Project description
Pioneering technology for green materials
Climate change, microplastic pollution and raw material shortages require fundamental changes to the existing economic system. The replacement of fossil fuel resources and persistent materials with renewable energy and biodegradables, respectively, and the development of environmentally friendly technologies emerge as the most viable alternative. The EU-funded BreadCell project will develop a pioneering technology to produce porous lightweight low-density materials that are massively used in industries and mainly consist of non-degradable polymers. The technology includes a foaming process that creates products from new and existing raw materials from pulping and converts them into high-value, energy-absorbing and lightweight composites. The production of sustainable and safe products will be guaranteed by safe-by-design principles guiding the entire process chain.
Objective
The major challenge to reduce consequences of climate change, microplastic pollution and raw material shortages is to convert our economic system. We need to replace fossil-based resources by renewable ones, replace persistent materials by biodegradables while developing and employing environmentally friendly processing technologies to create safe products with minimum impact on the environment. A real impact on economy, society and ecology is only generated if the materials, processes and products to be replaced are in large scale. In BreadCell, we develop a radically new technology to produce porous lightweight low-density materials which are currently used in large scale industries and mainly consist of synthetic non-degradable polymers. BreadCell technology comprises a foaming process to create products relying on existing and new raw materials from pulping (cellulose, xylan), and to convert them to high value, lightweight, energy-absorbing and load-transferring composites such as in sports and safety components of cars. The whole process chain will be guided by safe-by-design principles to ensure the production of sustainable and inherently safe products. Today, the innovation capacity of European scientists and industry in the area of renewable materials makes them already the leading global players in the field. We will provide a scalable technology that will further support the European technological leadership in the area by cross-fertilization of different fields (pulp and paper, biotechnology, polymer technology, toxicity) while addressing needs of future materials.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology materials engineering fibers
- engineering and technology materials engineering composites
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.1.2. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
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RIA - Research and Innovation action
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(opens in new window) H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2020
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412 96 GOTEBORG
Sweden
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