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Comparison of CNOSSOS-EU and NMPB methods for road noise modelling in Italy and in Romania

Duration: From January 2023 to December 2024 (2 years) Bilateral agreement: CNR/Romanian Academy (Romania) Funding Institution: CNR and Romanian Academy Contact person: E. Ascari (IPCF) – Tudor Sireteanu (Romanian Academy) For several decades the European community has focused attention on the issue of noise prevention, given its importance as an environmental pollutant. With effects such as […]

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I2LDS – Local Dielectric Spectroscopy at the Interface of Polymeric Nanocomposites

Duration: From October 2022 to September 2025 (3 years) Funding Institution: Office of Naval Research Global  Contact person: M. Labardi The project is aimed at investigating the behavior of insulating polymers, subjected to extreme stress conditions, close to the interface with electrodes as well as of nanoinclusions added for improving their performance, by means of super-resolved […]

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PHOSBURY – Photosynthetic bacteria in Self-assembled Biocompatible coatings for the transduction of energy

Duration: From April 2022 to October 2024 (2.5 years) Funding Institution: SNSF – Swiss National Science Foundation Contact person: M. Trotta Improve the electron transfer between the microbe and electrode surface, the bottleneck in existing microbial technologies, by engineering microbes capable of biopolymerizing their own inter-and intra-cellular conductive network. Partners: EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale […]

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Exploration of the mechanisms of prebiotic synthesis in impact craters

Duration: From 2022 to 2025 (3 years) Bilateral agreement: CNR/CAS (Czech Republic) – biennio 2022-2023 Funding Institution: CNR and Academy of Science, Czech Republic Contact person: F. Saija (IPCF) – Martin Ferus, (Academy of Science, Czech Republic) This project focuses on extensive experimental and theoretical investigations of formamide-based and hydrogen-cyanide- (HCN)-based prebiotic synthesis in post-impact hydrothermal model environments. Firstly, the fundamental Chemistry […]

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Detection of micro and nanoplastics absorbed in the gut of marine invertebrates by Raman/SERS tweezers

Duration: From January 2022 to December 2024 (2 years) Bilateral agreement: CNR/Royal Society (United Kingdom) – 2022-2023 Funding Institution: Royal Society Contact person:  P. G. Gucciardi (IPCF) – Tamara Galloway (University of Exeter – UK) The project is focused on the detection of micro and nanoplastics absorbed in the intestine of marine invertebrates using Raman optical tweezers in order to increase […]

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CEM-WAVE – Novel Ceramic Matrix Composites produced with Microwave assisted Chemical Vapour Infiltration process for energy-intensive industries

Duration: From October 2020 to March 2024 (3.5 years) Funding Institution: Horizon 2020 programme (H2020-NMBP-ST-IND-2020-singlestage) – LC-SPIRE-08-2020 Novel high performance materials and components (RIA) Contact person: Prof. Andrea Lazzeri (Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering – University of Pisa), associated of IPCF Website: cem-wave.eu/  ERC sector: Physical Sciences and Engineering The goal of CEM-WAVE is […]

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Active Matter Initial Training Network: From Fundamental Science to Technological Applications (ActiveMatter ITN)

Duration: From September 2019 to February 2024 (4.5 years) Funding Institution: European Commission, Program H2020-EU-1.3 Excellent Science- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Contact person: M.A. Iatì and O. M. Maragò Website:  active-matter.eu This is an MSCA ITN project composed by 14 Beneficiaries and 9 Partner Organisations from 9 different countries, and focuses on experimental, theoretical and computational […]

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Self-aggregation of active particles with complex shapes into controlled optical potentials

Duration: From 01 Jun 2019 to 31 Dec 2022 (3.5 years) Bilateral agreement: CNR/Tubitak (Turkey) Funding Institution: CNR and TUBITAK-Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Contact person: O. M. Maragò (IPCF) – Luca Biancofiore (University of Bilkent – TR) In this project we aim to extend the study on Janus particles to non-spherical active particles, like elongated Janus particles, Janus micro- and […]

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SEAVIEW

Duration: From November 2018 to September 2023  (5.0 years) Funding Institution: EU-funded – FESR (Fondo europeo di sviluppo regionale) Contact person: A. Irrera (DSFTM) List of partners:  Tecnav Systems Dune Global Power Italia S.r.l. Università degli Studi di Palermo Website:  https://www.globalpoweritalia.it/seaview The SEAVIEW project aims to design, build and test in an industrial and real environment the demonstrator […]

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INCIPIT- INtegrated Conductive and biomimetic polymeric Interfaces able to serve as micro-nanostructured Patches for myocardIal regeneraTion

Duration: From September 2019 to February 2024 (4.5 years) Funding Institution: M-ERA.NET 2, Horizon 2020, MIUR-FIRST Contact person: C. Cristallini Website: incipit ERC sectors: Physical Sciences and Engineering; Life Sciences The aim of the project is the implementation of bioartificial scaffolds with the potential to serve as acellular patches for in vivo cardiac regeneration. The INCIPIT cardiac […]

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