Cel The objective is to develop a robust multifunctional framework/probe for capturing the evolution of deformation and failure in a variety of processes at the micro-nano transition regime. An interdisciplinary approach will be pursued based on fundamental theory and experiment, in conjunction with multiscale simulations for micro/nanotechnology applications. The approach is unconventional as it ventures to extend continuum mechanics down to the micro/nano regime and verify this through nanoindentation and atomic force microscopy techniques. It is also unique as the new phenomenology introduced for establishing this extension (higher order gradients accounting for microscopic processes and interfacial energy terms accounting for nanoscopic phenomena) will be substantiated through hybrid (ab initio-atomistic-defect-finite element) simulations. The framework will be employed to consider fracture and size effects in a number of micro-nano scale transition configurations ranging from nanograined aggregates and nanolayered structures to nanotubes and micropillars, and from Li-ion battery electrodes to bioactive interfaces. Other micro/nano objects such as quantum dots, nanowires and NEMS/MEMS devices, as well as biomolecular microcrystalline membranes leading to living cell division will be considered. In a sense this “scale” transition theory is reminiscent in scope to Landau’s “phase” transition theory where a variety of different physical phenomena can be treated within a common framework. This optimism stems from the PI’s previous success with this approach, as well as Smalley’s remark that the “laws of continuum mechanics are amazingly robust for treating even intrinsically discrete objects only a few atoms in diameter”. A good mix of young researchers and mature scholars will be employed, thus connecting people and ideas through joint publications and scholarly activities in a critical area of fundamental and applied research. Dziedzina nauki natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistryelectric batteriesengineering and technologynanotechnologynatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsmicroscopynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputational sciencemultiphysicssocial scienceslaw Słowa kluczowe constitutive equations nanoindentation nanomechanics nanotechnology size effects Program(-y) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Temat(-y) ERC-SG-PE6 - ERC Starting Grant - Computer science and informatics Zaproszenie do składania wniosków ERC-2007-StG Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Instytucja przyjmująca ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS Wkład UE € 922 286,70 Adres KEDEA BUILDING, TRITIS SEPTEMVRIOU, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS 546 36 THESSALONIKI Grecja Zobacz na mapie Region Βόρεια Ελλάδα Κεντρική Μακεδονία Θεσσαλονίκη Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kierownik naukowy Aikaterini Aifanti (Dr.) Kontakt administracyjny Georgia Petridou (Ms.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych Beneficjenci (3) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS Grecja Wkład UE € 922 286,70 Adres KEDEA BUILDING, TRITIS SEPTEMVRIOU, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS 546 36 THESSALONIKI Zobacz na mapie Region Βόρεια Ελλάδα Κεντρική Μακεδονία Θεσσαλονίκη Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kierownik naukowy Aikaterini Aifanti (Dr.) Kontakt administracyjny Georgia Petridou (Ms.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS Zakończenie uczestnictwa Grecja Wkład UE € 23 334,50 Adres N PLASTIRA STR 100 70013 Irakleio Zobacz na mapie Region Νησιά Αιγαίου Κρήτη Ηράκλειο Rodzaj działalności Research Organisations Kontakt administracyjny Zinovia Papatheodorou (Ms.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG Niemcy Wkład UE € 182 778,80 Adres SCHLOSSPLATZ 4 91054 Erlangen Zobacz na mapie Region Bayern Mittelfranken Erlangen, Kreisfreie Stadt Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kontakt administracyjny Tina Linti (Ms.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych