ACTIVE PROJECTS

"Harmonization of Advanced Materials Ecosystems serving strategic Innovation Markets to pave the way to a Digital Materials & Product Passport"

Call: HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01
Type of action: HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Duration: 36 months (1 April 2024 – 31 March 2027)
www.ms.hereon.de/digipass

The overarching objective of DigiPass is to enhance the digital maturity of the European communities that develop materials and intermediate products. The project will develop recommendations and clear routes toward digitalized circular business models. The overarching key result of DigiPass is to create a sustainable platform which includes support for Digital Materials & Product Passport and for collaborative innovation-by-design processes in a circular economy served by advanced materials. A business model for operating such a platform completes the overarching objective.

DigiPass is harmonizing and synergizing collected materials data sources and digital infrastructures. This will enable interoperability of data exchange, and standardization of advanced materials knowledge representation at all maturity levels. Accelerating the design, development, and production of advanced, safe, and sustainable chemicals and materials, as they are necessary for innovative products, calls for a collaborative approach involving different stakeholders to support durability, repair and overhaul, reuse, and recyclability of products. DigiPass project impacts all materials development communities over the whole circular value chain.

"Development of efficient third generation PV materials and devices to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises to the green energy production"

"Flagship actions in interdisciplinary scientific fields with a special focus on the productive fabric", Greece 2.0 – National Recovery and Resilience Fund
Duration: 27 months (2 Aug 2023 – 1 Nov 2025)

The European Union's green growth goal supports the application of new technologies in renewable energy sources with use of non-toxic materials with low environmental impact and low greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve this target, 3GPV-4INDUSTRY brings together top and pioneers in the field of 3rd generation photovoltaic cells Academically laboratories and Research Centers aiming to exploit the so far knowledge and to stimulate further research development of emerging thin film based photovoltaic technologies perovskites, photovoltaics based on organic molecules and polymers as well as their combination in the form of overlapping layers (tandem cells) for the utilization of the results from productive tissue and the creation of new products in the area. the action aims to create a networking environment in research and innovation in the space that will allow its exploitation high of stability, of low environmental impact, of low carbon footprint and high tech flexibility of emerging PV cell technologies third generation. 3GPV-4INDUSTRY seeks to establish and strengthen the partnership between internationally recognized laboratories in the new emerging photovoltaic technologies, providing production and sharing of knowledge, enhancing creativity and the cooperation and its results for the benefit of third parties. I will offers a portfolio of technology evaluation criteria for the creation of performance indicators that will define a technological roadmap for the development of a new type of technology of photovoltaic cells capable of producing higher densities power and with a wider range of applications than traditional PV based on silicon. The challenge to overcome is to bridge the knowledge gaps between different researchers groups focusing on the design of new materials and devices, in the development of new provisions that could potentially be also transparent or have indoor applications and finally in their characterization and in stability studies so as to are counted as new type products. The 3GPV-4INDUSTRY partnership will promote research excellence and contribute to development of the career of young researchers and PhD candidates (following the principles of gender balance) through networking, training, guidance and integration in research partnerships, contributing to the creation of new jobs and the creation of new products which will give impetus to a green growth and low carbon economy.

"Centre Of Excellence For Organic, Printed Electronics & Nanotechnologies"

Call: HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS-01-two-stage
Type of action: HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Duration: 72 months (1 May 2023 – 30 April 2029)
www.cope-nano.eu

COPE-Nano is an ambitious project that will leverage on the internationally acknowledged track record and innovation activities of the Nanotechnology Lab LTFN/AUTh to establish a new, autonomous, and self-sustained Centre of Excellence for Organic, Printed Electronics & Nanotechnologies (COPE-Nano).

This CoE will become a leader in EU in basic, applied and industrial research in the rapidly growing fields of Flexible Printed Organic Electronics (FPEs), Bioelectronics and Advanced Nanomaterials for applications in Green Energy, Electronics, ICT, Medicine and Agriculture. COPE-Nano will enhance scientific and technological capacity of Greece, raising the research profile of the Greek and EU scientists, researchers and entrepreneurs based on close and intensive collaboration, networking and know-how exchange with University of Bordeaux (LCPO & ELORPrintTec), and University of Cambridge (Bioelectronics Laboratory), which are institutions worldwide acknowledged for excellence and leading in FPEs & Nanotechnology.

COPE-Nano is strongly supported by the Greek Government (GSRI) to expand the Nanotechnology Ecosystem of LTFN and turns them into purely growth initiatives and business activities, strengthens and highly impacts the regional, national and EU scientific, technological and economic growth to lead in the Green Energy and Digital transformation priorities.

"Automated Manufacturing Production Line for Integrated Printed Organic Photovoltaics (Flex2Energy)"

Call: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-01
Type of action: HORIZON Innovation Actions
Duration: 48 months (1 January 2023 – 31 December 2026)
www.flex2energy.eu

Flex2Energy is a 48-month project with an ambitious goal to manufacture reliable Integrated Photovoltaics (IPVs) by developing an Automated R2R (Roll-to-Roll) Manufacturing Line for Organic PVs (OPVs).

The Manufacturing Line consists of the R2R Printing & Automated Assembly Machines, with robust and adaptive in-line metrologies for quality control and Artificial Intelligence (AI) analysis implementing industry 4.0 concepts.

The IPVs will be produced in custom designs complying to the requirements of use in buildings, greenhouses for energy production & crop harvesting and automotive EV car roofs, to minimize landscape and to facilitate energy positive buildings. The IPV products will be installed in dedicated business cases (BIPVs, Agri-PVs, VIPVs) and will be evaluated in terms of performance, durability and social and industrial acceptance.

"Transparent OPVs in urban environment"

"Investments Plans", NSRF (Enterprise Agreement for the Development Framework) 2021-2027-Regional Program for Central Macedonia
Duration: 26 months (27 May 2022 – 26 May 2025)

The main idea of the project is the development of large-scale Τransparent Organic and Printed Photovoltaics (OPVs) with optical transparency in the visible spectrum which will be integrated into building facades in order to utilize Renewable Energy Sources and save Electricity on buildings, contributing drastically in the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. The project aims to optimize the large-scale production of Τransparent -OPVs (H-OPVs) with Roll-to-Roll printing techniques, using in-line pulse laser etching techniques of the nano-layers and in-line optical metrology instruments. The improvement of the energy efficiency and critical optical properties such as the optical transparency of OPVs will contribute catalytically to their successful integration on facades and windows of building facilities and to the production of an innovative product that will revolutionize the Buildings and Energy market.

"Development of Efficient, Stable and Pb-Free Perovskite Solar Modules"

Acronym: PEROSOLAR
Call: SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund
ID: 20 - NSRF Τ12ΕΡΑ5-00074
Duration: 36 months (1/4/2021-1/4/2024 )
www.solar-era.net/cofund

PEROSOLAR project develops highly efficient, stable and ultimately lead (Pb)-free perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and the upscaling production technology with solution based low cost methods, supported by quality control via imaging characterization.
Novel triarylamine based organic hole transport materials (HTMs) will be synthesized and ZnO based electron transport layer (ETL) will be improved. In addition, ZnO:PEI (polyethyleneimine) blends will be applied as an electron transport material (ETM). By this way, the thin film quality, electron transport capability and the hole blocking ability of the layer will be increased, and will enhance both the perovskite device efficiency and stability of the devices.
While lab-scale experiments are being optimized for Pb-free perovskites, mixed Pb-Sn perovskites will be utilized for developing low cost solution processing methods; inkjet printing and slot-die coating for the cell fabrication. After optimization of the printed lab-scale devices, they will be up-scaled for flexible substrates using roll-to-roll (R2R) systems.