Descrizione del progetto
Catalizzare un cambiamento nella fotosintesi artificiale
In un mondo alla ricerca di modi sostenibili per soddisfare la crescente domanda di energia per alimentare un’economia globale in crescita, la fotosintesi biomimetica artificiale rappresenta un’opportunità promettente. Le piante e altri organismi trasformano l’energia luminosa in energia chimica attraverso la conversione di acqua, CO2 e minerali in ossigeno e composti organici ricchi di energia. I dispositivi fotoelettrochimici possono svolgere un ruolo importante nella produzione di combustibile solare a emissioni zero attraverso la fotosintesi artificiale. I polimeri porosi coniugati (CPP, Conjugated Porous Polymers) sono una classe promettente di fotocatalizzatori con durabilità strutturale, tossicità zero e basso costo. Il progetto NanoCPPs finanziato dall’UE sta sviluppando un nuovo processo sintetico per nanoparticelle basato su CPP da utilizzare in pellicole sottili, che supera gli attuali ostacoli e consente la messa a punto e il controllo delle proprietà CPP. Il progetto prevede di spianare la strada alla commercializzazione con un piano di trasferimento delle conoscenze.
Obiettivo
The world energy demand is continuously growing due to the increase of population. This has triggered the need of new technologies that allow the sustainability of the planet. In this sense, the search of novel materials that can be introduced in these new technological approaches is mandatory.
In NanoCPPs project, the design, synthesis and scale up of nanoparticles based on Conjugated Porous Polymers (CPPs) will be performed. Advanced techniques will be applied to obtain processable CPPs as colloidal solutions in the multi-gram scale as precursors to prepare thin films. These conductive polymer thin films will be used in photoelectrochemical devices for artificial photosynthesis processes, including hydrogen production from water and CO2 reduction. NanoCPPs will address the two main drawbacks inherent to the CPPs synthetic process currently used. Firstly, the particle size control will be improved, which allows to tune the photo(electro)physical properties, in the same way as it happens with nanoparticles based on inorganic semiconductors. Secondly, NanoCPPs will also advance towards the formulation of optimum colloidal solutions of nanostructured CPPs that offers new opportunities to their processability, which is an outstanding issue for this kind of materials.
The knowledge transfer plan will be based on a vendor IP strategy, in which target companies will be preferentially those dedicated to polymers manufacturing for advance applications and those dedicated to electrodes production at large scale. With this aim, a market and IP assessment as well as a pre-technology study will be performed in order to transfer NanoCPPs new technology to the market”.
Campo scientifico
- natural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciences
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energyhydrogen energy
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbotany
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-POC-LS - ERC Proof of Concept Lump Sum PilotIstituzione ospitante
28935 Mostoles Madrid
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