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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# Record card
173
Description

Organotypic models of ovarian cancer are 3D models containing defined extracellular matrices, such as collagen and fibronectin, ovarian cancer cells with specific genetic/molecular characteristics, and one or more cancer-associated stromal cell types (fibroblasts, mesothelial cells, endothelial cells) to mimic specific metastatic niches of ovarian cancer (omentum, peritoneum, interstitial stroma) and the complex interactions within tumor tissues.

Thematic areas
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Bio-medicals
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs
# Record card
242
Description

4Ts Game was born in ITD in 2017 to indicate a board game for teacher training, which aims to develop skills in designing collaborative learning activities. The game was originally conceived as a 'tangible' game, consisting of a board and 4 decks of paper cards which contain inputs that guide the teachers/players' design process. Subsequently the game evolved and was developed in its digital version. In this version, developed in Unity and with an underlying knowledge base in Prolog, the game is able to provide feedback to teachers regarding the design/game choices made.

Thematic areas
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage
ICT & Electronics
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Technologies for preservation of cultural heritage
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Education & learning
ICT & Electronics / IT and Telematics applications
ICT & Electronics / Augmented Reality
ICT & Electronics / Multimedia
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Socio-economic models
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Multimedia technologies
# Record card
83
Description

Aptamers, short structured single-stranded oligonucleotides binding at high affinity to a given target protein, are selected from large combinatorial libraries through repeated cycles of incubation of the library with the target, recovery and amplification of target-bound oligonucleotides (SELEX technology, Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment). SELEX can be applied to select aptamers against a known target protein or against a specific cell phenotype, without any prior knowledge of the specific target, leading to new biomarkers discovery.

Thematic areas
Health & Biotech / Micro and nanotechnology related to biological sciences
Health & Biotech / Bio-medicals
Health & Biotech / New therapies
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic kits
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Nanomedicine
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
# Record card
251
Description

The insertion of executable programs within QR codes is a new enabling technology for many application contexts in everyday life. Every time Internet access is unavailable, QR code usage is limited to reading the data it contains without any possibility of interaction.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Cybersecurity
ICT & Electronics / Smart cities and Communities
ICT & Electronics / Future Internet
ICT & Electronics / Robotics and control systems
ICT & Electronics / Augmented Reality
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic kits
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Technologies for preservation of cultural heritage
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Education & learning
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Entertainment
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Tourism
Aerospace and Earth Science
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Socio-economic models
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Multimedia technologies
Agrifood
Agrifood / Nutrition & health
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Automotive transport and logistics
Chemicals & Physics
Energy and environmental sustainability
ICT & Electronics / Information processing, information system, workflow management
ICT & Electronics / IT and Telematics applications
ICT & Electronics / Multimedia
# Record card
248
Description

The technology based on cell or tissue cultures is very useful for the production of bioactive compounds. These molecules, depending on the class they belong to, can be used in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry. In particular, the developed technology is addressed to the optimization of bioactive compounds in plant cell/tissue cultures having the biosynthetic pathway of the compound of interest.

Thematic areas
Agrifood
Agrifood / Nutrition & health
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs
# Record card
60
Description

We propose a compact innovative spectroscopy system operating in the UV range. In the actual version, designed for gas, it exhibits: an aluminium tubular optical chamber (length can be adjusted; currently is 20 cm); a cheap commercial UV LED; a SiC visible blind UV detector designed and manufactured at the CNR-IMM facilities. The team developed also the electronic chain for wireless remote real time read out; while able to deal with pA current levels, it uses very cheap components and construction technology.

Thematic areas
Energy and environmental sustainability / Environmental engineering/technologies
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Agrifood / Agriculture
ICT & Electronics / Internet of Things
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
# Record card
182
Description

An innovative approach for the treatment of diabetic and venous ulcers, characterized by a difficult healing process and therefore at potential risk of infection and therefore of hospitalization and amputation of the limb, is represented by the local administration of "bioactive" factors through the use of synthetic and/or biological matrices that allow a gradual and controlled release in order to obtain a better and faster healing.

Thematic areas
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Bio-medicals
Health & Biotech / New therapies
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
Health & Biotech / Regenerative Medicine
# 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
259
Description

Design and testing of neoproteins with optimized nutritional value, according to needs, avoiding their degradation - thus maintaining a high production yield - and aggregation (which could make them indigestible). Neoproteins are produced and characterized in plant systems as bioreactors. We have already created zeolin, formed by the fusion of a bean seed protein with a portion of a maize seed protein.

Thematic areas
Agrifood
Agrifood / Agriculture
Agrifood / Nutrition & health
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
# Record card
237
Description

The proposed technology is based on the concept of Power-Over-Fibre (PoF), which involves the transmission of data and power over an optical fiber. This technology is suitable for applications where traditional copper cabling is impractical or undesirable. This is the case with pantographs, where there is a large potential difference between the catenary and the earth, and therefore any electrical contact must be avoided for safety reasons. Furthermore, pantographs operate in an environment with very high electromagnetic interference (EMI).

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
# Record card
174
Description

Plants can compete favorably with traditional expression systems (mammalian cells, yeasts or bacteria) to produce recombinant proteins/peptides of pharmaceutical/industrial/agrifood interest. This technology names “Plant Molecular Farming”. The CNR-IBBA research team offers the study of new strategies for the expression and optimization of recombinant proteins/peptides in plant-based systems (plant tissues, transgenic plants, plant cell culture). Our pipeline is based on the following modules:

Thematic areas
Agrifood
Agrifood / Nutrition & health
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs
Health & Biotech / Regenerative Medicine
# Record card
77
Description

The platform allows the deployment of a sensor network with peripheral nodes spread on the crop fields or on the environment for the monitoring of crop parameters/environmental parameters. The network architecture integrated LoRa peripheral nodes for short-medium range communication and star-center NB-IoT based for long range communication. It includes a web server and MySQL database for data storage and visualization. The network architecture is scalable to adapt to the area to monitor.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
Agrifood / Agriculture
Agrifood / Forestry
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
ICT & Electronics / Internet of Things
ICT & Electronics / Information processing, information system, workflow management
# Record card
260
Description
Thematic areas
Agrifood
Agrifood / Nutrition & health
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Development of new drugs
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
Health & Biotech / Bio-medicals
Chemicals & Physics
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Packaging
Chemicals & Physics / Agro chemicals
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Additive manufacturing processes and materials
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic kits
Chemicals & Physics / Colours & dyes
Chemicals & Physics / Plastics & rubber
Chemicals & Physics / Detergents & cleaning technologies
# Record card
184
Description

We developed an hybrid organic-inorganic composite consisting of a 2D perovskite and a copolymer. At room temperature the composite is highly transparent in the visible region with transmittance > 90%. At higher temperatures, the movement of the polymer chains releases the precursors, allowing the perovskite formation, which results in a colored film. The color changes according to the ‘n’ value of the PVK. PVK with n=1 starts coloring at 70°C, achieving a ∆Tmax = 91.5% at 510 nm.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Nanotechnologies related to electronics and microelectronics
Energy and environmental sustainability
Energy and environmental sustainability / Rational use of energy
Materials
Materials / Composite and hybrid materials
# Record card
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