettivo di aprire la strada alla progettazione razionale di assemblaggi supramolecolari che integrano composti di origine biologica.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinatore
3000 Leuven
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