Project description
Lighting the way to molecular damage to keep stretching without breaking
While not much damage is done when the rubber band holding your bunch of pens together snaps and breaks, this is not the case for the tires on your car, medical prostheses, construction materials, or wires and cables. Elastomers (elastic polymers) are commonly used in load-bearing engineering applications and scission of covalent bonds with wear and ageing can have dangerous consequences. Non-destructive monitoring is ubiquitous in many fields, but there is currently no good way to monitor and detect early-stage progressive molecular-scale damage in elastomers. The EU-funded Fluodamage project is tagging elastomers with molecules that become fluorescent when they break. The non-destructive monitoring technique will save time and money by scheduling maintenance and enhancing product lifetimes. It will also enable the use of lighter parts using less material by avoiding the need to err on the side of caution.
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ERC-POC-LS - ERC Proof of Concept Lump Sum Pilot
Host institution
75794 Paris
France
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75794 Paris
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