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From the SEA to the SOLution. An integrative assessment of marine pollution in a changing Arctic

Marine chemical pollution poses known threats to human health and to biodiversity, ecosystem and societal services. The Arctic is a major sink of global mercury (Hg) pollution. Arctic sediments, sea and glacial ice constitute vast Hg reservoirs. Recent studies raise concerns about their increasing role as local Hg sources. In a rapidly warming Arctic, the consequences of potentially increased environmental Hg on marine biota remain unknown. The objective of SEASOL is to identify the pathway(s) of Hg bioaccumulation in marine food webs of the High Arctic Kongsfjorden (Svalbard). This changing glacial fjord is recognised as a ‘natural laboratory’ of climate change in the Arctic. The fellow’s earlier research has shown the sole measurement of Hg levels as insufficient to connect biotic Hg dynamics to environmental change, whereas the analysis of Hg stable isotopes proved to be a promising tool for source discrimination and biotic transfer. SEASOL will build on the novel application of stable isotope analysis to identify the sources of Hg within the fjord system and the pathways to Hg accumulation within sentinel marine species. On the short-term, the study will provide fundamental knowledge to help understand how emerging sources of Hg from rapid environmental change will impact Arctic marine predators. On the long-term, SEASOL will contribute to the development of early-warning, adaptive management strategies, including modelling, for mitigating the cumulative impact of pollutants and climate change on Arctic marine species. This multidisciplinary approach and the central position of the host institution (Norwegian Polar Institute) in the field of Polar Research will equip the Fellow with a broad set of new skills and lay the foundation for building her specific niche as a future leader in marine pollution science.

Optimization of Free Space Optical Communication Link based Drones for Search and Rescue Operations in the Arctic Region

The Arctic region is witnessing more frequent shipping accidents than ever which require accurate search and rescue operations. The existing communication systems use drones with radio frequency (RF) technology, which has limited bandwidth and cannot offer 4G/5G connectivity due to harsh weather constraints. It further limits the capacity of drones and affects the resolution of images and videos. The current research proposes to design free space optical communication (FSOC) link-based drones that can enhance connectivity between multiple drones and rescue ships as well as the capacity of drones to produce high resolution images and videos. The proposed FSOC-based drones can provide highspeed connectivity than the existing RF technology. The research will collect atmospheric turbulences data from the Arctic region and use it for designing the FSOC link. Furthermore, to enhance the capacity of FSOC-based drones, the research will design advanced multiplexing schemes (Mode Division Multiplexing and Orthogonal Code Division Multiple Access) and to ensure link stability, omnidirectional receiver will be designed. The research will further evaluate the performance of proposed FSOC link under the impact of various atmospheric turbulences. The expected outcomes of this research will lead to the optimisation of FSOC-based drones in expanding search areas and improving communication systems for SAR operations in the Arctic region.

AQUASERV – RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES FOR SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE, FISHERIES AND THE BLUE ECONOMY

The overarching objectives of AQUASERV are to bring together, enhance, integrate and customise RI capacities (including facilities, instruments and expertise) and through the provision of transnational access (on-site or remote) and/or virtual access, to significantly further scientific advance and promote and facilitate the implementation of European Common Fisheries Policy, the Farm to Fork Strategy, the Sustainable Blue Economy and the European Green Deal. 

AQUASERV will achieve these objectives by offering scientists from academia and business remote and on-site transnational (TA) and virtual (VA) access to an advanced set of European research infrastructures and its nodes related to research and management of marine and freshwater biological resources, food and biotechnology. These include the European Marine Biological Resource Centre ERIC (EMBRC), the Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems ERIC, The Aquaculture for Excellence for Aquaculture in Fish (Aquaexcel), and the Infrastructure for Promoting Metrology in Food and Nutrition (METROFOOD), as well as the International Council for Exploration of the Sea, both a service provider and stakeholder. It also includes the Research Infrastructure for Science and Innovation Policy Studies (RISIS) to bring contributions from the social sciences and to bring results nearer to policy makers ensuring societal impact. 

To enhance, integrate and customise RI capacities, collaboration between partners and new pipelines to meet the objectives of the project will be developed during the first 3 years and will make available  to users.  To ensure these capacities will not be lost, a sustainability work package involving stakeholders will address the project legacy.  

