Objective The aim of the proposed work is to enable a substantial increase in the rate and extent of the uptake of biocatalysis processes by industry, i.e. the use of biological catalysts to facilitate chemical reactions. The objective is to provide a generic approach to the immobilisation and/or stabilisation of enzymes using low cost, renewable support materials and novel internal cross-linking methods where the enzyme becomes its own support. The research will focus on the immobilisation/stabilisation techniques and will assess the enhancement in performance produced in the main target application of fine chemicals synthesis. However, the potential applicability is very broad and applications in textile processing and a novel fuel cell development will also be explored to a more limited extent.The production of low cost immobilisation materials will be studied. They will be designed to be commercially viable regarding cost to use ratio. Increased stability in commercial preparations of supported biocatalysts will be sought. The ultimate aim is to produce biocatalytic enzyme nanocomposites as free flowing dry powders that may be stored at room temperature for many months (possible years) and used off the shelf for the manufacture of fine chemicals etc. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcompositesengineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextilesnatural scienceschemical sciencescatalysisbiocatalysisengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfuel cellsnatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteinsenzymes Programme(s) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology) Call for proposal FP6-2004-SME-COOP See other projects for this call Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator C-TECH INNOVATION LTD Address Capenhurst technology park Chester United Kingdom See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ALKOMOHR BIOTECH OY LTD Finland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Lehtotie 8 Helsinki See on map Links Website Opens in new window CLEA TECHNOLOGIES BV Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Julianalaan 136 Delft See on map Links Website Opens in new window DI DR. ANDREAS PAAR KEG Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Leechgasse 55/8 Graz See on map Links Website Opens in new window DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window KYLOLAB S.L. Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rio guadalentin, 13 - poligono industrial Ceuti (murcia) See on map Links Website Opens in new window MACROSYNTH LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address 21 bracken park, scarcroft Leeds See on map NAMOS GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Tatzberg 47 Dresden See on map Links Website Opens in new window TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT (DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY) Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Julianalaan 134 Delft See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Woodhouse lane Leeds See on map Links Website Opens in new window
