MATERIALS BASED ON BORON CLUSTERS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Barcelona Province (NUTS ES511); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 264,990; EU co-financing EUR 132,495 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2016-12-30 to 2020-12-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): THIS PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP NEW ENVIRONMENTALLY TOLERANT TECHNOLOGIES BASED ON BORON CLUSTERS. WE ARE CONVINCED THAT BORON CLUSTERS HAVE UNIQUE PROPERTIES THAT WILL MAKE THE MOLECULAR MATERIALS PREPARED IN THIS PROJECT AN ADVANCE FOR RENEWABLE, CLEAN AND EFFICIENT ENERGY. THE BASIC OBJECTIVES SOUGHT ARE NINE: O1) THE DEVELOPMENT OF REDOX AGENTS (ELECTRONIC TRANSFER AGENTS (ET) OF EXTERNAL AND REVERSIBLE SPHERE) WITH VERY POSITIVE EO VALUES DERIVED FROM METALOCARBORANS. O2) THE DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS FOR ELECTROLITIC OXYGEN PRODUCTION, BASED ON THE USE OF HIGHLY HALOGENATED ACTIVE REDOX METALACARBORANOS ELECTROLYTES [CO(C2B9XXH11-X)2]-, (X=0-6) (X=I OR CL) AND [FE(C2B9XXH11-X)2]-, (X=0-3) (X= I OR CL). O3) THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONDUCTIVE ORGANIC POLYMERS (COPS) OF PPY, PEDOT AND PPV DOPED WITH METALOCARBORANS, EITHER FREE OR UNITED TO THE POLYMER CHAIN, WITH THE AIM OF PRODUCING HIGHLY CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS AND OPTICALLY ACTIVE MATERIALS PARTICULARLY STABLE TO DEGRADATION BY RADICAL SPECIES. O4) PRODUCE EASILY PROCESSABLE ALTERNATIVES TO FULLERENE C60 FOR BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS. O5) PRODUCE SUBSTITUTES FOR PAIR I(−)/I3(−) SO THAT BOTH PARTNERS ARE ANIONIC AS OCCURS IN I(−)/I3(−). O6) PRODUCE MAGNETIC NANOPARTICULATES (MNPS) AND QUANTUM DOTS DECORATED WITH CARBORANILFOSFINIC ACID AND/OR METALLOCARBORANS, AND STUDY THEIR IMPORTANCE IN ET AND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE. O7) PRODUCE A SECOND GENERATION OF POROUS COORDINATION POLYMERS (PCP)/MOLECULAR ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS (MOF) BASED ON BORON CLUSTERS, STUDY THEIR GAS STORAGE PROPERTIES, CHEMICAL SEPARATION, CATALYSIS, SENSORS, ETC., AND STUDY THE STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP. O8) EXPLORE NEW HIGHLY EMISSIVE BORON FLUOROPHORES, AND ADAPT THE PHOTOPHSICAS PROPERTIES BY CHEMICAL MODIFICATION AND/OR BY SELF-ASSEMBLY IN SOLID STATE. O9) PREPARATION AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHOTOPHSICAS AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRIDS BASED ON BORON AND SILSCHIOXAN CLUSTERS (POSS: T8, T0) FUNCTIONALISED WITH ORGANIC [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project focuses on developing environmentally tolerant technologies based on boron clusters, co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 264,990. It runs from December 30, 2016, to December 31, 2020, in Barcelona Province, Spain. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.