No.1 /March 2016

Training in Bio-Inspired Design of Smart Adhesive Materials

NEWSLETTER

Kick-off meeting at the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. (IPF)

back : Dr. Vlasis Mavrantzas (UPATRAS), Dr. Paul Birnbrich (BASF SE), Dr. Phil L. Taylor (ICI), Prof. Dr. Anton A. Darhuber (TU/e), Stéphane Auguste (URGO), Dr. Walter Federle (CAM), Prof. Dr. Costantino Creton (CNRS-ESPCI) in front : Dr. Matthias Gerst (BASF SE), Dr. Marleen Kamperman (WU), Dr. Alla Synytska (IPF), Sandra Martinka (IPF), Prof. Dr. Aranzazu del Campo (INM)

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BioSmartTrainee – “Training in Bio-Inspired Design of Smart Adhesive Materials”

started at 01 October 2015 until 30 September 2019 with 7 academic and 3 industrial

partners from 5 different EU-countries. It is funded by the Marie Sk³odowska-Curie

Actions Programm Horizon 2020 with 2.82 Mio EUR. The project will provide a training

to 11 young researchers by joining different PhD projects.

The interdisciplinary research field of BioSmartTrainee is about controlling adhesion

under wet conditions – a process that is already mastered by a lot of biological systems,

like the binding of the frog‘s skin on different wet surfaces, but still remains challenging

in adhesive technology.

The provided training will combine three complementary scientific fields:

POLYMER SCIENCE, ADHESION and (FLUID)-Biomechanics.

In different PhD projects the network team aims to extract principles from biological

systems and mimic them to design synthetic materials; to experimentally test their

adhesion properties in wet conditions and to clarify the adhesion mechanisms based on

natural examples and theoretical modelling.

The designed materials will be useful for reversible attachment to a variety of surfaces

in wet environments and, therefore, be highly relevant for products from European

industry such as technological adhesives, coatings, tissue adhesives, wound dressings or

transdermal delivery devices.

From 15th to 16th October 2015 the Kick-off meeting took place at the IPF Dresden. The

network partners presented their institution, the work packages and ESR projects were

discussed in detail and project committees were established.

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BioSmartTrainee-Flyer is available

The new flyer informs about the main objectives of the project and gives facts about partners and research fields of BioSmartTrainee.

Further information are available at:

www.biosmarttrainee.eu

NEWS

EVENTS- PROJECT MEETING -

- TRAINING COURSES -

16 March 2016Teleconference

14 - 16 September 2016Training School 1at University of Patras (UPATRAS), Greece

NEWSLETTER CONTACTSandra Martinkaphone: +49 351/4658-599fax: +49 351/4658-98599mail: martinka@ipfdd.de

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INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD (IAB)

We are welcome the IAB members:

Prof. Phillip B Messersmith (University of California, USA)Prof. Animangsu Ghatak(IIT Kanpur, India)Prof. Russell J. Stewart(University of Utah, USA)Prof. Alfred Crosby(University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

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COORDINATION GROUPS (CG)Following CGs were established:

1) Training CG:coordinated by WUmembers: TU/e und ICI2) S&T CG:coordinated by INMmembers: IPF, BASF3) Industrial Liaison CGcoordinated by BASFmembers: ICI, URGO4) Impact CGcoordinated by INMmembers: UPATRAS, CAM5) ESR committee (3 partner fellows)has to be established after recruit-ment of the fellows

Teleconference at 16th March 2016.

AGENDAMain topics:

Status of the Recruitment of ESR fellowsTraining School 1Status of Promotional Materials

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PARTNER CHANGE

The following partners have been changed:

MPIP INMProf. Del Campo changed her position from beneficiary MPIP to INM on 1st September 2015.

AKZONOBEL ICIICI is the premises of fellow‘s working.

NEXT MEETING

FELLOW WELCOME

We would like to welcome our new fellows:

ESR 3: MARCO DOMPÉ

Marco is the fellow ESR 3: Bioinspired underwater adhesives using complex coacervation. The ESR 3 will be hosted at Wageningen University (NL) and super-vised by Marleen Kamperman.

ESR 9: MACIEJ CHUDAK

Maciej is the fellow for the ESR 9: The physics of adhesion to wet and icy surfaces. The ESR 9 will be hosted at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) and supervised by Anton Darhuber.

TRAINING

TRAINING SCHOOL 1at UPATRAS

The first training school will focus on the basic aspects of synthesis of bio-inspired smart polymers, adhesion phenomena and mechanisms, modelling up to the app-lications of that field.

Date: 14 – 16 September 2016

Location: University of Patras, UPATRAS, Greece

Organizers: Prof. Aránzazu del Campo (INM)Prof. Vlasis Mavrantzas (UPATRAS)

NETWORK SUPERVISORY BOARD (NSB)

With the Kick-off meeting the NSB did official start its working. With 11 members it is the „core board“ and decision making body for the BioSmart Trainee project.

10 members were present during the Kick-off meeting:

A. Synytska (IPF)A. del Campo (INM),

also on behalf of R. Hensel (INM)M. Kamperman (WU)C. Creton (CNRS/ESPCI)P. Birnbrich (BASF SE)W. Federle (CAM)A. A. Darhuber (TU/e)V. Mavrantzas (UPATRAS)Ph. Taylor (ICI)St. Auguste (URGO)

The ESR fellow member will be elected in September 2016.

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COMMITTEES

NETWORK EXECUTIVEBOARD (EB)

With the Kick-off meeting the EB did official start its working. It is the board to prepare and postprocessing the de-cisions of NSB. The EB consists of 8 members.

The following members were present during the Kick-off meeting:?A. Synytska (IPF)?A. del Campo (INM) also on behalf of R. Hensel (INM)?M. Kamperman (WU)?C. Creton (CNRS/ESPCI)?V. Mavrantzas (UPATRAS)?St. Auguste (URGO)

The ESR fellow member will be elected in September 2016.