NANO-JETS Next-generation polymer nanofibers: from electrified jets to hybrid optoelectronics, ERC Ideas Starting Grant
NANO-JETS is coordinated by Dario Pisignano (Principal Investigator) at the Department of Mathematics and Physics “Ennio De Giorgi” of the University of Salento and at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory of CNR-Nanosciences Institute in Lecce, Italy. Sauro Succi leads the research group working on NANO-JETS modeling activities at IAC-CNR.
The NANO-JETS project targets the application of polymer nanofibers in new lasers. To this aim, it wants to tackle the still unsolved issues of the electrospinning process in terms of product control by means of the parameters affecting the dynamics of electrified jets. Electrospinning is based on the uniaxial elongation of polymeric jets with sufficient molecular entanglements, in presence of an intense electric field. It is a unique approach to produce nanofibers with high throughput. NANO-JETS aims to elucidating and engineering the electrospinning of solutions incorporating active materials, with a tight synergy among modeling, fast-imaging characterization of electrified jets, and process engineering. Once optimized with molecules or nanomaterials exhibiting optical gain, nanofibers will offer an effective, well-controllable and cheap material for building new laser systems. These architectures will enable enhanced miniaturization and portability, and enormously reduced realization costs.
RESPONSABILE: SAURO SUCCI
PARTECIPANTI: MARCO LAURICELLA, IVAN COLUZZA
LINEA DI RICERCA: Modelli matematici e simulazione numerica della materia fluida, classica e quanto-relativistica (Mathematical modeling and numerical simulations for classical, quantistic and relativistic fluids)
DATA INIZIO: 2013-01-01
DATA FINE: 2018-01-01
LINK: http://www.nanojets.eu/
