On-going projects
Towards tomorrow’s polymers and materials in key research areas
SPECIFIC POLYMERS’ research is geared towards performance, sustainability and health. The current research projects in which the company is positioning itself are selected respecting this vision of innovation. Bringing our expertise in polymer and material science and sharing it with multidisciplinary and highly skilled academic and industrial partners in various fields of research, allow us to push our ideas further and closer to real applications.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE
Sept. 2021 – Sept. 2025
E-prot project aims to develop a green platform technology for sustainable and efficient bio-electronic systems exploiting the potential of proteins—the building blocks of natural systems. As a matter of fact, proteins offer structural stability and inherent biocompatibility while displaying (…).
March 2022 – March 2025
To address the problematic of replacement of titanium structural pieces in aeronautics (civil or military), the RECORT project is investigating the chemistry of phthalonitriles for the elaboration of thermally stable composites. While cyanate esters are limited to a temperature range of 200-230°C and polyimide resins (…)
ENERGY
July 2022 – June 2026
The PSIONIC project advances the development of all-solid-state battery technology by employing amorphous cross-linked Polyethylene oxide (PEO) laminated on the thin lithium foil at the anode and high voltage cathode coated with a single-ion conductive polymer. This will allow to replace the flammable and unstable (…)
September 2022 – August 2026
The SOLiD project will create a sustainable and cost-efficient pilot scale manufacturing process for a high energy density, safe and easily recyclable solid-state Li-metal battery. We will use roll-to-roll (R2R) dry extrusion coating for the blend of cathode active material, solid polymer electrolyte, and conducting (…)
ENVIRONMENT
May 2020 – Apr. 2024
Plastic end-of-life management is one of the major challenges in the preservation of our ecosystems. The use of thermoset composites is projected to increase by 40% by 2020. To find an answer to that issue, the BIZENTE project was launched in May 2020. This project supported by the BBI aims to develop innovative (…)
June 2021 – April 2025
The VIBES project aims to develop an innovative and cost-efficient green technology solution to resolve the end-of-life issues of thermoset composites, decreasing the amount of non-biodegradable polymers sent to disposal or discharged to the environment by at least 40%. The project will develop a recycling solution (…)
October 2022 – October 2025
The vast European Cultural Heritage (CH) is a crucial societal and economic resource: it favors inclusivity and job creation, and promotes resilience of our society against the emerging issues of the 21st century, economic crisis and social alienation, made worse by the current Covid-19 pandemic. To keep such advantages (…)
December 2022 – June 2026
The general objective of Bio-Uptake project is to ensure a sustainable uptake (increase the use in a 39%) of bioplastic composites through boosting a twin green and digital transformation in the European manufacturing industry. In particular, Bio-Uptake solution will focus (…)
January 2023 – June 2026
REFORM sets out to address the environmental and sustainability challenges around conventional surface mounted and embedded functional electronics. The project aims to accelerate and guide the development of a new European green functional electronics supply chain. (…)
September 2023 – March 2027
CUBIC presents an innovative solution to improve the sustainability and circularity of complex products made of high-tech advanced multi–material composite structures, by developing novel biomaterials. These novel biomaterials are thought to be manufactured (…)
June 2024 – June 2028
The BioPhenom project will exploit biophenols isolated from industrial biomass sidestreams to replace substances of very high concern (SVHC) commonly used in wood, thermoset, and thermoplastic materials, and will also demonstrate their recyclability, thus enhancing their safe, (…)
April 2024 – September 2027
The BLADE2CIRC project aims to revolutionize the design of wind turbine blades (WTBs) by developing a more sustainable, circular approach. The initiative focuses on replacing traditional materials with high-performance, bio-based composites that not only enhance blade (…)
HEALTH
Sep. 2020 – Aug. 2024
Heart failure (HF) and cerebral stroke associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) are some of the most dreadful and frequently occurring diseases in highly developed countries. HF (>20 million cases worldwide) and AF (>70 million cases worldwide) are both associated with impairment of cardiac mechanical function. In order to assist ventricular (…)
Mar. 2021 – Oct. 2024
Stroke is a leading cause of death worldwide for which clinicians lack therapeutic strategies. Oxidative stress is a well-known contributor to ischemic stroke damage. Besides neuronal loss, oxidative stress is also implicated in vessel damage, inducing cerebral haemorrhage, a major stroke complication. The current anti-oxidant (…)