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FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Non-spherical particles in fluid turbulence

Dilute suspensions of solid particles in turbulent gas or liquid flow offer problems of even greater complexity than mono-phase turbulence. Such particulate flows are of immense practical concern both in nature and technology, e.g. airborne solid particle s (aerosols), tiny carbon nanotubes, micr...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Device concepts for micro energy harvesting

There is a big world wide effort on the development of energy scavenging devices to power wireless electronics. The research activities have demonstrated that this type of devices has a great potential for applications that can be driven by a few microwat ts. The basic motivation behind the field...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestfold

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Studies on Codes for Error Detection

The basic idea of error coding is to introduce redundancy that can be utilized to detect and, for some applications, correct errors that have occurred during a transmission over a channel. Here "transmission" is used in a wide sense, including any process which may corrupt the data, e.g. transmi...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Analytic calculations of higher-order molecular properties

I prosjektet har det blitt utviklet en meget generell formalisme og et fleksibelt dataprogram for analytisk beregning av høyere-ordens molekylære egenskaper ved bruk av tetthetsfunksjonalteori. Dette arbeidet har gjort det mulig å presentere de første beregninger av sannsynligheten for samtidig a...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Responsive (bio)polymer matrices as Fabry-Perot cavities: A versatile platform for development of nanostructured (bio)polymer materials

The project focuses on determination of high resolution swelling data of responsive, soft (bio)polymer materials by the application of an optical interferometric technique with nanometer precision in changes of the optical length of the soft materials. Ba sically, the responsive hydrogel material...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

The kinetics of surface exchange reactions in oxide based mixed conductors at reducing conditions and high temperatures.

The development of cost-effective solid oxide fuel cells and dense ceramic membrane-based reactor and separation technologies is of considerable interest for application in advanced natural gas-based power production and hydrogen production. Common for al l these technologies is the need for oxid...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Strength and rheological evolution of the lower continental crust

The project will study the processes of deformation and the mechanical strength in the lower continental crust. To date, it is unclear whether this part of the crust behaves as a rigid part of the lithosphere or whether it is mechanically much weaker than the upper mantle so that deformation may...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Mantle forcing of Earth surface evolution in Europe and the Mediterranean: From Past to Present

Surface deformation, in particular topography evolution, results from a complex coupled dynamic system in which mantle processes (e.g. global mantle currents, plate subduction and collision) interact with surface processes (e.g. erosion, sedimentation, se a-level change, or (de)glaciation). The i...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Nanopatterned Superconductors for Energy and ICT Applications

This project addresses key questions and challenges in modern research on superconductors as important materials for energy transport/storage and electronic devices. In any such application the central issue is how to avoid motion of the Abrikosov vortice s, which represent both energy loss and e...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Planetary Boundary Layer Feedback in the Earths Climate System

The lower atmosphere and the upper ocean are turbulent or chaotic. The turbulence transports heat, moisture/aerosols from the surface, where solar radiation is absorbed and moisture/pollution fluxes are originated, to the atmosphere. For 50 years, turbule nt mixing has been recognized as one of t...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Wave-current-body interaction

We are motivated by, particularly, industrial needs for improved and cost-efficient design of offshore wind turbines. These are supported by relatively slender vertical columns, which may be fixed if the water is relatively shallow, or moored if the water is deep. An exhaustive, in depth and an ...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

The Emergence of an Aerobic World - Drilling Early Earth Project.

The development of new analytical techniques, and improved models for planetary evolution have intensified research into the evolution of the Earth and targeted several critical time intervals, particularly when the biosphere and geosphere were experienci ng global-scale changes. The current prop...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Electronic and electrical properties of carbon cone materials

The use of carbon structures, as carbon nanotubes, in coatings, electrodes, light-harvesting devices and sensors is a growing research field. Carbon cone materials are recognized as a novel type of carbon, consisting of nano- to micrometer sized particles with the shape of disks and cones. The ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

A Novel PET Detector with 3D Event Reconstruction and MRI Compatibility

In PET imaging today there is a constant demand for improved resolution, efficiency, timing and image contrast. Real progress calls for new approaches and developments within PET instrumentation. In this proposal we describe the concept of a novel 3D axia l geometry with excellent 3-dimensional s...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Assessing and Improving the Cost-Effectiveness of Automated Software Inspection

Software is everywhere in our modern technological society. People's daily lives have become increasingly dependent on complex software systems and the results of software failures have a huge social and economic impact. Research indicates that software f ailures cost the American economy nearly ...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Operator algebras

The operator algebra group is a national network with members from the University of Oslo (UiO), Oslo University College (HiO) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The present project aims at conducting research in leading are as of operator algebras, strengthening a...

