Project description
Sustainable nanoreactors for environmental and medical innovation
Pollution, medical waste, and unsustainable production are some of the biggest challenges today. While nanomaterials and catalysts can help to solve these problems, they can be costly, wasteful, or harmful to the environment. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the NANOEMCA project, which involves eight academic, and eight non-academic partners, is developing new ‘confined nanoreactors’. These tiny, porous materials are designed with high surface areas and greener methods of production. These versatile structures could play a role in cleaning up pollution, improving food packaging, advancing medical treatments, and driving more efficient industrial processes. Most importantly, the project is training young researchers, sharing expertise across borders, and measuring environmental and economic impacts to ensure the innovations deliver real-world, sustainable benefits.
Objective
The aim of the “Confined Nanoreactors for Environmental, Medical and Catalytic Applications (NANOEMCA)” project is to develop sustainable collaborative exchange between the Consortium Organisations, based in Europe and beyond, from the academic and non-academic sectors. One multidisciplinary and complementary team with competences in nanomaterials, chemical engineering, materials characterization, analytical chemistry, environmental engineering, catalysis, sensing, medicine, microbiology, biotechnology, physics, economy, life cycle assessment, electronic engineering, intelligent manufacturing will perform research, training and supervising of the researchers at any career stage. Free and transition metal-loaded mesoporous organosilica confined nanoreactors with different morphologies, high surface area and relevant applications will be designed and synthetized by four approaches: i) template using surfactants as structure-directing agents and silsesquioxane type (EtO)3Si–R–Si-(OEt)3, ii) post-grafting functionalization of mesopores surface, iii) photo-induced synthesis based photo-crosslinking sol-gel acrylic matrix and silsesquioxane type (EtO)3Si–R–Si-(OEt)3; iv) green synthesis of metal nanoparticles using PMOs nanoreactors. The new nanoreactors will be assessed for advanced applications in environment remediation, pollution control, catalysis, food packaging, biomedicine and biotechnology. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) study of the synthesis will be developed to evaluate their environmental and economic impact. Researchers at any career stage, from PhD students to postdoctoral researchers, as well as experienced researchers will be involved in research, innovation and training activities. The exchanged staff will benefit from new knowledge, skills and career development perspectives. The participating institutions will increase their research and innovation capacities in the field of nanomaterials with advanced applications.
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering
- natural sciences chemical sciences catalysis
- engineering and technology chemical engineering
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies food technology food packaging
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01
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060042 BUCURESTI
Romania
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