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Bioinspired soft actuation – BioSoftAct
Natural biological structures, e.g. plants and insects, are a fantastic source of inspiration featuring strategies where control of form and motion often relies on interacting elementary units that exhibit a simple actuation mechanism. This ERC Starting grant proposal builds on these bioinspired str
Biological nanopore sequencing of long digitally-encoded polymers – 01Pores
Our society produces data at the impressive rate of few exabytes per day; trend that is continuously escalating creating for the future significant storage and archiving issues. At the current pace, supports based on silicon or magnetic tapes will become soon unsustainable, thus that new alternative
Biological relevance and targeting of i-motif DNA – iCARE
Non-canonical nucleic acids secondary structures have emerged during the last decades as critical factors to modulate DNA and RNA transactions. Among them, i-motifs (i-DNA) represent unusual, four-stranded DNA structures in which cytosines are intercalated via a stack of hemi-protonated C–C base pai
Biomarkers for electromagnetic exposures to future wireless systems – BioREF
Possible health hazards due to utilization of electromagnetic field in telecommunication technologies represent nowadays a major public worry. Due to the saturation of the lower part of the electromagnetic spectrum and the need of very high data rate transmissions, the operating frequencies of emerg
Biomasse pour le futur
Biomass For the Future - BFF in a nutshell The main aim of BFF was to optimize the production of ligno-cellulosic biomass from miscanthus and sorghum as part of the goal to reach the EU objective “zero CO2 emission” in 2050 in a context of climate change and the replacement of fossil carbon
Biomechanical cost quantification for wheelchair accessible cities – CapaCITIES
The manual wheelchair (MWC) is currently the most efficient device to restore locomotion when lower limb functions are, temporarily or definitively, impaired. However, MWC locomotion is a strenuous form of ambulation for the musculoskeletal system as the upper-limbs of the MWC user are permanently u
Biometric fingerprints of trees: log tracing from forest to sawmill and early estimation of wood quality – TreeTrace
The two main objectives of the TreeTrace project were the quality assessment and traceability of logs/bolts based on the analysis of photos of their cross-section taken by sensors such as smartphones or industrial cameras. Traceability is a necessity to combat illegal timber exports, to inform consu
Biomimetic multi-stimuli responsive flexible sensors – DEFORM
Nature uses various activation mechanisms to create shape transformations (actuation) and translate functional information (sensing) of living organisms. Inspired by such natural organisms, we aimed to develop biomimetic sensors and actuators that respond simultaneously to multiple stimuli of differ
Bionics of active filamentous structures – DynaSnap
The climbing plants like vine (but also cucumber, squash, watermelon, peas...) have rod-like supple organs called tendrils which, adopting helical conformation, allow the plant to fix to support. Our preliminary results within IDEX Emergence UPC « Dynavine » show that singular snapping-like events c
Bioprospecting, discovery, mode of action & biosynthesis of marine biotoxins – ICH-NEURO-MET
Phytoplankton lifestyle is characterized by episodic blooms attaining high cell densities and covering large sea surfaces. When dominated by toxin-producing species, harmful algal blooms constitute a potential threat for public health and aquaculture activities resulting in huge annual economic loss
