REPLICA2: Large-area replication of biological anti-adhesive nanosurfaces

Project Information

REPLICA2

Grant agreement ID: 619448

Project closed

Start date 1 March 2014

End date 28 February 2015

Funded under

• Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 160 000,00

EU contribution € 147 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO
Italy

Objective

"The project aims at designing and optimizing a pre-industrial process to produce artificial biomimetic anti-adhesive polymer/metal surfaces by direct copy of the morphology of a natural water-repellent substrates such as lotus leaves, and subsequent modification thereof. Thus, morphological modifications are exploited rather than chemical treatments to obtain water/ice/particle-repellent surfaces. The experimental procedure, devised in the ERC Starting Grant ""Bio-inspired Hierarchical Super Nanomaterials"" (BIHSNAM), has proven to be an extremely simple yet efficient way to exploit natural nano- and micro-structural hierarchical designs for the production of durable artificial antiadhesive surfaces. A modification and improvement of this process would lead to a considerable simplification in existing industrial production techniques, with the possibility of creating nanoscale features on large surfaces with a relatively uncomplicated and economical, and therefore industrially attractive method. The process under consideration should in this project be technically verified, improved and taken to a pre-commercial stage, for applications in industrial sectors such as white goods, automotive, air transport, and possibly advanced construction materials."

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• natural sciences › chemical sciences › polymer sciences
• engineering and technology › nanotechnology › nano-materials

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Programme(s)

• 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)

Topic(s)

• ERC-OA-2013-PoC - European Research Council ERC Proof of Concept

Call for proposal

ERC-2013-PoC
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Funding Scheme

CSA-SA(POC) - Supporting action (Proof of Concept)

Host institution

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO

• EU contribution: € 147 000,00
• Address: VIA CALEPINA 14 ; 38122 Trento ; Italy
• Region: Nord-Est › Provincia Autonoma di Trento › Trento
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data

Beneficiaries (1)

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO

Italy

• EU contribution: € 147 000,00
• Address: VIA CALEPINA 14 ; 38122 Trento
• Region: Nord-Est › Provincia Autonoma di Trento › Trento
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data