FOCUS
Single Molecule Activation and Computing
| Coordinatore | SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE SUPERIORE DI STUDI AVANZATI DI TRIESTE
Organization address
address: VIA BONOMEA 265 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Italy [IT] |
| Totale costo | 4˙322˙844 € |
| EC contributo | 3˙174˙259 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2009-6 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-01-01 - 2014-03-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE SUPERIORE DI STUDI AVANZATI DI TRIESTE
Organization address
address: VIA BONOMEA 265 contact info |
IT (TRIESTE) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
Consorzio per il Centro di Biomedicina Molecolare S.c.r.l.
Organization address
address: STRADA STATALE 14 KM 163 5 contact info |
IT (TRIESTE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
Organization address
address: VIA MOREGO 30 contact info |
IT (GENOVA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE BIOENGINYERIA DE CATALUNYA
Organization address
address: CARRER BALDIRI REIXAC PLANTA 2A 10-12 contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie
Organization address
address: Kaiserstrasse 12 contact info |
DE (Karlsruhe) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: DUMLUPINAR BULVARI 1 contact info |
TR (ANKARA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
NT-MDT Europe BV
Organization address
address: High Tech Campus 83 contact info |
NL (Eindhoven) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
RAPP OPTOELECTRONIC GMBH
Organization address
address: GEHLENKAMP 9 A contact info |
DE (HAMBURG) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
The present project, FOCUS, will build a novel generation of biologically inspired molecular devices (MDs) based on the developments of new photonic tools. These photonic tools will use Plasmon Polariton and two-photon technology, enabling focused light spots with a diameter around 10 nm. FOCUS will also develop new light sensitive molecules that will be selectively activated by our new photonic tools. These new technological innovations will provide a way to control activation of single light sensitive molecules and will allow the investigation of molecular computation in a biological environment and with an unprecedented resolution. On the basis of these investigations and by using the developed new tools, FOCUS will design and test new MDs for amplification and information processing. FOCUS will: i - provide new photonic devices to control single molecules; ii – lay out the basis for understanding molecular computation in biological systems; iii - provide proofs of concept and suggestions for designing new molecular artificial computing systems; iv- build prototypes of these new MDs. FOCUS has formed a highly interdisciplinary consortium composed of nanotechnologists able to fabricate the new photonic devices - i.e. Enzo Di Fabrizio (IIT), Alpan Bek (METU) and Marco Lazzarino (CBM), chemists able to develop the photoswitches and assemble the MDs – i.e. Pau Gorostiza (IBEC) and Ljiljana Fruk (KIT) and biologists able to understand molecular mechanisms – i.e. Vincent Torre (SISSA) and Fabio Benfenati (IIT). The two companies RappOptoElectronic and NT-MDT Europe BV will transform the new tools and devices into marketable products.