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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161
Description

AIDD is an integrated tool and a radically new way to discovery new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s, Epilepsy, Ageing, etc.).

Thematic areas
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Bio-informatics
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs
Energy and environmental sustainability
Energy and environmental sustainability / Simulation
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75
Description

A virtuous multi-step biorefinery platform to convert urban biowaste into valuable molecules, not disregarding renewable energy and digestate production. The strategy is based on the integration of a thermal pretreatment capable of significantly increasing the fraction of fermentable organic carbon, in order to furthermore change the status of the feedstock to become more suitable for production of a) high-value bio-based molecules, b) biomethane and c) hygienized digestate to be recycled as biofertilizer.

Thematic areas
Energy and environmental sustainability / Environmental engineering/technologies
Bioeconomy
Energy and environmental sustainability / Renewable sources
Chemicals & Physics / Organic substances
Energy and environmental sustainability / Energy production, transmission and conversion
Chemicals & Physics / Special chemicals
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Energy and environmental sustainability / Waste management
# Record card
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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95
Description

The proposed technology is based on the micro-fabrication of electrodes in order to generate surface acoustic waves (SAW) with well-defined frequencies, on piezoelectric substrates. The operating principle of a surface acoustic wave sensor is linked to the variation of the characteristics of the acoustic wave that propagates on the device (e.g. wave velocity on the substrate, etc.) caused by the interaction with the environment (e.g. interaction of an analyte on the surface of the device, deformation of the substrate, etc.).

Thematic areas
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Aerospace and Earth Science
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
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179
Description

Method for extracting, with high yield, phycobiliproteins from cyanobacterial and/or algal biomass, obtaining aqueous extracts characterized by high concentration of pigments (4-5 mg/mL)  and a purity, at least equal to food/cosmetic grade (P≥2).

Thematic areas
Agrifood
Agrifood / Nutrition & health
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Colours & dyes
Chemicals & Physics / Separation technologies
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Care, Hygiene, Cosmetics
# Record card
250
Description

22q11.2DS(DGS) deletion syndrome is a rare and phenotypically variable multiorgan syndrome, currently without any cure. Our aim is to develop a standardized approach to formulate pharmacological products useful for clinical trials direct to prevent some serious clinical manifestations of adolescence and adulthood, such as neuropsychiatric and musculoskeletal diseases, or to eliminate or improve cardiovascular defects during embryonic development.

Thematic areas
Health & Biotech
# Record card
72
Description

NIRS is a non-invasive technique for the human brain cortex imaging based on the measurement of the NIR light emitted by suitable optical sources placed on the patient head and backdiffused to the surface after passing through the brain tissues. NIRS monitors the percentage of oxygenated and reduced hemoglobin  in the blood, and it allows the real time functional imaging of the brain cortex also in tomographic mode (Diffuse Optical Tomography - DOT).

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
Health & Biotech / Medical imaging & equipment
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
# Record card
78
Description

INCIPIT technology allowed the implementation of a multifunctional, micro-structured and electroconductive therapeutic product to treat patients with myocardial infarction, the leading cause of death for cardiovascular disease.  Current therapies (drugs, bypass, angioplasty) do not restore the functionality of damaged myocardial tissue.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
Health & Biotech / Regenerative Medicine
Materials / Plastics, polymers
# Record card
7
Description

Uniform coverage with porous layers over extended surfaces is beneficial for many purposes. Depending on the nature/composition, thickness and interfaces of the layer, this kind of special coverage can assure pivotal properties such as transparency, bendability, high surface reactivity, intermixing capability. In the long list of desired porous materials, transparent oxides find application in the fields of Photovoltaics, Sensing, Photocatalysis, Water Purification and Splitting, Lithium Batteries and many more.

Thematic areas
Materials / Processes of production & treatment of materials
Materials / Photo-active & graphene-based materials
Materials / Semiconductors and Superconductors
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Energy and environmental sustainability / Renewable sources
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
Energy and environmental sustainability / Energy production, transmission and conversion
Materials / Composite and hybrid materials
ICT & Electronics / Nanotechnologies related to electronics and microelectronics
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
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56
Description

Mirrors for space applications, besides featuring suitable optical properties, should be light, resistant to mechanical stresses, and unsensitive to light-shadow thermal cycling. The standard optical materials easily fulfill optical and thermal requirements, but are fragile, and the mirrors must be thick (typically 1/6 of the diameter). For this reason they are heavy, and the only available solution is to lighten them, by removing material from the back side, still preserving the necessary mechanical robustness and optical quality.

Thematic areas
Aerospace and Earth Science / Aeronautical technologies and avionics
Aerospace and Earth Science / Satellite technologies
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Additive manufacturing processes and materials
Materials / Composite and hybrid materials
Materials / Optical materials
# Record card
102
Description

The procedure enables the fabrication of nanocomposite membranes filled with suitable amounts of exfoliated bidimensional crystals. These are obtained with an advanced wet-jet milling technique, which provides desired thickness and lateral size of nanofillers through the pulverization and colloidal homogenization of bulk nanomaterials. The bidimensional crystals are dispersed in fluids and suitably delivered inside polymeric matrixes exhibiting a singular morphology.

Thematic areas
Energy and environmental sustainability / Environmental engineering/technologies
Materials / Photo-active & graphene-based materials
Agrifood / Marine resources
Materials / Composite and hybrid materials
Chemicals & Physics / Separation technologies
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
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243
Description

This invention comprises an interrogation and readout differential method for chemical sensors based on Surface Plasmon Resonances (SPR). The integration of the SPR sensing unit (chip or other), as intermediate reflecting element of a Fabry-Perot (FP) optical resonator, is the starting point for the application of this method.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Laser technologies
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Archeometry
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
ICT & Electronics / Optics & Acoustic
Agrifood
Energy and environmental sustainability
Health & Biotech
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Factory of the Future
Measurement tools and Standards
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage
ICT & Electronics / Microwaves and RF
# Record card
74
Description

The object of the technology is the development of a transferable methodology from the laboratory scale to the pilot scale to be validated in the industrial setting for the treatment of basic waste of natural polymers of agro-food or manufacturing industry.

Thematic areas
Materials / Properties of materials, corrosion, degradation
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Packaging
Energy and environmental sustainability / Renewable sources
Chemicals & Physics / Plastics & rubber
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Energy and environmental sustainability / Waste management
Bioeconomy
# Record card
20
Description

Therapeutic strategies targeting cell cycle in cancer have in general failed in the clinic since the drugs have lacked the therapeutic index required to achieve a robust response against cancer cells with little or no cytotoxic effect on normal cells. NEK6 kinase, which is implicated in cell cycle control, has recently emerged as an attractive target for the development of novel anticancer drugs with enhanced therapeutic index.

Thematic areas
Health & Biotech / Bio-medicals
Health & Biotech / New therapies
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs