Nanotechnologies

Phase 3 (2018-2024)

Nanoscience and nanotechnology have been driving some of the most impactful changes in areas as health, the environment, energy, transportation, and information technology.

With the Program’s seal, this area proposes a new research and innovation agenda, involving complex materials engineering and science focused on an integrated approach to nanoscience over a broad spectrum of applications. Further research will focus on the discovery and development of innovative nanomaterials, with a range of unique properties suitable for applications across space, healthcare, telecommunications, energy, and transportation sectors, just to list a few. The area expects to bring on board relevant stakeholders in Portugal such as the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) or the NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) for Dynamics and Control of Materials (CDCM) at UT Austin.

Area Directors

Projects

Phase III (Closed) Soft4Sense – Smart Surfaces for Reliable Tooling Integration

Phase III (Closed) SENTINEL – Novel injectable biosensor for continuous remote monitoring of cancer patients at high-risk of relapse

Phase III (Closed) NanoStim: Nanomaterials for wearable-based integrated biostimulation

Phasee III (Closed) NanoCatRed – Novel metallic NANOparticles on NANOstructured supports for oxyanion CATalytic REDuction in water

Phase III (Closed) MCTool21 – Manufacturing of cutting tools for the 21st century: from nano-scale material design to numerical process simulation

Phase III (Closed) GEMIS – Graphene-enhanced Electro-Magnetic interference Shielding

Phase III (Closed) ExtreMed – Extreme Ultrashort Pulses for Advanced Medical Applications and Diagnostics

(Closed) UT-BORN-PT – Unconventional Thermoelectrics Based on Self-Organized Binary Nanocrystal Superlatices

(Closed) NANOTHER – TAMs-targeted and externally controlled nanotheranostics of triple-negative-breast-cancer

(Closed) MEPHEES – Nanostructured transition Metal Phosphides for Electrochemical Energy Storage

(Closed) MECHANO – From the mechanobiology of the glial to the management of multiple sclerosis

(Closed) Electrowave – ELECTROWetting heat pipes for cooling Applications in Electric Vehicles

(Closed) DREAM – Drug delivery nanosystem for HPV infection therapy Nanotechnologies

(Closed) CONTROLLUB – Self lubrificant coatings for high temperature applications with controlled released of the lubricious agent

(Closed) BlueEnergy – Large scale blue energy harvesting using hybrid triboelectric/photovoltaic systems for the long term deployment of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

(Closed) 2DMS – Two dimensional magnetic semiconductors

(Closed) PIEZOFLEX – High-performance piezoelectric flexible materials enabled by hierarchically porous graphite for application as mechanical energy harvesters and sensors

(Closed) COFforH2 – Covalent organic frameworks as artificial metalloenzymes for hydrogen activation

(Closed) TARGET – TeraHertz Sources using Graphene Field-effect transistor

(Closed) ImmuneNanoVac – Nanomaterials to design new vaccine adjuvants

(Print3d4Capture) 3D-printed Nitrogen-rich Nanoporous Carbons for CO2 capture by Electric Swing Adsorption

(NanoPower) Efficient self-powered nanomaterial systems to map muscular micro-activity by harvesting and storing biomechanical energy

(NanogeT) Redox-responsive self-immolative nanogels for cellular immunotherapies

(Closed) NanoCatRed – Novel metallic NANOparticles on NANOstructured supports for oxyanion CATalytic REDuction in water

(Closed) Soft4Sense – Smart Surfaces for Reliable Tooling Integration

(Closed) MCTool21 – Manufacturing of cutting tools for the 21st century: from nano-scale material design to numerical process simulation

(Closed) ExtreMed – Extreme Ultrashort Pulses for Advanced Medical Applications and Diagnostics

(Closed) GEMIS – Graphene-enhanced Electro-Magnetic interference Shielding

(Closed) NanoStim: Nanomaterials for wearable-based integrated biostimulation

(Closed) (MagTubeCancer) Magnetic Nanoparticles For Cancer Therapy: Collection And Elimination of Circulating Tumor Cells

(Closed) (LubEnergy) Engineering Lubricious Interfaces for Enhancing Energy Efficiency

(Closed) (QMETA) Realising Quantum METAmaterials with Quantum Dot Arrays

(Closed) SENTINEL – Novel injectable biosensor for continuous remote monitoring of cancer patients at high-risk of relapse

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Highlights

December 4, 2024

UT Austin Portugal’s project portfolio is about to grow: a new call for exploratory projects is now open

The 2024 Call for Exploratory Projects has an overall available budget of € 400,000and includes three of the Program’s core areas: Advanced Computing, Space-Earth Interactions, and Nanotechnologies. Proposals in Clean…

March 21, 2024

Unlocking International Opportunities: UT Austin Portugal is offering ten internships through competitive call

The UT Austin Portugal Program is launching a call to fund short-term research visits at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) in the areas of Advanced Computing, Nanosciences…

December 21, 2023

Embracing the Longhorns Spirit

From October to December, ten researchers embarked on a journey at the University of Texas at Austin and the MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston. They performed research on several…

December 11, 2023

Soft4Sense and MCtool21 organized a final seminar to present their scientific advances in improving the durability and efficacy of industry tools

The exponential technological evolution of the last decades has enabled industries to evolve and find ways to take advantage of it and optimize their product manufacturing chains and tools. With…