To maximize impact, AQUASERV will build a communication network among the partnership and develop a dissemination and outreach programme. Furthermore, an advanced training programme will be developed to capture future users and will be updated during the p

Aqua Research Infrastructure Services for the health and protection of our unique, oceans, seas and freshwater ecosystems

AQUARIUS will provide a highly comprehensive suite of integrated research infrastructures appropriate to addressing significant challenges for the long-term sustainability of our unique oceans, seas and freshwater ecosystems. For the first time, diverse research infrastructures will be combined to facilitate the work of researchers and key stakeholders focused on challenges and opportunities for both marine and freshwater systems. An impressive range of 57 research infrastructure services will be made available to include research vessels, mobile marine observation platforms, aircraft,  drones, satellite, sensors, fixed freshwater and marine observatories and test sites, experimental facilities, and sophisticated data infrastructures. AQUARIUS will support the development phase of the EU Mission to Restore our Ocean and waters by 2030, the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, the European Green Deal, and international climate initiatives. It will also be an essential component in achieving the European Digital Twin of the Ocean and the UN Decade for Ocean Sciences. The needs of researchers will be met through a robust and transparent system of transnational access funding Calls, facilitated by centralised user-friendly access portal. The Call programme will be informed through stakeholder engagement and brokerage events. Projects to be selected for Access must convincingly integrate multiple infrastructures and contribute to the core policy objectives of Mission Ocean, that is, to protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity; to prevent and eliminate pollution of our oceans, seas and waters; and to ensure a sustainable, carbon-neutral and circular blue economy. A thematic and geographic focus will be the hallmark of the proposed transnational Calls, aligning with the Lighthouse Regions, that is, the Baltic and the North Sea Basins, Black Sea, Atlantic/Arctic, and Mediterranean Sea along with their associated rivers.

Advance Marine Research Infrastructures Together

The European Ocean Observing System (EOOS) is the foundation of European ocean knowledge. The core Marine Research Infrastructures (MRIs) focused on ocean observing (EMSO, EURO-ARGO and ICOS ERICs; EuroFleets+, EuroGoShip, GROOM RI, JERICO RI and MINKE as INFRA projects) are the main providers of in situ ocean data for the EOOS and Copernicus, and the primary managers of instrumental capacity supporting fundamental research.
These MRIs are aware that the lack of effective cross coordination prevents them from fully supporting frontier research, while the lack of integration makes it difficult to reach a critical mass for EOOS and results in significant cost duplication. Accordingly, AMRIT gathers these MRIs together with OceanOPS/WMO international coordination experience with the objective to:
- ensure seamless operation of marine observation platforms ;
- ensure the full nominal use of sensors and accelerate their evolution ;
- exploit the complementarity of the various observation platforms ;
- ensure the overall coherence of the ocean data value chain.
To achieve these objectives, AMRIT will design and implement an EOOS Technical Support Center (EOOS TSC) for
- a fully integrated information service across the data value chain from early planning stages to final delivery to users;
- a cross-platform fully standardised data acquisition methodology for Essential Ocean Variables;
- a collaborative federal structure to operate these services, relying on the ERIs and their members.
The EOOS TSC will be the cornerstone in establishing and maintaining the EOOS, upon which European ocean observing can be strengthened in the coming decades. AMRIT will provide a catalyst for the development and consolidation of MRIs throughout Europe, providing a benchmark for operational coordination and collaboration. AMRIT will advance EOOS in line with its 2023-2027 Strategy and beyond, and the European Commission's ambitions for sharing responsibility in ocean observing across Europe.

Improve offshore infrastructure resilience against geohazards towards a changing climate

POSEIDON brings together an interdisciplinary and intersectoral team to deliver a professionally trained next-generation network of Doctoral Candidates to develop a step change in our capacity to identify, map, assess and predict offshore geohazards and in turn produce ground-breaking methods to prevent, mitigate and boost the resilience of current offshore infrastructure under a changing climate. The consortium is formed by experts across EU countries with universities, research institutions, industry partners and a government body to cover a full training programme on scientific and transferable skills. 

The programme will undertake critical research across scales (from micro to macro) for seeking the inner links and differences, with an eventual aim to ascertain the pathways and grow our capacity for the enhancement of the existing and the robust development of new offshore infrastructure in the frame of safety and resiliency. In addition to the informed design and implementation of the novel physical/numerical modelling and lab studies, our approach is unique in the solid integration and utilisation of state-of-the-art data science technologies (e.g., data mining, machine learning, etc.) to their full potential. Only through this systematic approach, we can achieve the objectives of understanding the impact of offshore geohazards on our offshore critical infrastructures (OCIs) and developing novel models, tools and designs for future OCIs, such as, wind turbines, pipelines and cables. 

