The project will develop and fabricate clay micro-/nano-capsules for non-toxic transport and controlled delivery of nanoparticles or molecules (such as bioactive agents) in droplets.
Advantages of clay particles for many applications are due to their easy modification and nano-scale functionalization.
Clays are unique in combining pronounced 2D shape anisotropy, high ionic exchange, molecular sorption capacity and huge effective surface areas with a "patchy" functionality at the nano-scale.
Clay minerals are natural, they are proven stable during geological timescales, they are ?green? and non-toxic and in terms of morphology they are the natural sibling of graphene oxide.
This extraordinary property profile of clays bears a large unexploited potential in materials technology, so the research in this project might have a short way to real-life applications.
The project has 5 Work Pakckages:
WP1 Characterization of clay nanolayers;
WP2 Wrapping with clay nanolayers;
WP3 Intercalation in nanolayered clay stacks;
WP4 Dissemination and RRI; WP5 Project management.
The project partners and R&D suppliers are from NTNU-physics and University of Oslo - Chemistry.
International project participants are from Univ. Bayreuth-Germany, Univ. Sao Paulo-Brazil, Univ. Copenhagen-Denmark, ISIS-UK, Chalmers Univ. Tech. - Sweden, ESPCI-ParisTech-France. In the advisory group there are participants from relevant industry and materials science.
The proposed project will develop and fabricate clay micro-/nano-capsules for non-toxic transport and controlled delivery of nanoparticles or molecules (such as bioactive agents) in droplets.
Advantages of clay particles for many applications are due to their easy modification and nano-scale functionalization.
Clays are unique in combining pronounced 2D shape anisotropy, high ionic exchange, molecular sorption capacity and huge effective surface areas with a “patchy” functionality at the nano-scale.
Clay minerals are natural, they are proven stable during geological timescales, they are “green” and non-toxic and in terms of morphology they are the natural sibling of graphene oxide.
This extraordinary property profile of clays bears a large unexploited potential in materials technology, so the research in this project might have a short way to real-life applications.
The project has 5 Work Pakckages:
WP1 Characterization of clay nanolayers;
WP2 Wrapping with clay nanolayers;
WP3 Intercalation in nanolayered clay stacks;
WP4 Dissemination and RRI; WP5 Project management.
The project partners and R&D suppliers are from NTNU-physics and University of Oslo - Chemistry.
International project participants are from Univ. Bayreuth-Germany, Univ. Sao Paulo-Brazil, Univ. Copenhagen-Denmark, ISIS-UK, Chalmers Univ. Tech. - Sweden, ESPCI-ParisTech-France. In the advisory group there are participants from relevant industry and materials science.