SANAD

Synthesis of Advanced top Nano-coatings with improved Aerodynamic and De-icing behavior

Coordinatore	Global Nanotechnologies S.A. for the Design, Development, Production and Trading of Nanotechnology Materials    more  Organization address address: Mesogion Avenue 401 city: Aghia Paraskevi postcode: 15343 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Vassilis Cognome: Alexandrakis Email: send email Telefono: 302106000000 Fax: 302104000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Greece [EL]
Totale costo	2˙872˙668 €
EC contributo	2˙872˙668 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IAPP
Funding Scheme	MC-IAPP
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-01-01   -   2016-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	Global Nanotechnologies S.A. for the Design, Development, Production and Trading of Nanotechnology Materials  Organization address address: Mesogion Avenue 401 city: Aghia Paraskevi postcode: 15343 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Vassilis Cognome: Alexandrakis Email: send email Telefono: 302106000000 Fax: 302104000000	EL (Aghia Paraskevi)	coordinator	572˙890.40
2	KINGSTON UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION  Organization address address: RIVER HOUSE HIGH STREET 53-57 city: KINGSTON UPON THAMES postcode: KT1 1LQ contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Jo Cognome: Haigh Email: send email Telefono: +44 208 4172638	UK (KINGSTON UPON THAMES)	participant	772˙471.92
3	BIONANOVATE LIMITED  Organization address address: HOLY ROOD CLOSE UNIT 4 K&B ESTATE CREEKMOOR city: POOLE postcode: BH17 7BP contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Paul Cognome: Booker Email: send email Telefono: +441202 659 523 Fax: +441202 696 333	UK (POOLE)	participant	599˙223.68
4	"NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ""DEMOKRITOS"""  Organization address address: Patriarchou Gregoriou Str. city: AGHIA PARASKEVI postcode: 15310 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Euripides Cognome: Papadopoulos Email: send email Telefono: 302107000000 Fax: 302107000000	EL (AGHIA PARASKEVI)	participant	522˙156.47
5	BRITISH AIRWAYS  Organization address address: Waterside HBA3 city: HARMONDSWORTH postcode: UB7 0GB contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Tim Cognome: Jones Email: send email Telefono: +4420873 87103	UK (HARMONDSWORTH)	participant	405˙926.40

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The efficiency of modern transportation is severely compromised by the prevalence of turbulent drag and icing. The high level of turbulent skin-friction occurring, e.g., on the surface of an aircraft, is responsible for excess fuel consumption and increased carbon emissions. The environmental, political, and economic pressure to improve fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions associated with transportation means that reducing turbulent skin-friction drag is a pressing engineering problem.

The current project will tackle this problem with the development of superhydrophobic nanostructured top coatings, which do not only exhibit improved aerodynamic efficiency but at the same time they prevent icing on the aircraft. The nanostructured coatings will be based on metal oxides or nanostructured carbon (carbon nanotubes or graphene). Both types of nanoparticles can become superhydrophobic by suitable surface treatment while nanostructured carbon can also thermally activate the coating using the plane's on-board electrical system.

The proposed project involves the synthesis and chemical modification of ad-hoc nanoparticles. The latter will be employed for the synthesis of novel composite coatings, based on epoxy or polyacrylic resins, which will be characterized to obtain information on the structure and topology of the coatings. Wind tunnel tests, in combination with fluid dynamics modeling, will be conducted to optimise the application methods and the effect of different substrates, icing fluids, contaminants etc., thus correlating the aerodynamic and de-icing behavior to the morphology of the material. The performance of the developed coatings will be compared with that of existing coatings already produced by a partner of the consortium. The material with the most promising characterization data will be produced in large-scale and provided to the partner “British Airways” for applying it as outer coating in three aircrafts for testing it in flight conditions.'