The Doctoral Candidates will enjoy a highly integrated, interdisciplinary and intersector training environment, enriched through secondments with the network of non-academics. POSEIDON enables critical learning across all training aspects to ensure that comprehensive, robust and implementable solutions are obtained and validated to face the OCIs climate-resilient building.

POLARIN: POLAR RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK

The polar regions play a key role in the Earth’s system. They are essential for our climate and are sentinels of climate change, human expansion, and the hunt of new resources. The polar regions are losing ice, and their oceans and land are changing rapidly. The consequences of this polar transition extend to the whole planet and are affecting people in multiple ways. Evidence-based policy recommendations are needed, but the polar regions are difficult to reach, and research infrastructures able to operate in these regions are scarce. To understand and predict key processes in the polar regions and provide evidence-based information, the polar research community needs access to world-class research infrastructure operating in these regions.
POLARIN is an international network of polar research infrastructures and their services, aiming at addressing the scientific challenges of the polar regions. The network includes a wide array of complementary and interdisciplinary top level research infrastructures: Arctic and Antarctic research stations, research vessels and icebreakers operating at both poles, observatories, data infrastructures and ice and sediment core repositories. POLARIN will provide integrated, challenge-driven, and combined access to these infrastructures to facilitate interdisciplinary research on complex processes. 
POLARIN will:
1.	Provide challenge-driven transnational access to a large portfolio of research infrastructures. 
2.	Improve the access to data by improving data availability and interoperability between data infrastructures. 
3.	Provide virtual access to data and data services. 
4.	Provide data products for the scientific community and decision makers.
5.	Train the young generation of polar researchers in optimally exploiting the infrastructures for their research.
6.	Duly advertise the services offered by POLARIN and engage the infrastructure users to share their research outcomes with society.


Land-Sea interface: Let’s observe together!

LandSeaLot will link together in situ, model and earth observations (EO) and connect related communities, citizens and initiatives such as Copernicus, ESA, EEA, GEOSS, EMODnet and the European Digital Twin of the Ocean. These observations will be used in a gap analysis to co-design a common land-sea interface observation strategy and an implementation plan. LandSeaLot participants will simultaneously work on improving: in situ and EO capabilities, models to reduce the model/observations gap and the integration of model, in situ and satellite data. Observation capacity will be increased through tested, improved and guided use of low-cost technology by citizens, facilitated by the network of European marinas. The technologies selected will be piloted in Integration Labs (ILs) together with improved and integrated in situ and EO observation techniques and model outputs. LandSeaLot ILs will cover selected areas in the Black, Aegean, Mediterranean, Atlantic, North and Baltic Seas, with a range of catchment, tidal and meteorological regimes. Experts and citizen science leaders will work in the ILs together with JERICO-RI, DANUBIUS-RI and ICOS-ERIC, and with regional policy makers and managers to tailor integrated observations that will provide them with information to manage societal challenges. These will include assessment of the lateral carbon flux and stock, plastics transfer, nutrients impact on primary production and eutrophication, supporting biodiversity conservation, improving modeling capability and supporting climate change adaptation (storm surge, floods, heat waves, coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion). Data generated in the ILs will be made FAIR available via EMODnet and interoperability, and semantic solutions for existing, international data flows will be developed. Relevant communities will be engaged by workshops, conferences, training, a high-tech summit and by a communication strategy including videos and policy briefs to ensure LandSeaLot’s legacy.

Material Science Innovation for Accelerated, Sustainable and Safe Implementation of Carbon Capture and Storage

MISSION-CCS presents a timely and unique doctoral network designed to deliver the next generation of highly trained researchers and entrepreneurs in the field of material science, specifically focused towards accelerating implementation of carbon capture and storage CCS technologies worldwide and ensuring the sustainable and safe operation of existing and future CCS systems.

The training network combines unique experimental system design and modelling approaches, state-of-the-art analytical technologies and techno-economic analysis to deliver a new generation of researchers and entrepreneurs. The programme of research training centres of delivering Doctoral Candidate Researchers (DCRs) with world-leading technical expertise in material science and engineering relevant to the entire CCS process. MISSION-CCS ensures that the subject-specific technical knowledge of each DCRs is under-pinned by inter-sectorial knowledge whilst also promoting wider innovation skills and relevant training on the techno-economics of CCS, developing experts with breadth of knowledge.

