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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021

Universal processing route for high-performance nanostructured yarns

Yarns are a natural architecture to assemble small building blocks into macroscopic objects and are thus woven in our history, from fabrics of natural fibres in ancient times to fibres of synthetic polymers developed in the 20th century for lightweight applications. Humankind’s new building blocks are nanomaterials, with superlative properties in all areas (optoelectronic, catalytic, transport, structural) relevant for global challenges related to energy use, storage and conversion. UNIYARNS proposes a new universal route for gas-phase assembly of one-dimensional nanomaterials into kilometric yarns, applicable to materials central to energy applications (metal oxides, semiconductors and…

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