Objective The overall objective of the project is to increase the knowledge and research level of the Institute of Textiles at the University of Maribor, on the creation of tailored and/or smart fibre forming polymers and materials that would be able to control the realise of various active compounds, or to create tailored fibre surface properties for different end-applications in the area of technical textiles, such as medical, therapeutic, hygienic and protective textiles.The project will transfer the knowledge of technologies based on- colloidal micro-hydro-gelation,- nano-micro-(en)capsulation and- polymer surface coating,- innovative biotechnological, green-chemistry and chemical catalysis tools, or their combination, will be applied to activate and/or modify polymer surfaces and/or colloidal particles/layers created by ecologically and toxicologically suitable processes.According to the diversity of the knowledge and expertise that shall be transferred, the project will build a highly multidisciplinary scientific group, cutting across different established research areas, i.e. textile chemists, physical chemists, biological catalysts and colloidal engineers, that will be able to prepare colloidal particles, coatings and multilayers, and subsequently apply them to different suitably pre-activated and/or modified natural and synthetic polymer surfaces. The new fibre materials with upgraded properties can be exploited either to enhance the bulk properties of existing products for better performance, or to create new value-added products with smart and/or tailored surface characteristics based on the multifunctionality.The project will increase the host research quality and overall RTD capability related to the EU competitiveness as well as contributes to the strengthening of textile and textile-oriented SMEs in order to deal with rapid change and growing competition of their products by integrating advanced technologies into the existing ones. Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciencesengineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextilesengineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and filmsnatural scienceschemical sciencescatalysisbiocatalysis Keywords Bio-medical materials Bioprocessing Coating Drug-delivery systems Encapsulation Hydrogels Intelligent interfaces Interactive surfaces Micro-nano eng Oriented fibre polymers Technical textiles Programme(s) FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 Topic(s) MOBILITY-1.3 - Marie Curie Host Fellowships - Transfer of knowledge (TOK) Call for proposal FP6-2004-MOBILITY-3 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme TOK - Marie Curie actions-Transfer of Knowledge Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR, FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING EU contribution No data Address Smetanova Ulica 17 MARIBOR Slovenia See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Finland EU contribution No data Address Vuorimiehentie 5 1000 ESPOO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Austria EU contribution No data Address Rechbauerstrasse 12 GRAZ See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data LUNDS UNIVERSITY Sweden EU contribution No data Address Paradisgaten 5C 117 LUND See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES Germany EU contribution No data Address Am Muehlenberg 1 POTSDAM/GOLM See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY GRAZ Austria EU contribution No data Address Universitaetsplatz 3 GRAZ See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data