Technologies

In this section it is possible to view, also through targeted research, the technologies inserted in the PROMO-TT Database. For further information on the technologies and to contact the CNR Research Teams who developed them, it is necessary to contact the Project Manager (see the references at the bottom of each record card).

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Description

Bivalve mollusc shells are made mainly of CaCO3 (ca 95%), with a small fraction of organic material. If from these shells this mineral is retrieved, they could become a renewable and sustainable “mine” of a “blue” CaCO3. Bivalve mollusc shells, also after the removal of the animal flesh, maintain a certain quantity of organic substances, part in the muscle and part in the shell.

Thematic areas
Bioeconomy
Energy and environmental sustainability
Energy and environmental sustainability / Renewable sources
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Care, Hygiene, Cosmetics
Energy and environmental sustainability / Waste management
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Additive manufacturing processes and materials
Materials
Materials / Ceramic materials
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Materials / Paper technology
Materials / Plastics, polymers
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89
Description

Nowadays, to properly design and develop advanced materials capable to preserve for long times their performance under aggressive environments such as power generation plants, renewables, nuclear reactors and electronics of new generation, transport on ground and on space, aeronautics, catalysis, biomedical implants, the optimization of metallurgical processes involved is crucial.

Thematic areas
Aerospace and Earth Science / Space sciences
Aerospace and Earth Science / Aeronautical technologies and avionics
Aerospace and Earth Science / Satellite technologies
Automotive transport and logistics / Vehicles
Automotive transport and logistics / Shipbuilding
Automotive transport and logistics / Propulsion
Automotive transport and logistics / Transport infrastructures
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Additive manufacturing processes and materials
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Vacuum/High vacuum technologies
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Man made fibres
Chemicals & Physics / Special chemicals
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Materials / Building materials
Materials / Ceramic materials
Materials / Composite and hybrid materials
Materials / Metals & alloys
Materials / Properties of materials, corrosion, degradation
Materials / Semiconductors and Superconductors
Energy and environmental sustainability / Renewable sources
Energy and environmental sustainability / Rational use of energy
Energy and environmental sustainability / Nuclear fission/nuclear fusion
Energy and environmental sustainability / Cleaner use of fossil fuels
Energy and environmental sustainability / Nuclear engineering
Energy and environmental sustainability / Safety and security
Energy and environmental sustainability / Environmental engineering/technologies
Energy and environmental sustainability / Building materials
Health & Biotech / Bio-medicals
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Description

CNR-ISTEC develops geopolymer composites for thermostructural applications, such as: self-supporting cavities; thermal and acoustic insulation; thermal and fire barriers; high temperature coatings and damping; molds and cores for foundry; foams and refractory linings. Geopolymers are chemically bonded materials at T <300 ° C. Being inorganic polymers without water in the structure, they tolerate high temperatures: they are incombustible, do not emit gas or fumes and do not explode.

Thematic areas
Materials / Building materials
Materials / Ceramic materials
Materials / Composite and hybrid materials
Automotive transport and logistics / Vehicles
Automotive transport and logistics / Shipbuilding
Automotive transport and logistics / Propulsion
Aerospace and Earth Science / Aeronautical technologies and avionics
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Description

Geopolymers are synthetic inorganic polymers obtained from an aluminosilicate powder and an aqueous solution of alkaline hydroxides or silicates. The material is mesoporous and a multidimensional and functional porosity can be generated through the addition of fillers or the use of specific techniques.

The mix-design of the mixture, pure or composite, allows to change the chemical-physical properties of the final material, also thanks to the nucleation of zeolitic phases. Geopolymers also possess ion exchange and electrostatic interaction capabilities.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Materials / Ceramic materials
Materials / Composite and hybrid materials
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
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Description

VisLab laboratory of IMM possesses a latest generation Raman micro-spectroscope equipped for vibrational measurements with high spatial and spectral resolution, at controlled temperature and in fast-imaging. The apparatus can be used to collect information and chemico-physical maps without the need for sample preparation and alteration, therefore for non-destructive studies and in operating conditions.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
ICT & Electronics / Nanotechnologies related to electronics and microelectronics
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Organic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Man made fibres
Chemicals & Physics / Plastics & rubber
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
Materials / Plastics, polymers
Chemicals & Physics / Imaging & image processing
Materials / Properties of materials, corrosion, degradation
Materials / Processes of production & treatment of materials
Materials / Photo-active & graphene-based materials
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Materials / Semiconductors and Superconductors
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Nanomedicine
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
Health & Biotech / Micro and nanotechnology related to biological sciences
Health & Biotech / Medical imaging & equipment
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
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257
Description

Flow technologies for the synthesis of chemical intermediates have great potential at the industrial level and the synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) can speed up the development of new products. In this context, we could find the technology for the synthesis of NPs. The NPs (Au, Ag, or Pt) are synthesized in a single step and are functionalized with polymeric stabilizers (such as PVP, PVA, PEG, or others) or with thio-glycosidic fragments.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
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Description

Chemical solution deposition of metal-organic precursors have favoured the research and development of thin films of simple and complex oxides such as Pb(Zr,Ti)O3, and Al2O3, up to their industrial application in pyroelectric and capacitor devices. Deposition methods used are spin-on and dip-coating. The advantages of the techniques are:

