Project description
Developing smart materials for intelligent structures
Microparticles and nanoparticles possess unique physicochemical properties that make them suitable for the development of smart materials. The EU-funded SMARTFAN project will leverage these materials in order to create smart components for application in intelligent structures. The project aims to develop lightweight composites and transfer the advantageous properties of these smart materials, including compatibility, low cost, and recyclability, into bulk composites with polymer-based matrices for structural component systems. To achieve this, SMARTFAN will implement various processes during the manufacturing of composites to preserve the physicochemical properties of the nanomaterials included.
Objective
Smartfan aims at the micro and Nano components, which will be used due to their special physico-chemical properties, in order to develop smart (bulk) materials for final application on intelligent structures. CFs for reinforcement and conductivity variance, CNTs and CNFs for sensing, Micro-containers for self-healing, Electro-Magnetic nanoparticles for fields detection and shielding, colouring agents for marking cracks and defects, piezoelectric materials can be the base for manufacturing new smart materials. In order to develop lightweight composite materials and transfer the properties of smart components into bulk materials polymer based matrices, such as Epoxy, PEEK, PVDF etc., will be used because of their compatibility with the above mentioned components, their low cost and their recyclability/reusability. During synthesis of composite bulk materials several processes should take place in order to preserve the special physico-chemical properties of composites and to achieve the best dispersion in the bulk.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcompositescarbon fibers
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectrical engineeringpiezoelectrics
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42015 Correggio Re
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33600 Pessac
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43040 Varano De Melegari
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50018 Zaragoza
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60044 Fabriano
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70013 Irakleio
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1030 SCHAERBEEK
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69190 Walldorf
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20154 Milano
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4200-465 Porto
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10129 Torino
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92190 MEUDON
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00133 Roma
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B15 2TT Birmingham
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195 00 ATHINA
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CB4 0WS Cambridge
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
4805 017 Guimaraes
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
157 80 ATHINA
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