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  • Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA)

    The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Fraunhofer IPA, is a part of the Fraunhofer Society that includes 60 research institutes all over Germany. The Department Process Engineering of Functional Materials (formerly a part of the Fraunhofer TEG) has been specialising in processing of carbon nanoparticles, in particular carbon nanotubes, and development of new applications for these materials since 2000. As the background of the core staff is in mechatronics, the department was initially focused on the development of carbon nanotube actuators where it has also reserved one of the main patents (WO002004030210A1, published on 08.04.2004). Over the years the range of applications has been extended from actuators to carbon nanotube composites, lacquers, polymers, ceramics, and metals.
    The main breakthrough for the department came with the development of carbon nanotube dispersions. This expertise is crucial for the production of carbon nanotube and other nanofiller based materials.
    The participating members of the Fraunhofer IPA build the Project Management Committee in the following persons:

    Urszula Kosidlo – Project Coordinator

    Carsten Glanz – Project Manager

    Bojan Boskovic – Exploitation Manager

    http://ipa.fraunhofer.de

  • Centro Ricerche Fiat S.C.p.A.

    Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF) was established in 1978 as a center of expertise for innovation, research and development. Recognized internationally as a center of excellence (with its principal site located in Orbassano, near Turin), CRF’s mission is to provide a strategic lever for Fiat businesses. With approximately 1,000 employees, CRF draws on a broad array of technical skills and a series of state-of-the-art laboratories for testing powertrain systems and electromagnetic compatibility, and conducting NVH analyses and driving simulations.
    CRF has achieved significant results over the years, with 3,200 patents registered and pending, and a global network of over 1,600 industrial partners, universities and research centers that further strengthen the Center’s innovation strategies, facilitate local implementation of projects and enable development of specialized know-how.
    Particularly active in the area of sustainable mobility, CRF studies innovative solutions through a 360-degree approach to mobility encompassing vehicles, components, energy, safety, telematics, innovative materials and related technologies, mechatronics and optics, as well as innovative concepts in engine technology, alternative propulsion systems and transmissions.

    Links: www.crf.it

     

  • Danubia NanoTech s.r.o. (Ltd.)

    Danubia NanoTech s.r.o. (Ltd.)

    Danubia NanoTech s.r.o. (Ltd.) was founded in 2004 for the purpose of exploitation of current scientific knowledge in the field of nanotechnology and its commercialization. The company is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia. The founders of Danubia NanoTech are physicists with considerable experience in nano-science and nanotechnology. The offered expertise is particularly in the field of low dimensional carbon structures: carbon nanotubes and graphene. They are co-authors of hundreds of publications in the field of carbon nanotube research, and some of the founders share ownership of five patents. The members of the group have been active at well-established institutions among them Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Germany), University Vienna (Austria), Wake Forest University (USA), Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and others. The company is a member of the Centre of Excellence of Nano/Micro-electronic, Optoelectronic and Sensoric Technologies supported by the Slovak government. The company has participated in EU project SPANG and national projects. Currently, DNT supervises several PhDs and one PostDoc student. Significant experience in large area graphene production, manipulation and its characterization has been acquired in the last year.

  • Institute of Occupational Medicine

    Institute of Occupational Medicine

    IOM is one of Europe’s largest independent centres of expertise in occupational and environmental health, hygiene and risk, and has a track-record in the area of nanomaterials safety. IOM co-founded the Safety of Nanomaterials Interdisciplinary Research Centre (SnIRC), and leads the SAFENANO Initiative, to address the many uncertainties about the potential risks to health and the environment arising from exposure to nanomaterials. IOM is either coordinating or collaborating in nine currently running FP7 projects focussed on nanoparticle risk issues, including the large-scale industry-led Nancore project where we lead the health and safety work package.

