- Start: 01/02/2012
- End: 31/01/2016
The FUNCTIONAL project is aimed to achieve the strengthening cooperation between the EU with third countries such as Brazil and Mexico for transfering knowledge in the development of functional and high-performance surfaces.
FUNCTIONAL project fits well with the objective of IRSES programme. Marie Curie’s International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) helps research organisations to set up or strengthen long-term cooperation with others, through a coordinated exchange programme for their staff.
Key points for FUNCTIONAL are:
- Strengthening collaboration between European R&D centres and third countries
- Development of new research capacities
- Maintaining sustainable research cooperation between EU countries and Brazil and Mexico during the project and beyond it.
The FUNCTIONAL exchange programme is technically focused on:
- Development of nanostructured composites trough high energy milling and cryomilling at the UFPE. - Developing high-performance wear and corrosion resistant coatings using new advanced techniques such as laser and friction stir based techniques at AIMEN and HZG in order to create this functional surface.
- Characterization of the developed coatings trough wear and corrosion techniques at COMIMSA. The main role of AIMEN into the project is doing research activities (secondments) at the UFPE (Brazil) and COMIMSA (Mexico) related to mechanical alloying and consolidation of the powders and evaluating the performance of the coatings against abrasion, wear and corrosion to reinforce its knowledge related with these techniques. On the other hand, AIMEN transfers its knowledge to seconded researchers from the same research organims in advanced technologies to obtain high performance surfaces such as laser deposition and friction stir processing.
**This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 295254.
- Sectors: Energy, Transport
- Financing programme: 7TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FUNDED EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
- R&D&i: Coating technology, Laser assisted processing, Thermoplastic composites
- Partners: THE HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, COMIMSA
- Acronym: FUNCTIONAL
- Ambit: International
- Web: http://functionalproject.aimen.es
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