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Boosting Lignocellulose Biomass Deconstruction with Designer Cellulosomes for Industrial Applications (CellulosomePlus)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
The major bottleneck for plant biomass processing is fiber saccharification: the conversion of cell wall lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars (en route to production of value-added chemicals like second generation biofuels). Some microbes enhance this step by using natural self-assembling proteinaceous nanocatalists known as cellulosomes. CellulosomePlus targets rational design of optim ...
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Ecohydrological interfaces as critical hotspots for transformations of ecosystem exchange fluxes and biogeochemical cycling (INTERFACES)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
"INTERFACES is a supra-disciplinary training and research network that aims (1) to develop conceptual process understanding of the role of ecohydrological interfaces (i.e. system boundaries) for the transport and transformation of fluxes of heat, energy and water and interlinked biogeochemical cycles (C, N, O) at micro- to landscape-scale; and (2) to create the next generation of supra-disciplinar ...
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Tuning the properties of NanoCarbon with Fluorination (NANOCF)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,
Low-dimensional carbon structures such as graphene and carbon nanotubes have raised tremendous interest in recent years both from fundamental and technological perspectives. However, the tunability of the density of electronic states of graphene and carbon nanotubes remains a limiting factor for their implementation in modern nanotechnology. It has been recently shown that the energy bandgap of gr ...
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Complex dynamics of driven granular solids: Physics and applications (ComGranSol)
Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2017,
Granular materials are collections of macroscopic grains that interact via dissipative and nonlinear forces. These materials display a complex behavior which remains a challenging problem. The better understanding of this behavior is of great practical importance in pharmaceutical and food industries as well as in natural processes such as land sliding and avalanches. In addition, granular media a ...
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Research of new marine inhibitors targeted against desease-relevant proteins kinases (OCEANCHArCoT)
Start date: Jun 24, 2014, End date: Jun 23, 2017,
Project OCEANCHArCoT – OCEAN CHemodiversity Against Cell cycle Targets.Protein Kinases (PKs) are involved in various human pathologies such as cancer, neurodegenerative diseases or can be targeted to alter the life cycle of various parasites such as those responsible neglected parasitic diseases such as leishmaniasis and malaria. There are no physiological events not involving significant changes ...
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Multiple Scattering description of Ballistic Electron Emission Miscroscope for materials used in spin injection (MS-BEEM)
Start date: May 19, 2014, End date: Oct 18, 2016,
Spintronics is now a major challenge at the international level with the prospect of manipulating, storing and transporting the electron spin in semiconductors. This will lead to a whole new family of much faster devices, working at low power, including programmable spin transistors. It has been demonstrated that the efficiency of spin injection is strongly dependent on the structure of the interf ...
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