    http://www.iom-world.org
    http://www.Safenano.org

  • Instituto Nacional del Carbon

    Instituto Nacional del Carbon - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-CSIC is an organism attached to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation-MICINN.
    The CSIC is the largest public research institution in Spain and it covers several fields from basic research through to advanced technological development. It is organised into eight scientific and technical areas and Instituto Nacional del Carbón-INCAR is included, with ten other Institutes, within the area of Chemistry and Chemical Technology.
    INCAR-CSIC is managed by one director and two vice-directors, assisted by a Council Board. At present, INCAR-CSIC is organised into three Research Departments, two Support Units and one Administration Division. The staffs are composed of 32 scientists, 43 technical staff and 56 temporary members and research students in different stages of training.
    Actually, INCAR-CSIC performs an important activity on the development of new carbon materials, whose structural, textural, electrical, electrochemical and catalytic properties are investigated for the most modern applications, from composites to supercapacitors. One of the research groups of the Department of Coal, Energy and Environment is led by Dr. Teresa Álvarez Centeno and carries out scientific research in the fields of preparation of porous carbons, the characterization of porosity and surface chemistry of these materials and their use in supercapacitors.

    Note: Currently, INCAR website is under construction
    but corresponding CSIC website can be accessed under www.csic.es

  • Maxwell Technologies SA

    Maxwell Technologies SA

    Maxwell Technologies is an innovative technology and manufacturing corporation with more than 100 issued patents and more applications in the USPTO under consideration and pending. Maxwell has built a team of scientists and operations experts to translate new ideas into the reality of high quality affordable products. Maxwell has all necessary facilities, skill sets and personnel in place to take a successful research opportunity through commercialization should that opportunity present itself in the future. Maxwell has built its supercapacitor business around a proprietary dry electrode processing technology for energy storage electrodes for both supercapacitors and lithium ion batteries alike. This technology offers an environmentally friendly, low cost alternative to conventional slurry, cast, or solvent extruded processes. The dry processing technology is roughly an order of magnitude lower in cost compared with conventional slurry coating/extrusion processes.
    Using this process Maxwell fabricate more than 7-million meters of supercapacitor electrode last year alone; this year (FY10) production of electrode will nearly double that output all while using a plant floor space of only 1’850m2. While this capability does not apply directly to this program, it does illustrate the progressive cutting edge technology that Maxwell is capable of developing and then exploiting to the benefit of customers and the company alike. Maxwell manufactures supercapacitors and modules in several different form factors using processes which are both ISO 9000 and ISO/TS 16949 certified. Our supercapacitors range from a 10-farad to the large 3,000-farad cells. We manufacture supercapacitor modules in rated voltages from 15V to 125V as wells as power densities from 4.4 kW/kg to 14.0 kW/kg with peak current capabilities of 80-amps to 3,930-amps.

  • The Université Paris Diderot

    The Université Paris Diderot –Paris 7

    The Université Paris Diderot –Paris 7 is a leading multidisciplinary university in France, gathering 26,000 students, 1,800 academic staff, and 125 research laboratories. The University has recently moved to brand new campus which offers high level facilities and infrastructure for the project, including IT environment (wifi access), meeting and conference rooms, access to the University’s new library (nearly 275,000 volumes available on open access), and a special administrative team dedicated to European Research and Development projects. New building for visiting researchers is near the campus.
    This project will be carried out in the research laboratory ITODYS (Interfaces, Traitements, Organisation et DYnamique de Systèmes) a joint research unit UMR 7086 CNRS and Université Paris Diderot –Paris 7. ITODYS is a multidisciplinary laboratory of Université Paris –Diderot and CNRS. During the last national evaluation (in 2008), ITODYS laboratory has an “A” ranking, a label indicating the high level of its research activities. Most of the research members of ITODYS (more than 100 permanent Scientists) work in the field of electrochemistry, design and synthesis of new polymerisable monomers, conducting polymers, synthesis of room temperature ionic liquids, surface analysis, surface modification, electrochemical actuator, photovoltaic, charge transport in organic materials, quantum and numerical modelling, synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials.
    Within ITODYS laboratory, all members of the NanoElectrochemistry group will participate in the ElectroGraph project (Prof. Hyacinthe Randriamahazaka, Dr. Gaëlle Trippé-Allard, Dr. Pascal Martin, Dr. Jalal Ghilane, and Prof. Jean-Christophe Lacroix). NanoElectrochemistry group aims to develop integrated systems involving charge transfer such as supercapacitors, electrochemical actuators, photovoltaic systems, molecular electronics, molecular magnetism, active plasmonic devices, and actuator-sensor chains.

