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Vice-Chair:
Prof. Gianluca Ciardelli
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Aims
Renewable polymeric materials from agricultural origin such as proteins, polyesters, polysaccharides and lignin are currently under-utilised due to the high cost and difficulties in their processing (i.e. further functionalisation). This Action aims at the development of new highly sophisticated technologies to introduce new functionalities to the surface of polymer materials in order to design smart products with applications in medicine, cosmetics, construction or technical textiles.
Two approaches for the production of smart renewable materials will be investigated in this COST Action. First, sophisticated surface modification techniques using enzymes to specifically form cross-linkages or novel functionalities to polymer surfaces will be used. Secondly, the production of recombinant functional/hybrid biopolymers will be a tool to obtain smart renewable materials.
COST Action 868 is structured in 3 working groups
WG1 Functionalisation and coating (Leader: A. Cavaco-Paulo, W. Zimmermann)
WG2 Recombinant and natural functional microbial biopolymers
(Leader: C. Rodriguez-Cabello, M. Zinn)
WG3 Smart polymers (Leader: H. Lenting, T. Tzanov)
