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BioCombs4Nanofibers SIGNED

Antiadhesive Bionic Combs for Handling of Nanofibers

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BioCombs4Nanofibers project word cloud

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Project "BioCombs4Nanofibers" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITAT LINZ Organization address address: ALTENBERGER STRASSE 69 city: LINZ postcode: 4040 website: www.jku.at contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Austria [AT]
Total cost	3˙049˙050 €
EC max contribution	3˙049˙050 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.2.1. (FET Open)
Code Call	H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2019-2020-01
Funding Scheme	RIA
Starting year	2019
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2019-10-01 to 2022-09-30

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITAT LINZ UNIVERSITAT LINZ Organization address address: ALTENBERGER STRASSE 69 city: LINZ postcode: 4040 website: www.jku.at contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	AT (LINZ)	coordinator	606˙562.00
2	RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN Organization address address: TEMPLERGRABEN 55 city: AACHEN postcode: 52062 website: www.rwth-aachen.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (AACHEN)	participant	706˙962.00
3	IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS Organization address address: N PLASTIRA STR 100 city: IRAKLEIO postcode: 70013 website: www.forth.gr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	EL (IRAKLEIO)	participant	516˙250.00
4	BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND -PRUEFUNG BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND -PRUEFUNG Organization address address: Unter den Eichen 87 city: BERLIN postcode: 12205 website: www.bam.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (BERLIN)	participant	488˙775.00
5	INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI Organization address address: Atomistilor 409 city: Magurele / Ilfov postcode: 77125 website: www.inflpr.ro contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	RO (Magurele / Ilfov)	participant	420˙000.00
6	ELMARCO SRO ELMARCO SRO Organization address address: SVAROVSKA 621, LIBEREC XI-RUZODOL I city: LIBEREC postcode: 460 01 website: www.elmarco.cz contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	CZ (LIBEREC)	participant	310˙500.00

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Project objective

Challenge: Nanofibers are constantly drawing the attention of material scientists and engineers as their surface-to-used-material-ratio is beneficial for, e.g., medical applications. However, technical nanofiber processing, transportation or even simple things as spooling is inhibited by their attraction to any surface by van der Waals forces, the adhesive forces also enabling geckos to stick to the wall. Recent research aims for scale-up of the controllable production of nanofibers though have not enabled an easier handling and thus their application is still limited. A specific kind of nanofibers are nanofibrous protrusions of adherent cells and microorganisms. The interaction of these fibers with nanostructures is a key feature for their controlled adhesion at natural or artificial surfaces.

Inspiration by nature: One major problem for handling of nanofibers is their stickiness to almost any surface due to van der Waals forces. However, there is a biological example to show how to tackle this problem in the future: cribellate spiders bear a specialized comb, the calamistrum, to handle and process nanofibers, which are assembled to their structural complex capture threads. These 10 – 30 nm thick fibers do not stick to the calamistrum due to a special fingerprint-like nanostructure. This structure causes the nanofibers to not smoothly adapt to the surface of the calamistrum, but rather minimizes contact and thus reduce the adhesive forces between the nanofibers and the calamistrum.

Radically new technological approach: The transfer of these bionic comb structures to a technical surface will enable that future tools for nanofiber handling (covered with such a nanostructure) are antiadhesive towards nanofibers. Similar nanostructures can hinder the adhesion of nanofibrous protrusions of cells or microorganisms, which may enable cell-repellent or antiseptic areas on medical devices and implants.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2020	Anna-Christin Joel, Marco Meyer, Johannes Heitz, Alexander Heiss, Daesung Park, Hana Adamova, Werner Baumgartner Biomimetic Combs as Anti-Adhesive Tools to Manipulate Nanofibers published pages: , ISSN: 2574-0970, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.0c00130	ACS Applied Nano Materials	2020-04-01

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