Microscale Chemically Reactive Electronic Agents

Provider

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

Programme

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Call for proposals

FP7-ICT-2011-8

Main participants

Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze / Fakulta chemicko-inženýrská

Contest type

RP - Co-financing of EC programme

Contract ID

MSMT-42111/2013

Project name in Czech

Microscale Chemically Reactive Electronic Agents

Annotation in Czech

The goal of the project is to create a programmable microscale electronic chemistry forming a bridge between electronic and chemical computing. Microscopic reactive electronic agents will contain circuit elements on autonomous pairwise self-assembling microchips (target =< 100 ?m) in aqueous solution with reversible nanoscale coatings, which we call lablets, to direct reversible association between them to form twin lablets, called gemlabs, and control entry to and chemical reactions in the enclosed transient reaction compartments. The lablet device integrates transistors, supercapacitors, energy transducers, sensors and actuators, involving electronically constructed nanofilms, and will be essentially genetically encoded, translating electronic signals into constructive chemical processing and recording the results of this processing. This will provide an unconventional form of computation that microscopically links reaction processing with computation in autonomous mobile smart reactors. This is a next major step towards the integration of computation and reactive chemical processing in electronically programmable systems: it corresponds to a radical integration of autonomous chemical experimentation and represents a novel form of computation intertwined with construction. The self-assembling smart micro reactors can be programmed for molecular amplification and other chemical processing pathways, that start from complex mixtures, concentrate and purify chemicals, perform reactions in programmed cascades, sense completion, and transport and release products to defined locations. The project defines a continuous achievable path towards this ambitious goal, making use of a novel pairwise local communication strategy to overcome the limitations of current smart dust and autonomous sensor network communication. The 8 groups from 8 countries incl. NZ are all pioneers in the multidisciplinary areas required to achieve the project goals, with a common grounding in IT.

R&D category

AP - Applied research

CEP classification - main branch

CI - Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering

CEP - secondary branch

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CEP - another secondary branch

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OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)

20401 - Chemical engineering (plants, products)<br>20402 - Chemical process engineering

Provider evaluation

U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)

Project results evaluation

Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.

Realization period - beginning

Jan 1, 2013

Realization period - end

Aug 31, 2015

Project status

U - Finished project

Latest support payment

Mar 20, 2014

Confidentiality

C - Předmět řešení projektu podléhá obchodnímu tajemství (§ 504 Občanského zákoníku), ale název projektu, cíle projektu a u ukončeného nebo zastaveného projektu zhodnocení výsledku řešení projektu (údaje P03, P04, P15, P19, P29, PN8) dodané do CEP, jsou upraveny tak, aby byly zveřejnitelné.

Data delivery code

CEP16-MSM-7E-U/01:1

Data delivery date

Oct 6, 2017

Total approved costs

2,213 thou. CZK

Public financial support

2,213 thou. CZK

Other public sources

0 thou. CZK

Non public and foreign sources

0 thou. CZK