  • The University of Exeter

    The University of Exeter

    The University of Exeter is one of leading academic institution in the UK that recently established Graphene Research Centre, which is the part of the Exeter University, one of only two in the UK, with £5m government funding. This centre will be directly linked to this project and will be able to provide all necessary support that is needed in terms of access to facilities for graphene nanomaterials and nanocomposite synthesis, clean rooms and nanomaterials processing.

  • The University of Nottingham

    The University of Nottingham

    The research activities proposed will be undertaken in collaboration between the Polymer Composites Research Group and Advanced Materials Research Group, both within the Division of Materials, Mechanics and Structures in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham.
    The Polymer Composites Research Group, has developed, over the past 30 years, a well established track record in composites research and has extensive facilities. It comprises 10 academic staff, 2 technical staff and over 30 research workers. The group has been particularly active in developing recycling processes for composite materials for over 15 years and funding for composites recycling research has now exceeded £2 million. The main focus of the research has been on the recycling of thermoset composites. Current research is focusing on the recycling of carbon fibre composites, recovering high quality fibres and processing them into a form suitable for re-use in high grade applications. New recycling processes, including the use of supercritical fluids, are being developed which have the potential to recover useful chemical products. The Advanced Materials Research Group carries out research at the forefront of materials' processing, and at the interface of materials' science and engineering. The research is underpinned by state-of-the-art materials processing, and characterisation facilities. The mission is to control the synthesis and processing conditions of advanced materials to design-in functionality, shape and smartness at the macroscopic and microscopic scales, and increasingly at the nano-scale. Funding is attracted from industry, the defence agencies, and the national Research Councils and European agencies and there are collaborations of the highest calibre which cut across the international academic and industrial materials' communities.

  • Trinity College Dublin

    Trinity College Dublin

    Trinity College is the only Irish university to rank in the top half of the 100 world’s top universities and is ranked 13th amongst the top 50 European universities by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) university league tables. In 2007/08, TCD secured €71.1 million in research income.
    The Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) as the leading Irish nanoscience institute, centrally located at TCD within a purpose-built facility with state-of-the-art laboratories specifically designed to meet the challenging requirements of nanoscience research. CRANN’s mission is to deliver world class nanoscience, provide to industry partners and develop economic benefit for the Irish economy and Europe. CRANN currently embeds 17 internationally recognised world class principle investigator teams with large scale research activities (over 200+ active researchers). CRANN PIs have published over 750 articles in leading journals, with citation levels in excess of 8,000. The average h-index across CRANN PIs is ~ 20 and the average citation level for a CRANN paper is ten or more. Over the last seven years, CRANN PIs have successfully won competitive funding awards (at the national and European levels) of 84.5 million in the key areas of the nano-electronics, nano-materials, magnetic and sensors. CRANN is the founding and lead partner in the all-Ireland INSPIRE Nanotechnology consortium driving nanoscience implementation in Ireland (http://www.inspirenano.com/). This consortium won the largest single Irish PRTLI award of over €32M and involves all the major nanoscience contributors in Ireland. CRANN has invested heavily in the establishment of state-of-the art facilities that SAGES researchers will have access to and support from technical and instrumentation specialists. Included are TEM, He-ion microscope, SEMs, FIBs and a research clean-room capable of manufacturing sub-30nm devices, an ultra-fast photonics laboratory, and laboratories providing ultra quiet space for leading STM, AFM etc.
    The architecture and synthesis of integrated nanostructures (ASIN) group at the CRANN, led by Professor G. S. Duesberg, is primarily concerned with the synthesis of carbon nano-structures. Characterisation of the latter is aided by the state-of-the-art facilities available at the CRANN, which include equipment for HRSEM, HRTEM and He-ion microscopy.