A research project in which the National Research and Development Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technologies (INCDTIM) is a partner, recently won a European funding of EUR 1.5 million through the EU research and development program M-ERA.NET, the INCDTIM budget being of EUR 200,000 – see http://www.insbioration.de/home/.
The project ”Bio-inspired interfaces for the development of next generation degradable multi-phase materials – InsBIOration” will be implemented within a consortium which also includes Leibniz Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V (coordinator), CNRS Institut Charles Sadron Strassbourg, National Institute of Chemistry Ljublijana, University of Turku Finland and Kunststofftechnik Bernt GmbH, having also BASF Chemetall GmbH, KTB Kunststofftechnik Bernt GmbH and Plasmatreat GmbH as associated partners.
The main goal of the project is to implement a complete innovation-chain, from the fundamental understanding of the adhesion mechanism of polydopamine, to the manufacture of prototypes of multiphase materials for antipathogenic surfaces, batteries, supercapacitors and polymer-metal hybrids and to the development of decomposition strategies and biodegradation.