Diamond for Technological Progress
07/01/2015Horizon 2020: FET Open project on photocatalysis with diamond under the coordination of Wuerzburg University has been accepted
So far only nature knows how to do it: the production of organic matter starting with light and CO2 in water. But exactly this direct conversion of carbon dioxide into fuels and fine chemicals using sunlight is the goal of the project DIACAT, which has been just accepted by the European Commission. The international consortium under the coordination of Prof. Anke Krueger (Institute of Organic Chemistry of Wuerzburg University) will develop novel technologies based on tailor-made diamond materials. The EU is financing the project with around 3.9 million Euro. In the FET Open Call for “Novel ideas for radically new technologies” 670 projects had been submitted of which 24 were accepted for funding. Among those only the project DIACAT is coordinated by a German institution, the JMU.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Anke Krueger, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Wuerzburg
T +49 931 31-85334, anke.krueger@uni-wuerzburg.de
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