Single polymer visualisation in turbulent drag reduction using dna

Project Information

VOLFANGO BERTOLA

Grant agreement ID: HPMF-CT-2002-01938

Project closed

Start date 1 June 2002

End date 31 May 2004

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Total cost € 125 600,00

EU contribution € 125 600,00

Coordinated by

ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE
France

Objective

Addition of small amounts of polymers leads to a large reduction of the turbulent energy dissipation. This is attributed to a stretching of the Polymers by the flow, which we propose to visualize directly using singe-molecule fluorescence on DNA polymers.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › biological sciences › genetics › DNA
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › polymer sciences

Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Topic(s)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinator

ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rue Lhomond 24 ; 75231 PARIS ; France
• Total cost: No data