The project involves the design, development, and prototyping of innovative cables for energy transmission and telecommunications capable of integrating new features not currently available in the internationally recognized state of the art (high reflectance, fluorescence, and phosphorescence optical properties, increasing the speed and efficiency of installation, maintenance, and testing procedures, reducing the risk of collision or involuntary contact, and indelible marking with anti-counterfeiting properties). The cables’ composition will ensure production and end-of-life management processes achieve levels of environmental sustainability superior to those currently available in the industry.

As part of the project, the CNR-IPCF working group, Pisa branch, will focus on optimizing new formulations of high-performance composite materials with sensors and/or nanostructures capable of responding to environmental stimuli. This includes identifying additives and fillers, addressing sustainability aspects, and implementing blend optimization procedures, with particular attention to the use of substances derived from the transformation of virgin biomass and biological waste material for the production of external sheaths and insulating sheaths for cables.