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Swarm intelligence for navigating disordered flows using chemical signals – SWARMER
When a weakly diffusive chemical substance is transported through a turbulent or a porous medium, the resulting concentration field is characterised by a structure made of filaments stretched and folded by the flow. Many organisms have to navigate this complex landscape to find their way to the emit
Sympathetic cooling with Be ions for precision measurements – BESCOOL
In the last two decades, spectacular advances have been made in the quantum state control of ions confined in radiofrequency traps. Methods have been developed for laser cooling of the external motion down to the vibrational ground-state. Sympathetic cooling extended these techniques to many atomic
Synthesis and physical properties of new SUPERconducting NICKEL oxides – SUPERNICKEL
Superconductivity is a fascinating quantum state of condensed matter. Its study and understanding have always aroused immense interest in fundamental physics, but also in materials science and its exploitation leads to numerous technological applications: lossless current transport, energy storage,
Synthetic metabolic and genetic networks for medical diagnostics – SynBioDiag
Organisms have evolved to sense large panels of metabolites and human have used these sensing abilities throughout history. Recently, synthetic biology has expanded and rationalized biosensing by engineering whole-cell biosensors (WCBs) with sophisticated signal processing capabilities. The main adv
Systematic Machine Learning Approach for Revolutionary Traffic Optimization in Urban Transportation Engineering – SMART-ROUTE
Rapid growth in the demand for urban transportation networks has underlined the urgent need for sophisticated management of multimodal transportation networks due to the significant costs associated with traffic congestion and CO2 emissions. Addressing these challenges requires a dual focus: allevia
TRANSport and interactions of microPLASTics in urban combined sewer overflows and development of mitigation solutions – TRANSPLAST
With proven effects on the environment and health, synthetic polymer microparticles usually called microplastics (MPs) can accumulate in the food chain, release toxic substances or serve as vectors for other contaminants and pathogens. Urban areas are major sources and pathways for the transfer of M
TRain ENergy Efficiency via Rankine-cycle exhaust Gas heat recoverY – TRENERGY
Up to now, Rankine systems have been mainly used for stationary equipment (power plants, heat recovery from boilers and furnaces, ...), although applications to transport have been studied (for trains, trucks, and more recently, cars) or even implemented, in the case for large ships. For lighter tr
Tailoring energy transfer and transport mechanisms in metal oxide - metal nanoparticles heterostructures for enhanced light harvesting – TETROX
Metal oxides (MO) decorated with metal nanoparticles (NPs) have demonstrated an enormous applicative potential in domains such as chemical sensing, photovoltaics, visible light photodegradation, photocatalytic materials, photoelectrochemical water splitting or photodetectors. It is believed that the
Taking into account changing alluvial channels in flood risk assessment – GESTRANS
River management is becoming more and more complex because it needs to integrate short-term flood risk assessment and long-term environmental objectives. These objectives may sometimes conflict, for instance when a sediment deposit, which is fully part of the river equilibrium (or disequilibrium), l
TeraHertz time domain spectrometer for the determination of optical properties of suspended micro and nanoparticles in the air in a controlled environment – STEPSON
The present project proposes to develop and operate a new and innovative TeraHertz (THz) broadband measurement bench in time domain (Time-Domain Spectroscopy, TDS), between 200 GHz and 5 THz, of CRI of suspended micro-nanoparticles in the air in a controlled environment. The use of an algorithm deve
