Active microcleaners for water remediation

Informations projet

MICROCLEANERS

N° de convention de subvention: 713608

DOI

10.3030/713608

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 9 Août 2016

Date de début 1 Septembre 2016

Date de fin 28 Février 2018

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Coût total

€ 150 000,00

Contribution de l’UE

€ 150 000,00

Coordonné par

FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE BIOENGINYERIA DE CATALUNYA
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MICROCLEANERS (Active microcleaners for water remediation)

Période du rapport: 2016-09-01 au 2018-02-28

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

The MICROCLEANERS’s project demonstrated that active micromotors can clean efficiently different types of contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, heavy metals and bacteria. We reported the cost-reduction in the fabrication techniques compared with the state of the art and avoided the use of Pt as catalytic material which was, until date, the prohibiting material for their commercial transfer of the technology.
We developed synthesis methods which can eventually be upgraded for mass production of microcleaners and enable multimaterial compositions for enhanced catalysis and photocatalysis.
We can integrate or combine different types of microcleaners in a compact device for cleaning small amounts of water off-line and in-line. This would have impact in society by reaching under-developed countries where the access to clean water is limited. Additionally, small companies would benefit from this technology using microcleaners for on-site cleaning of small amounts of water, avoiding the need to accumulate and transport polluted water to the water cleaning plant.