Annual Report 2006 - Plataforma Solar de AlmerÃa
Annual Report 2006 - Plataforma Solar de AlmerÃa
Annual Report 2006 - Plataforma Solar de AlmerÃa
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ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF SOLAR ENERGY<br />
tive adsorption of photons of certain solar spectrum wavelengths) to improve<br />
whiteness, brightness, color and tone, modify tissues to enable self-cleaning<br />
exclusively by exposure to solar radiation, take advantage of the antenna effect<br />
for <strong>de</strong>contamination and disinfection of water and, above all, of soils, and<br />
materials that favor photodynamic biomineralization to improve regeneration<br />
of bones and even bone implants.<br />
Figure 4.4<br />
Conceptual illustration of light capture and formation<br />
of singlet oxygen in photozyme nanomicels (R is a unit<br />
of anthracene acting as a reactive center)<br />
Purposes: The PhotoNanoTEch project is inten<strong>de</strong>d to <strong>de</strong>velop new<br />
“photozymes”, amphiphilic copolymers containing comonomers with chromophorous<br />
groups) using zwitterionic comonomers, and <strong>de</strong>monstrate their potential<br />
for innovation in the following applications: (i) solar photocatalytic<br />
treatment and disinfection of polluted water; (ii) treatment of whiteners in the<br />
textile industry; (iii) <strong>de</strong>velopment of biomineralization processes and (iv) <strong>de</strong>velopment<br />
of new biomedical coating materials with no inflammatory response.<br />
The last three photozyme applications are completely innovative and<br />
have not been explored up to now.<br />
Objectives achieved in <strong>2006</strong>: The work in the project has not yet begun since<br />
it was evaluated and approved by the European Commission 6 th Framework<br />
Program in <strong>2006</strong> un<strong>de</strong>r its thematic priority “Nanotechnologies and<br />
Nanosciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials, and new production<br />
processes and <strong>de</strong>vices”.<br />
4.2.4 INNOWATECH<br />
Innovative and integrated technologies for the treatment<br />
of industrial wastewater. http://www.innowatech.org<br />
Participants: CNR - Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque (I), Aachen Univ. Technol.<br />
(D), Tech. Univ. Delft (NL), Swedish Env. Res. Inst. Ltd (S),<br />
Cranfield Univ. (UK), Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech. (CH), CIEMAT-PSA<br />
(E), Norw. Inst. Wat. Res. (N), SolSep BV (NL), Bayer Material-<br />
Science AG (D), ITT We<strong>de</strong>co (D), Austep S.r.l. (I), Albaida S.A.<br />
(ES), AnoxKaldnes (S), Water Innovate Ltd (UK), DHV (NL),<br />
Adv. Wastewater Manag. Centre (Aus).<br />
Contact: Dr. W. Gernjak, wolfgang.gernjak@psa.es<br />
Dr. Antonio López, antonio.lopez@ba.irsa.cnr.it<br />
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