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Nanocomposite nanofibres for treatment of air and water by an industrial conception of electrospinning
Principal Investigator: Anna Luisa Costa
Personnel involved: Magda Blosi, Davide Gardini, Simona Ortelli
Starting date: 15/01/2013
Duration: 24 months
Total grant: 602 500 €; CNR-ISTEC: 144 200 €
Call/Action: Progetto Bandiera – “La Fabbrica del Futuro” – Piattaforma Manifatturiera Nazionale – FdF SP1-T1.2 “Tecnologie innovative per la realizzazione di componenti dalle caratteristiche funzionali avanzate”
Consortium: 4 Research Institutesi of CNR (ISMAC, ISTEC, IMATI, ITIA)
Coordinator: Claudia Vineis (CNR-ISMAC)
CNR-ISTEC as partner of NanoTwice project, will lead WP2 aimed to prepare electrospinnable formulations based on dispersions of ceramic nanoparticles (NPs), as silver or TiO2 nanoparticles, into keratin solutions. This kind of composite solutions will allow the preparation of multifunctional filter media based on keratin nanofibres with embedded ceramic NPs. Viscosity, conductivity and process parameters (voltage, electrodes distance, flow rate) of electrospinnability range of each formulations will be assessed using a lab-scale mono-jet electrospinning apparatus. WP2 is split in five tasks:
Task 2.1 Preparation and characterization of pure keratin electrospinnable solutions (ISMAC)
Task 2.2 Preparation of electrospinnable keratin/monophase ceramic NPs formulation by dispersing ceramic nanopowders into keratin solutions and related characterisation (ISMAC, ISTEC)
Task 2.3 Preparation of electrospinnable keratin/monophase ceramic NPs formulation by dispersing ceramic nanosols into keratin solutions and related characterisation (ISTEC, ISMAC)
Task 2.4 Preparation of electrospinnable keratin/biphase ceramic NPs formulation by dispersing ceramic nanophases into keratin solutions and related characterization (ISTEC, ISMAC)
Task 2.5 Preliminary characterization of keratin nanofibre membranes doped with ceramic NPs and evaluation of some adsorption performances (ISMAC, ISTEC)
Inorganic phases will be introduced within electrospinnable keratine solution, following the schematized strategies:
