After two years of labor, the BIOMAC mission is able to provide its providers to one of the best European small and medium enterprises, in addition to Analysis Facilities working within the discipline of bio-nanomaterials. BIOMAC is a Horizon 2020 mission fostering an Open Innovation Check Mattress (OITB), a real collaborative ecosystem the place applied sciences and options utilising nano-enabled bio-based supplies (NBMs) are upscaled and ready for market functions.
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The BIOMAC Ecosystem supplies open entry to its services (17 pilot strains) and complementary providers, overlaying the entire worth chain, from biomass fractionation and intermediate chemical compounds to remaining NBMs. AIMPLAS, the Plastics Expertise Centre, is answerable for pilot line quantity 11, a Reactive extrusion (REX) pilot plant for polymerization of PLA and its copolymers and the manufacturing of PLA based mostly nanocomposites.
AIMPLAS pilot line is working in two completely different check instances inside BIOMAC mission. On the one hand, in agricultural functions, to develop PLA based mostly masterbatches with nanoparticles for use in formulations for mulching functions, in addition to PLA copolymers for injection moulding functions. And however, in meals packaging options, to develop PLA nanocomposite formulations for blown movie functions.
After the validation of the BIOMAC pilot strains by means of 5 inside check instances within the fields of automotive, agricultural, meals packaging, building and printed electronics industries, the mission is able to launch an open name for expressions of curiosity for stakeholders. The Open Name will probably be launched on December 15th, 2022, with the goal of choosing 5 extra check instances (textiles, medical-biomedical, tissue engineering, single used objects, and so forth.,) using biobased nanomaterials. An official on-line presentation of the BIOMAC Open Name will probably be held on December 14th, 2022. You possibly can register to the occasion right here.
The ambition of BIOMAC is to spice up and maintain innovation within the discipline of European bio-economy industries, by decreasing the time-to-market of novel nanotechnologies, thus decreasing price and dangers.
Nanostructured bio-based supplies (NBM) are the reply to many challenges confronted by our society. Nevertheless, many technical, economical, and regulatory obstacles nonetheless hinder the total deployment of bio-based polymers and nanomaterials in the marketplace and restrict the implementation of options based mostly on such supplies. The brand new Horizon2020 mission BIOMAC goals at decreasing these obstacles and fostering the European Bioeconomy. It is without doubt one of the largest EC-funded initiatives with 33 companions (academia, establishments, and corporations) from 12 European nations.
The mission has obtained funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Analysis and Innovation Programme below Grant Settlement No. 952941. The companions are: AUTH, EUBIA, BEECO, LTU, BBEU, LIST, RISE, ATB, UEDIN, AIMPLAS, FH-WKI, CNANO, ITENE, AIMEN, POLIMI, DTI, NNT, IDE, AXIA, UBU, ABIS, EXELISIS, EUBP, UNIPD, IRIS, RDC, DIAD, OHM, EVERSIA, ACC, NOVAMONT, ISQ, STAM.
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