Objective
The project joins together two most common and apparently well-studied elements on the Earth - silicon and oxygen. Both are most important for human life: oxygen mediates biochemical reactions while silicon is the most important technological material. T he project claims to explore a new type of interaction among these elements, though in their artificially created forms (silicon converted into nano-Si - with small Si clusters connected into highly porous network, and oxygen excited into highly reactiv e singlet state). Project will address fundamental issues of physics (optics of nano-structured semiconductors, energy transfer between molecules), chemistry (photo-chemical reactions mediated by singlet oxygen with molecules, e lectrochemistry of porous semiconductors, surface reactions), biology (photo-oxidation of bio-molecules) and medicine ( photo-stimulated apoptosis of living cells). Therefore, it will contribute to the advancement in these fields of science and will ensure contin uous break-through innovations in important issues of human well-being. Technological frontiers to explore are application of highly reactive singlet form of oxygen molecule generated by nano-Si in a variety of fields vital for the improvement of hu man life: curing of severe diseases, fine organic synthesis, protection of environment. Specific Scientific and Technological Objectives of the project include: 1.Research and development of new process of singlet oxygen generation employing nano-Si as sensitizer; 2 Development of efficient and safe photo-sensitizers based on nano-Si; 3. Exploration of the possibilities to use nano-Si photo-sensitizers in Photo-dynamic therapy of cancer; 4. Application of nano-Si photo-sensitizers in organic synth esis and Biological applications Project explores two fundamental discoveries made by consortium members: generation of singlete oxygen by nano-Si and its biodegradability.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences physical sciences condensed matter physics quasiparticles
- natural sciences chemical sciences physical chemistry photochemistry
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry hydrocarbons
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics semiconductivity
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry metalloids
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Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2003-NMP-TI-3-MAIN
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Funding Scheme
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Coordinator
VALENCIA
Spain
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