METAL CLUSTERS IN CATALYSIS

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: A Coruña Province (NUTS ES111); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 106,722; EU co-financing EUR 85,377.6 (co-financing rate 80%), as stated by the source. Runs 2016-01-01 to 2018-12-31. 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): METAL NANOPARTICULATES (NPSS) WITH SIZES OF 2-3 NM SHOW SCALABLE AND SIZE-DEPENDENT PROPERTIES THAT CONVERGE TO THOSE OF THE MASS STATE BY INCREASING DIMENSIONS. HOWEVER, WHEN THE PARTICLE SIZE IS COMPARABLE TO THE FERMI WAVELENGTH OF AN ELECTRON (ABOUT 0.52 NM FOR GOLD OR SILVER), THE PROPERTIES DO NOT FOLLOW THESE SCALING LAWS DUE TO THEIR PARTICULAR GEOMETRIC AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES. NEW AND FASCINATING PROPERTIES APPEAR IN THIS REGION NANOMETRICA-SUBNANOMETRICA AS IT MOVES FROM NPS TO QUANTUM ATOMIC CLUSTERS (AQCS). DUE TO THIS QUANTUM REGIME OF SIZES DISCRETE ENERGY STATES APPEAR IN THE AQCS OF METALS AND A MODULABLE HOMO-LUMO BANDGAP, SIMILAR TO WHAT HAPPENS BETWEEN THE DRIVING BANDS AND VALENCIA IN SEMICONDUCTORS (SC). IT OPENS UP THE POSSIBILITY OF USING AQCS AS NEW SCS AT THE ATOMIC LEVEL, BEING ABLE TO CONTROL THE BANDGAP BY SIMPLY CHANGING THE NUMBER OF ATOMS, THE TYPE OF METAL AND THE SUPPORTING MATERIAL. PREVIOUS PROJECTS OF THE GROUP ON NPS LAID THE BASIS FOR THE RESEARCH CARRIED OUT DURING THE LAST MAT2012-36754-C02-01, WHERE WE DEMONSTRATED THE CATALITICAS AND PHOTOCATALITICAS ACTIVITIES OF AQCS. This PROJECT HAVE THE AMBICATION OF PROPONING POTENTENTLY VIABLE SOLAR ENERGY SOLAR ENERGY RESOLUTIONS AND CONVERTING SOLAR ENERGY, AS THE USE OF AQCS as RADICAL Trappers. THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT has been divided into the following SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: 1) AQC SYNTHESIS; 2) ORGANIC OXIDATION BY AQCS; 3) PHOTOCATALYSIS BY AQC; 4) AQCS AS RADICAL TRAPPERS; 5) RECOVERY AND RECYCLING OF AQCS CATALYSTS. THE FIRST OBJECTIVE FOCUSES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF GRAMS/DAY OF AQCS OF DIFFERENT SIZES AND MATERIALS, WITH A SPECIAL EFFORT IN PURIFICATION METHODS, SO THAT THEY CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN THE TECHNOLOGIES BASED ON AQC THAT WILL BE DEVELOPED IN THE REST OF THE PROJECT TASKS. SECONDLY, BASED ON THE PHOTOCATALITIC PROPERTIES OBSERVED IN AQCS, PHOTODEGRADATION OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS WILL BE EXPLORED AND OPTIMISED. THE THIRD [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 operation titled 'METAL CLUSTERS IN CATALYSIS' was co-funded by the EU under the Multi-regional Spain programme, with a total budget of EUR 106,722. It ran from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2018, in A Coruña Province, Spain. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.