A central aim of the network is to forge a strong cohort culture, by ensuring that peer-to-peer learning and mutual support become the norm, in order to enhance experience. Research-led training activities are strengthened through a dynamic and interactive education based programme delivered by an internationally renowned consortium of academics and industrialists with complementary skills. As part of the training programme, subsequent to an introduction to CCS systems and the specific material science challenges, DCRs will gain knowledge of system design and optimisation, state-of-the-art analytical methods, theoretical modelling, techno-economics, and understand the challenges of exploiting their research. They will also acquire proficiency in project management, communication, entrepreneurship, and innovation; all essential attributes for any modern technical professional.

Optimisation of digital catch monitoring and reporting in European Fisheries

 OptiFish will strive to provide technological solutions that will simultaneously improve the sustainability of fisher’s operations, enhance control processes and strengthen society’s trust in their products.
OptiFish will develop, test and recommend a set of innovative technologies and tools supported by artificial intelligence (AI) to provide the management, the fishing sector and the scientist with data on catch volumes, catch compositions and the fishing environment. 
The goal is to unlock the full potential of technologies such as electronic and genetic monitoring for automated species recognition based on AI and computer vision to reduce discards, unreported landings and unreported fishing activities, ultimately establishing  a fisheries control and enforcement system fit for the digital age. The technologies are not enough alone, it is also critical to consider the combination of technologies and the integration of computer vision models, the wide range of data sources and their subsequent formats, while also addressing stakeholders needs and acceptance. 
This goal cannot be achieved by a single project, which is why the aim of OptiFish is to lay a solid foundation for full technological development from which other projects and initiatives can be built. The project will place a strong focus on species recognition in different fisheries equipped with distinctly different catch handling facilities and in different European sea basins. 
To ensure that these innovations are relevant to fisheries management, OptiFish has participation from the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, and has received written support from the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA), the Basque, Danish and Belgian Fisheries authorities.



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Batteri reknast for å vere ein avgjerande teknologi for å få til eitt klimanøytralt samfunn. Elektrifiseringa aukar i omfang og stadig nye nisjer treng batteri som er eigna for deira bruk, noko som krev ny og betre tilpassa batteri-teknologi. Bussar, tog, ferjer og stasjonærlagring treng batteri som er robuste, sikre, kan ladast raskt og som verkar slik dei skal både ved høge og låge temperaturar. 

Titandioksid er eitt materiale som gjer det mogleg å lage akkurat slike batteri. Når titania vert brukt som anode-material i Li-ion batteri, er ladetider under ti minutt, auka sikkerheit og svært låge kapasitetstap heilt ned til -20°C mogleg. Likevel er ikkje titandioksid eitt kommersialisert anode-materiale, og det er det TioTech arbeidar for å få til.
 
TioTech sin spesialitet er titandioksid og produksjonen av ulike variantar av materialet. I TASER-prosjektet har vi optimalisert prosessen og produktet vårt (TitanA) for bruk i batteri. Målet vårt er å lage eitt produkt som er enkelt å implementere i eksisterande batteriproduksjonar, og vi har difor undersøkt kva batterikjemi som er best eigna for vårt materiale. I TASER har vi samarbeidd med SINTEF om å teste og utvikle ei oppskrift som er tilpassa vårt produkt. 

Ein viktig milepæl vi har nådd i løpet av prosjektet er at vi har produsert batteri (1 og 5Ah poseceller) med TitanA både på SINTEF si pilotlinje og på ei kommersiell produksjonslinje. Prosjektet har gitt verdifulle resultat for TioTech og vi har tatt eit stort steg framover både når det gjeld optimalisering av produktet og valideringa av TitanA som anodematerial i industrielt relevante batteritypar. Resultata er viktige for TioTech sin suksess i kommersialiseringa av titandioksid som anodematerial, som vil gje ei betre og meir bærekraftig batteriløysing for samfunnet.

The ongoing electrification of society expands the use of batteries into new markets, like heavy-duty and marine electromobility and grid storage of renewable energy. In order to meet the need for rapid electrification of these applications within the Paris climate accord, new or improved battery solutions giving high-power, fast-charging and robust batteries have to be developed. 

