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BioCombs4Nanofibers SIGNED

Antiadhesive Bionic Combs for Handling of Nanofibers

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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

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 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 AT (LINZ) coordinator 606˙562.00
2    RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN DE (AACHEN) participant 706˙962.00
3    IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS EL (IRAKLEIO) participant 516˙250.00
4    BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND -PRUEFUNG DE (BERLIN) participant 488˙775.00
5    INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI RO (Magurele / Ilfov) participant 420˙000.00
6    ELMARCO SRO 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

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
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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