Innovative fluorescent Nanodiamonds as bright permanent markers for diagnostics and anti-counterfeiting

Informazioni relative al progetto

BRIGHT NANO-DIAMONDS

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 663688

DOI

10.3030/663688

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 28 Gennaio 2015

Data di avvio 1 Dicembre 2014

Data di completamento 31 Maggio 2015

Finanziato da

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Nanotechnologies

Costo totale

€ 71 429,00

Contributo UE

€ 50 000,00

Coordinato da

DIAMLITE
France

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - BRIGHT NANO-DIAMONDS (Innovative fluorescent Nanodiamonds as bright permanent markers for diagnostics and anti-counterfeiting)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2014-12-01 al 2015-05-31

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

DiamLite is a company developping nanodiamonds with a permanent fluorescence.
The objectives are to produce and market these diamonds, with an important brightness.
This innovative technology takes place in a context of strong demand from the fields of life sciences, oil exploration and struggle against counterfeiting.
All these fields have issues of permanency of the marking, of toxicity of their usual markers, of easy forging of security tags. These issues can raise another and more important issue of public health.
DiamLite has a patented production process. The size of the diamonds are adaptable to the application, and the fluorescence can be easily detected.
No company currently sells well-characterised fND as DiamLite is, using a stable industrial process.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

The objectives of DiamLite for the reporting period were the configuration of the scale-up of bright fluorescent nano-diamonds production, and the carrying out of some business development actions.
Both tasks have been started, and the business development has been completed.
The business development carried out a deeper market analysis for the applications of DiamLite. Concerning its outcome, it appears that DiamLite has to take position in a competitive environment. However, the characteristics of DiamLite nanodiamonds enable to differentiate from the other technologies, due to their permanent fluorescence, the possibility to personalise them in order to offer turnkey products, and their non-toxicity. All the applications are relevant, because DiamLite nanodiamonds can overcome their main issues.

The scale-up of the fluorescent nanodiamonds production lead to the launching of the production of a new batch of nanodiamonds, configured with the new parameters.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

The final results expected are the industrial production of brighter fluorescent nanodiamonds and their marketing.
The use of such nanodiamonds will have important impacts in the struggle against counterfeiting, as it will be a new unforgeable and cheap tag for everyday products such as cigarettes. This is strongly linked to the issue of public health, by reducing the selling and smoking of potentially harmful products.
The coupling of diamonds to antibodies will be of great use in biological research, helping to monitor cells and enhance imaging.

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