Awarded: NOK 10.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Boron and Phosphorus in Solar Grade Silicon

The growth of the solar cell market, indicates a shortage of solar cell feedstock silicon at present and in the near future. Therefore, creation of special technologies of this feedstock production is necessary. The most direct approach for silicon feedst ock production is to upgrade metallurgica...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Ultra-short pulsed Tm-doped fiber laser systems

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Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Nitrogen in Oxides, NITROX

The NITROX research project addresses a novel field in high temperature solid-state ionics; effects of nitrogen defects in oxides. This initiative is timely in view of the need for development of technologies for cleaner energy conversion and the emerging field of nano ionics. The principal obje...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Spatial and temporal coupling between tectonics and surface processes during lithosphere inversion of the Pyrenean-Cantabrian mountain belt

While there is significant progress in understanding first order controls on styles of rifting and passive margin formation, still relatively little is known about factors that control the structural style of inversion of these structures. Especially the importance of structural weaknesses forme...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Timescales of sediment dynamics, climate and topographic change in mountain landscapes (SedyMONT) - Erdalen and Bødalen site project

The focus of this Norwegian Individual Project (IP 5) within SedyMONT is on the Erdalen and Bødalen catchments (tributary streams) in Nordfjord, western Norway. Both valleys provide, based on the ongoing research in both catchments, excellent opportunitie s to integrate existing and detailed quan...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

TopoScandiaDeep; The Scandinavian Mountains: deep processes

Mountains form mostly at convergent or strike-slip margins and are not expected to form in intraplate settings. Uplift occurred however in various places around the North Atlantic after continental breakup, leading in particular to the Northern and Southe rn Scandinavian mountains. The aim of the...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Topology

Topology is the study of shapes and spaces. The methods developed in topology have wide consequences also for other fields in that many problems can be encoded by means of spaces (examples range from space itself and phase spaces in physics to classifyin g spaces in algebra). A fascinating new ...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Nonlinear Problems in Mathematical Analysis

The project aims to strengthen and further develop basic research within the group of researchers in classical analysis and differential equations at NTNU. Situated at Norway's premier engineering school, the research team of this project has as its visio n to - operate in the two-way street be...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Corroles as functional materials

This is a collaborative project between two groups at the University of Tromsø, led by Professors Abhik Ghosh and Kenneth Ruud, and will comprise both an experimental and a theoretical component. On the experimental side, our studies will involve the syn thesis of a variety of metallocorroles, t...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Understanding of defects and impurities in ZnO; synthesis, doping, and band gap engineering

The project deals with understanding of fundamental physical properties of ZnO motivated to be a promising material when considering new challenges of efficient energy saving/production, further developing/securing the communication highways, developing s ensor interfaces (for example to the huma...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Requirements for Secure Information Systems

The project will develop and evaluate methodology and tool support for security requirements engineering, integrated with mainstream software development methods. The main features of the contribution will be as follows: - The methodology shall be lightwe ight, meant to be used primarily by mains...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

"Nuclear Matter at Extreme Conditions: Modeling High Energy Heavy Ion Reactions"

The project aims to study properties of hot and dense nuclear matter, produced in A+A collisions at bombarding energies between 1-16000 AGeV within the microscopic Monte Carlo models and macroscopic models at our disposal. Nowadays besides three microsco pic models, quark-gluon string model, ult...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Transport mechanisms in the ocean

We propose to apply and further develop two existing Large Eddy Scale (LES) ocean models and an existing k-e ocean model capable of calculating the three-dimensional turbulent ocean flow from the bottom to the free surface, where the latter forms part of the solution. The LES solvers will also be...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Ultra-slow spreading and hydrogen-based deep biosphere: A site survey proposal for zero-age drilling of the Knipovich Ridge

We propose to study geodynamic and hydrothermal processes along one of the most slow-spreading segments of the global ridge system. This will lay the ground for a European lead proposal to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) aimed to test hypothe sis on the geodynamics and the extent and...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland