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Centre for Mechanical Enginnering, Materials and Processes

Centro de Engenharia Mecânica, Materiais e Processos (CEMMPRE)

Reference
UIDB/00285/2020
Project Start Date
2020-01-01
Project End Date
2024-12-31
Principal Investigator
Funding Program
Concurso de avaliação no âmbito do Programa Plurianual de Financiamento de Unidades de I&D (2017/2018) - Financiamento Base

Abstract

10.2 Summary in English for general dissemination purposes CEMMPRE is an interdisciplinary R&D Unit with 74 integrated researchers with PhD, 63 without PhD and 25 collaborators, working on fundamental and applied research in Mechanical and Materials Engineering and other related areas such as Industrial Innovation, Robotization and Production Transformation. Its research is aligned with RIS3 of the Centre Region of Portugal, Horizon 2020 and UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. CEMMPRE is organized into two research groups: Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing, and Materialsand Processes, which conduct research in the following key areas: Intelligent Manufacturing, Design& Testing, Surface and Interface Engineering, Nanomaterials and Nanotechology, Bioengineering, and Advanced Sensor Systems. The main objectives for the next 5 years are: -Pursue research with regional, national and international impact and participate in international infrastructures and networks; -Increase the number of undergraduate and graduate research grant opportunities; -Contribute to the employment of highly-qualified scientists in Portugal; -Gradually increase the scientific indicatorsup to 2022 with dissemination based on the concepts of Open Science, Open Innovation, and Openness to the World; -Build and maintain shared research facilities and equipment. Plan of Activities: Research activity will take societal and social policy issues into account and will contribute to the goals of creation and development of new sustainable technologies and advanced materials, supported by the following strengths: funding from public and private institutions/companies, multidisciplinarity and know-how of the team, strong collaboration with international institutions / networks of excellence and existence of modern and well-equipped laboratories. CEMMPRE will focus special attention on the need to improve impact indicators such as increasing the number of publications and patents, through the training of new PhD researchers with an industrial focus, and better direct implementation of the research results in industrial environments in 6 areas: intelligent manufacturing; design and testing; surface and Interface engineering; bioengineering; nanomaterials and nanotechology; advanced sensor systems. The different areas were decided on considering the multidisciplinary nature of the research team as well as the social impact of the expected outputs. CEMMPRE will strongly promote the establishment of important collaborations between the researchers internally and externally, to explore the interfaces between the different areas of knowledge. New cutting-edge technologies will be developed in relation to some of the most important societal challenges that have real impact benefitting citizens, namely: health, sustainable growth, circular economy and green intelligent manufacturing technologies. This proposal will be of paramount importance for the technical training of the next generation of highly-educated and qualified people. 10.3 Summary in English for evaluation CEMMPRE is an interdisciplinary R&D Unit with 74 integrated researchers with PhD, 63 without PhD and 25 collaborators, working on fundamental and applied research in Mechanical and Materials Engineering and other related areas such as Industrial Innovation, Robotization and Production Transformation. Its research is aligned with RIS3 of the Centre Region of Portugal, Horizon 2020 and UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (goals 9.1, 9.4 and 9.5). CEMMPRE is organized into two research groups: Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing, and Materials and Processes, conducting research in the following major scientific areas: Intelligent Manufacturing, Design& Testing, Surface and Interface Engineering, Nanomaterials and Nanotechology, Bioengineering, and Advanced Sensor Systems. The main objectives for the next 5 years are: -Pursue research with regional, national and international impact and participate in international infrastructures / networks; -Increase the number of undergraduate and graduate research grants; -Contribute to the employment of highly-qualified scientists in Portugal; -Gradually increase the scientific indicators up to 2022, dissemination based on the concepts of Open Science, Open Innovation, and Openness to the World; -Build and maintain shared research facilities and equipment. Plan of Activities Research activity will take societal and social policy issues into account and contribute to the goals of creation and development of new sustainable technologies and advanced materials, supported by the following strengths: ongoing funding from public and private institutions/companies, multidisciplinarity and know-how of the team, strong collaboration with international institutions / networks of excellence and existence of modern and well equipped laboratories. CEMMPRE will focus special attention on the need to improve impact indicators such the number of publications and patents, through the training of new PhD researchers with an industrial focus, and better direct implementation of the research results in industrial environments in the following 6 areas/ 30 topics: 1.Intelligent Manufacturing -Integrated development of advanced robotics with decision-making methodologies to maximize productivity; -Development of decision support models, based on sustainability objectives, for management of supply chains in the food retail sector; -Development, modelling and numerical simulation of new technologies for multi-material joining. Continue development of DD3IMP software, extending its applications to hot forming and additive processes; -Development of multimaterials and new manufacturing processes (additive manufacturing (SLM and DCSM)) for fabrication of components for health and mechanical industry (i.e. parts of moulds and SOFC). Improvement of the digital control of equipment for intelligent manufacturing; -Devices for on-site functional applications – local temperature sensors; local loading sensors; local heating devices. 2.Design& Testing -Mechanical and tribological behaviour of advanced materials, especially additive manufactured materials, advanced composites and biomaterials; -Reliability of structural components and joints: laser and friction stir welds; -Prevention of materials’ failure in service, in medical devices, automotive and aviation industries and sustainable structures; -New strategies to assist thin-film electronics for 3D hydrographic printing; -Tailor-made 2D surfaces with specific double scale topography, as templates for 3D printing of invasive medical materials. 3.Surface and Interface Engineering -Tribological coatings for room and high temperature applications (TMDs, Ag, V-containing nanocomposite coatings; C-based low friction coatings); -Environmentally friendly coatings for replacing REACH-banned materials – Cr(VI), Ni, Cd. Coatings for allowing reuse and recycling; -Coatings for interacting with new liquid lubricants; -Coatings for energy harvesting – thermoelectric; -Bio-active modified surfaces and materials with antimicrobial activity. 4.Bioengineering -New protocols for reversible deactivation radical polymerization to enable control over the polymerization, mimicking the processes in nature; -Development of new families of biobased polymers using “green” processes to replace traditional fossil-based polymers; -Innovative biodegradable polymers for additive manufacturing, and strategies to use bacterially-produced biopolymers as reinforcement in 3D printing composites, aiming at 4D printing; -New functional graded hybrid coatings for application in the biomedical field; -Finding enzymes and other biological molecules with applicability for control of pests and in microbial production of biological polymers. 5.Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology -Smart nanocomposite coatings for biomedical applications – local drug delivery; -New nanomaterial and nanostructured modified surfaces for applications in health, food and environment (carbon nanomaterials, mixed metal films, metal/semiconductor nanoparticles, conducting/redox polymers); -Electrode modifiers with altered nanoscale morphology prepared in novel deep eutectic solvents; -New organic and biological adsorption corrosion inhibitors; -Oxidation mechanisms, surface adsorption and quantification of medicaments, antioxidants and proteins; 6.Advanced Sensor Systems -Microtechnologies for environmental monitoring, bioremediation and metal recovery; microorganisms isolated from stressed environments, genetically modified to construct biosensors, bioaccumulators and bioleaching systems; -Modified electrode platforms as enzyme and enzyme inhibition biosensors for toxic species; -Gas sensor coatings for security purposes; -Sensing of fibrilization of amyloid beta peptide fragment precursors of amyloid beta fibrils, important in Alzheimer's disease and neurodegeneration; -Nanoscale film DNA electrochemical biosensor for detection of DNA oxidative damage by health hazardous compounds.

Institutions

Main Institutions

  • Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Engenharia Mecânica Materiais e Processos (UC CEMMPRE)
  • Universidade de Coimbra (UC)

Funding 1.387.750,00 €

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - Portugal

1.387.750,00 €