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Innovative polymer-based composite systems for high-efficient energy scavenging and storage

  • Start: 01/03/2020
  • End: 01/08/2023

InComEss seeks at developing efficient smart materials with energy harvesting and storage capabilities combining advanced polymer based-composite materials into a novel single/multi-source concept to harvest electrical energy from mechanical energy and/or waste heat ambient sources. Three Energy Harvesting Systems (EHSs) configurations will be realized through the combination of high performance piezoelectric (PE), thermoelectric (TE) and Thermo-Piezoelectric (TPE) generators and monolithic supercapacitors (SCs) to power selected wireless sensors nodes to be implemented in different IoT scenarios for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) in buildings and aircrafts (using a new miniature wireless Fiber Optics Sensing (FOS) interrogator) and accurate location and monitoring of vehicles through GPS and MEMS sensing.
AIMEN leads the following activities:
• Definition/Selection of materials for the Piezo- and Thermo-electrics and Supercapacitors.
• Development of lead-free Piezoelectric (PE) composite fibres by Wet-spinning & characterization of wet- and melt-spun lead-free PE composite fibres.
• Fabrication of melt-mixed n- and p-type Thermoelectric (TE) composite masterbatches.
• Lab-scale and Demo Prototypes fabrication of Electric Generators: PEG, TEG & hybrid TPEG for building, automotive and aeronautic use-case scenarios, respectively.
• Wireless GPS/MEMS sensor nodes development for its implementation in the automotive use-case and development of Wireless FOS sensor node for its implementation in the building and aeronautic use-case.
• Project Coordination.

  • Sectors: Aeronautical, Automotive, Construction
  • Financing programme: Horizon 2020
  • R&D&i: Integrated monitoring and control systems, Multimaterial systems
  • Partners: Brunel University London, Core Innovation and Technology OE, Marelli Europe Spa, Fundación CIRCE, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems - ICCS, Tampere University, CeNTI - Centro de Nanotecnologia e Materiais Técnicos, Funcionais e Inteligentes, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden - IPF, Nanocyl SA, Smart Material GmbH, Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas, Skeleton Technologies GmbH, University of Padova, Technobis Fibre Technologies, Focchi S.p.A., Societe Nationale De Construction Aerospatiale Sonaca SA, UNE - Asociación Española de Normalización
  • Acronym: InComEss
  • Ambit: International
  • Web: https://www.incomess-project.com/
 
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