Description du projet
Une nouvelle génération d’appareils biohybrides
Pour parvenir à une consommation d’électricité bon marché et efficace, l’UE apporte son concours aux technologies d’éclairage biohybride et photovoltaïque avancées. L’utilisation de biomolécules en tant que composants pratiques dans les appareils d’éclairage et photovoltaïques en sont toutefois encore à la phase de recherche, car celles-ci mutent lorsqu’elles sont stockées ou activées. À l’heure actuelle, on utilise un matériau innovant qui s’apparente au caoutchouc et qui préserve la biofonctionnalité. Le projet InOutBioLight, financé par l’UE, concevra des caoutchoucs multifonctionnels aux caractéristiques mécaniques, thermiques, de conversion des couleurs et de transmission lumineuse améliorées. Le projet vise à mettre au point une nouvelle génération d’appareils biohybrides en ciblant cinq points critiques: la nature de la stabilisation de la matrice protéique; le renforcement des caractéristiques thermiques et mécaniques; la conception de caoutchouc multifonctionnel; l’imitation des modèles naturels; et l’extension de l’utilisation technologique des perspectives du caoutchouc.
Objectif
InOutBioLight aims to design multifunctional rubbers with enhanced mechanical, thermal, color-converting, and light-guiding features towards advanced biohybrid lighting and photovoltaic technologies. The latter are placed at the forefront of the EU efforts for low-cost production and efficient consumption of electricity, a critical issue for a sustainable development.
In this context, the use of biomolecules as functional components in lighting and photovoltaic devices is still a challenge, as they quickly denature under storage and device operation conditions. This paradigm has changed using an innovative rubber-like material, in which the biofunctionality is long preserved. As a proof-of-concept, color down-converting rubbers based on fluorescent proteins were used to design the first biohybrid white light-emitting diode (bio-HWLED). To develop a new generation of biohybrid devices, InOutBioLight will address the following critical issues, namely i) the nature of the protein-matrix stabilization, ii) how to enhance the thermal/mechanical features, iii) how to design multifunctional rubbers, iv) how to mimic natural patterns for light-guiding, and v) how to expand the technological use of the rubber approach.
To achieve these goals, InOutBioLight involves comprehensive spectroscopic, microscopic, and mechanical studies to investigate the protein-matrix interaction using new polymer matrices, additives, and protein-based nanoparticles. In addition, the mechanical, thermal, and light-coupling features will be enhanced using structural biocompounds and reproducing biomorphic patterns. As such, InOutBioLight offers three major advances: i) a thorough scientific basis for the rubber approach, ii) a significant thrust of the emerging bio-HWLEDs, and iii) innovative breakthroughs beyond state-of-the-art biohybrid solar cells.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcolors
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteins
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciences
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energyphotovoltaic
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitution d’accueil
80333 Muenchen
Allemagne