(i) low cost of equipment and chemicals

(ii) large area deposition

(iii) low crystallisation temperatures

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Materials / Ceramic materials
Materials / Semiconductors and Superconductors
Materials / Glass
Materials / Optical materials
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258
Description

The development of new materials with near-infrared emission (NIR, 700 – 1000 nm) represent an important target in the technological progress of innovative active components for OLED devices (including flexible ones), surveillance systems, autonomous driving, night vision sensors, fiber optic telecommunications and medical systems. In all these fields it still lacks a commercial NIR-OLED technology.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
Energy and environmental sustainability
Energy and environmental sustainability / Environmental engineering/technologies
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Chemicals & Physics / Organic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Colours & dyes
Materials
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Description

Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (SSNMR) is today one of the most powerful techniques for characterizing solid and soft materials and systems. This spectroscopy allows the detailed characterization of structural and dynamic properties over large spatial (0.1-100 nm) and time (102-10-11 s) scales. Accessing these properties allows a deep knowledge of a material to be obtained and  its design and optimization to be oriented.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
ICT & Electronics / Nanotechnologies related to electronics and microelectronics
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Packaging
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Additive manufacturing processes and materials
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Factory of the Future
Materials
Materials / Wood products
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Nanomedicine
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs
Health & Biotech / Regenerative Medicine
Health & Biotech / Care, Hygiene, Cosmetics
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Technologies for preservation of cultural heritage
Aerospace and Earth Science
Aerospace and Earth Science / Aeronautical technologies and avionics
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Multimedia technologies
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Archaeology
Agrifood
Agrifood / Agriculture
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Automotive transport and logistics
Automotive transport and logistics / Vehicles
Automotive transport and logistics / Shipbuilding
Automotive transport and logistics / Innovative fuels
Chemicals & Physics
Energy and environmental sustainability
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Description

The Open Chemistry Database, OChemDb, is a web portal for the research and analysis of crystallochemical information relating to organic, inorganic, metallorganic compounds, and provides statistical information on bond distances, bond angles, torsion angles, types of atoms and space groups. To obtain the above information, OChemDb queries a database, appropriately designed, that contains crystalline structures already resolved.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Organic substances
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24
Description

Combinations of several enzymes in a production chain are preferred to “first generation” enzymatic processes (where the "single reaction - single enzyme" principle was followed), for the synthesis of compounds with high added value starting from simple and cheap substrates. An important requirement for obtaining control in "cascade enzymatic reactions" is the ability to deliver from one biocatalyst to the next one the various intermediates, limiting as much as possible the diffusion of the latter in the solvent.

Thematic areas
Materials / Processes of production & treatment of materials
Agrifood / Agriculture
Agrifood / Nutrition & health
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs
Health & Biotech / Care, Hygiene, Cosmetics
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
Health & Biotech / Micro and nanotechnology related to biological sciences
Chemicals & Physics / Agro chemicals
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Organic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Special chemicals
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Materials / Plastics, polymers
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175
Description

The invention is a synthetic method to prepare colloidal nanomaterials of V-VI-VII semiconductors that do not contain toxic elements. This is the first method for the synthesis of mixed anion nanomaterials without toxic elements at large, which permitted to obtain, among others, bismuth chalcohalide nanocrystals that are arguably considered as one of main candidates to be the next big thing for light energy conversion.

Thematic areas
Materials
Materials / Processes of production & treatment of materials
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Materials / Semiconductors and Superconductors
Energy and environmental sustainability
Energy and environmental sustainability / Renewable sources
Energy and environmental sustainability / Energy production, transmission and conversion
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Nanotechnologies related to electronics and microelectronics
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Colours & dyes
Materials / Composite and hybrid materials
Materials / Optical materials
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Description

EXPO is a software for the determination of the atomic structure of various materials (organic, metallorganic, inorganic), available in the form of microcrystalline powders, in order to derive the structure-property relationships. EXPO requires the molecular formula of the material, the experimental X-ray diffraction data and, in some cases, the expected molecular geometry.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Organic substances
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs
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23
Description

QUALX is a software for qualitative and semi-quantitative phase analysis of materials (organic, metallorganic, inorganic), available in the form of microcrystalline powders. It uses a database distributed together with the software. QUALX identifies the crystalline chemical phase, one or more of than one, present in a material and determines approximately the weight percentages of each phase present in a mixture.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Organic substances
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs
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79
Description

Our team can develop low-cost ultra-flexible sensors integrated on plastic substrate for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and gas detection. These devices combine scalable fabrication technologies, implementing active materials such as nanostructured metal oxides or stack of nanostructures decorated with metal nanoparticles, thus enabling a high sensitivity (in the range of hundreds of ppb). These devices can be applied to numerous industrial and commercial sectors and they can be embedded in systems that are more sophisticated.

Thematic areas
Materials / Semiconductors and Superconductors
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Agrifood / Agriculture
Health & Biotech / Nanomedicine
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
ICT & Electronics / Nanotechnologies related to electronics and microelectronics
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Organic substances
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
Materials / Plastics, polymers