Titania is a material pointed out to be able to do just this, with results demonstrating that charging times below 10 minutes, increased safety and very low capacity losses even at -20°C are achievable. However, titania anode materials are not yet a commercially available solution, mainly due to cost-ineffective production methods and low practically achieved capacities. Within this project, TioTech will leverage from the company`s extensive know-how about titania nanomaterials and its manufacturing to optimise a production process for a titania anode material suitable for processing in battery cell manufacturing. The material`s corresponding battery chemistry will be developed in collaboration with SINTEF, resulting in a titania drop-in solution for existing battery cell producers.

Titania Anodes for Sustainable, High-Power Batteries

Sjå føre deg at batteri kan ladast opp på mindre enn 10 minutt - korleis kan det akselerere det grøne skiftet?
Batteri reknast som å vere ein avgjerande teknologi for å få til eit klimanøytralt samfunn. Men dagens litium-ionebatteri kan ikkje ladast raskt nok for å møte krava til den grønne framtida. Eksisterande alternative løysingar har ikkje høg nok energitettleik eller er for dyre. Det har òg vist seg vanskeleg å forbetre hurtigladinga av batteri samstundes som ein held sikkerheit, levetid og temperaturtoleranse ved lag.   
TioTech og SINTEF sitt mål for «Bronze Titan» er nettopp å utvikle eit titandioksidbasert materiale som gjer batteri evne til å ladast på få minutt OG betrar levetida og sikkerheiten og utvidar brukstemperaturen. Internasjonal forskning på ulike former for titandioksid har vist at materialet kan gje batteri ladetider under ti minutt, forbetra sikkerheit og høg kapasitet i temperaturar ned til -20°C. Kommersialisering av materialet har likevel vorte halde tilbake, hovudsakleg fordi framstillingsmetodane baserer seg på svært dyre råmateriale eller har høge prosesstemperaturar, som òg aukar produksjonskostnaden. 
Basert på lang og omfattande erfaring med å modifisere, produsere og kommersialisere titandioksid, skal TioTech utvikle ein enkel prosess for billeg titandioksid. Materialet vil vere skreddarsydd for å gje dei beste anodane for hurtigladande litium-ionebatteri. I prosjektet "Bronze Titan" skal TioTech og SINTEF òg finne den best eigna anodekjemien for materialet og kommersialisere løysinga. Ved å gjere hurtiglading mogleg kan større delar av samfunnet sin infrastruktur elektrifiserast og det grøne skiftet kan gå raskare.
Eitt år inn i prosjektet har TioTech hatt god framdrift mot å utvikle eitt titandioksid material som kan erstatte LTO, den i dag dominerande teknologien for Li-ione batteri som er hurtigladande, sikre, har lang levetid og svært god toleranse for ekstreme temperaturar.

The BronzeTitan project will develop a new production process for a battery material for lithium ion batteries called titania bronze. Compared to existing solutions, this material has been shown to give faster charging, higher safety, better low temperature performance and long lifetimes in academic studies, but no-one has managed to synthesise it in a cost-efficient manner. In this project TioTech will develop a manufacturing process for titanium dioxide to yield nanomaterials with the correct atomic structure and electrochemical properties and understand how particle size and shape affect the properties of the battery material. 
Bronze is a metastable material, that means that it can spontaneously convert into a less desireable form of titanium dioxide, anatase. A key challenge in the project is therefore to tune the process so that the amount of anatase is kept at a miniumum and the conversion from bronze to anatase is suppressed. Similarly, to achieve high charging speeds, we need to limit the size of the particles, but this has a negative effect on the usable capacity of the material as the increased surface area means more reactions can happen at the surface and limit the lifetime. In order to reach our goals we will therefore have to optimise both the size and shape of the nanoparticles, their internal structure and look at smart ways of limiting, or passivating, the surface so that the life time of the battery is kept high.
In the first part of the project, TioTech will deliver particles with different shape, size and surface treatments for SINTEF to carry out initial testing and validation. Once a suitable formulation is found, TioTech will perform the early steps of scale up and validate the production technology at larger scales.

Commercialising bronze titania for safe, fast charging and sustainable Li-ion batteries

The use of timber has a long tradition in Norwegian building design but has had its limitations in urban architecture due to technical deficiencies regarding biodegradation and fire safety. During the last years, however, Norwegian architects have been showing a strong interest to use wood as façade material for public buildings, such as kindergartens or schools, and in tall residential buildings. This development is mainly driven by two factors: firstly, the political will to increase the use of timber as construction material especially in urban areas due to the environmental credentials of wood. Secondly, the real estate prices in larger Norwegian cities are among the highest in the world, consequently, more multi-story buildings are built. Increasing the competitiveness of wood by overcoming its technical weaknesses is an important step to successfully implement wood as the preferred choice of façade material in urban architecture. In this regard, it is crucial to address a) color stability and b) fire safety.

