STUDY OF FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF NANOMATERIALS AND THEIR REACTIVITY IN THE CONTEXT OF SEVERAL TECHNOLOGICAL AREAS

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: Valladolid Province (NUTS ES418); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 102,850; EU co-financing EUR 51,425 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2019-01-01 to 2022-12-31. 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): THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH TO BE CARRIED OUT IN THE PRESENT PROJECT IS TO IMPROVE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE BASIC MECHANISMS THAT RULE SEVERAL PROCESSES OF INTEREST FOR SOCIETY, AND THE PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS THAT ARE EXPECTED TO IMPROVE THE CONTROL OF SUCH PROCESSES. THESE PROCESSES INCLUDE CORROSION, CATALYTIC ACTIVITY, BIODEGRADATION OF IMPLANTS, PRESERVATION OF MAGNETISM UPON OXIDATION, METAL EXTRACTION FROM MINERALS, AND ENERGY PRODUCTION IN LARGE SCALE AND FOR IMPULSING VEHICLES. ALL OF THESE PROCESSES HAVE AN IMPORTANT ECONOMIC IMPACT AND ADDITIONALLY THEIR APPROPRIATE CONTROL CAN LEAD TO CLEANER METHODS BENEFICIAL TO ENVIRONMENT. THE MATERIALS TO BE STUDIED INCLUDE ZN-MG ALLOYS, BOTH AS NANOPARTICLES AND AS AN EXTENDED AMORPHOUS ALLOY; THESE ARE IMPORTANT FOR THEIR ANTICORROSIVE PROPERTIES AND POTENTIAL HYDROGEN STORAGE CAPACITY, AND FOR THEIR USE AS BIOMATERIALS. ANOTHER GROUP OF MATERIALS TO CONSIDER ARE MIXTURES OF METAL OXIDES; IN THE EXTENDED FORM THEY ARE CANDIDATES AS ELECTROLYTES FOR METAL EXTRACTION FROM MINERALS USING EFFICIENT AND CLEANER METHODS, WHILE NANOMETRIC OXIDES OF TRANSITION METALS ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF THEIR MAGNETIC AND CATALYTIC PROPERTIES. WE WILL ALSO CONSIDER SINGLE- AND MULTI-COMPONENT METALLIC SYSTEMS, ESPECIALLY THOSE NANOSTRUCTURES WITH INTERESTING CATALYTIC PROPERTIES AND THOSE LIQUID METALS AND ALLOYS RELEVANT AS FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS IN FUSION REACTORS. THE LAST GROUP OF MATERIALS WE WILL STUDY INCLUDES NANOPOROUS CARBON-BASED SYSTEMS, METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS AND OTHER MATERIALS WITH POTENTIAL HIGH CAPACITY FOR HYDROGEN STORAGE. THERE IS A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF ALL THESE SYSTEMS AND THEIR NANOMETRIC STRUCTURE, WHICH IS ITSELF DICTATED BY THE QUANTUM MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF THE ELECTRONS TO THE GEOMETRIC ATOMIC CONFIGURATION. WE WILL DETERMINE THE BASIC INTRINSIC PROPERTIES OF THE MATERIALS (STRUCTURAL, DYNAMICAL, MAGNETIC) AND STUDY THEIR INTERACTION WITH EXTERNAL AGENTS [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 studies the structural and electronic properties of nanomaterials and their reactivity, co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 102,850. It runs from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2022, in Valladolid Province, Spain. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.