The project aims at developing a wood modification method based on nano titanium dioxide (TiO2) and siloxanes. The applied TiO2 is photocatalytically active and will produce under the influence of daylight highly reactive radicals. The photocatalysis will suppress the growth of microorganisms and result in clean naturally weathered silvergrey facades. The treatment with siloxanes will provide water-protection to the wood and therewith keep the moisture levels lower than favored by mould or decay fungi, assisting the photocatalysis during periods without UV light. Both, the TiO2 and the siloxanes, will covalently and therewith permanently bind to the wooden substrate, resulting in a durable product and adding the benefit of an enhanced flame retardance. In addition, the nano titanium dioxide (TiO2) and siloxanes will combat air pollution. In summary, this innovation has great potential to significantly extend the use of wood in urban architecture.

Nano TiO2 modified photocatalytic wood in urban architecture

This project is a collaboration between nano-TiO2 manufacturer Joma International AS and the nanomaterials and catalysis group at UiB, and is essentially a 3-year post-doc program.

The project aims to develop new and improved materials for photocatalysis, a process where the material acts as a catalyst allowing sunlight or UV-light to react with and break down organic pollutants near the material. A superior photocatalyst could even lead to sunlight splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, which would unlock a whole new techology for renewable energy.

The path to improving the photocatalytic activity is via hybrid materials, combining the best properties of two materials. 

Work in 2015 focused on synthesis of graphene, graphene oxide and 1st generation hybrid materials based on improved Hummers method and other methods from literature. The first syntheses gave a graphite/GO layer around the TiO2 that completely inhibited photactivity (even at 1:99 mass ratio). It was then found that simple additional steps gave the wanted transformation to graphene oxide. A minor breakthrough in the process development is that the same additive functions both as nanoparticle stabiliser during the process and as reducing agent for the graphite->graphene transformation. However the wanted activity increase was not achieved.

From 2016, work focused on TiO2-clay and TiO2-silica structures, using both synthetic and natural materials. In order to achieve compatibility of active photocatalysts with organic materials such as paints and polymers Joma and UiB worked together to create hybrid materials that trap titanium dioxide nanoparticles within a protective but permeable shield, similar to a cage. The idea is to allow pollution to enter the cage to be photocatalytically converted, while maintaining a separation of the photocatalyst from the polymer. Three types of structures were tested: hollow clay materials, engineered silica nanoporous materials and natural nanustructured minerals such as diamtomite. 

Towards the end of the project, there was finally a breakthrough in activity, with materials showing significant increase in NOx breakdown per gram of TiO2. This proves the potential of such hybrid structures. 
The best results were achieved using materials or methods not suitable for a direct commercial scale-up, but the potential is considered proven. In addition the learnings from the project have already inspired new solutions in using hybrid structures for smart delivery nanoparticles to chemcial or physical interfaces.

The project encompasses the research stage of the total development cycle, from ideas to labscale prototype materials.

The project is a 3 year project running 2014-2016, including 2 years of post-doc work. The project is considered to be fundamental rese arch in nanomaterials for environmental applications.

The project will be a close collaboration between Joma and UiB group for nanochemistry and catalysts, where the proximity and overlap of expertise will ensure both parties pull in the same direction.
 
The formal project will focus on materials development and characterization, predictive model building and process development, as well as securing IP. In parallel, Joma will work with potential customers and manufacturers.

The project will employ a pos t-doc in the UiB group and involve two professors in addition to the Joma technical staff (up to 4 PhDs).

The technical content of the project consists of several work packages:
-Literature and prior art searches, publication and patenting
-Manufacturing  1st generation graphene-tio2 photocatalysts 
-Developing new porous superstructures or carriers for photocatalysts
-Ongoing characterization of materials developed
-Experiment design, predictive model building and definition of model materials
-Manufactu re 2nd generation hybrid photocatalysts
-Process development (scalability, safety, costefficiency)

The project is considered fundamental research on nanomaterials, but with a clear route to commercial applications and the direction of the later stages wi ll be influenced by market demands and customer input.

F-MAT-Naturvitenskap, matematikk

Application for funding for a stay at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain in the spring of 2005 (frittstående prosjekt #155060)

Awarded: NOK 73,500

Funding scheme:

F-MAT-Naturvitenskap, matematikk

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