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However, high and long-term performing organic semiconductors compatible with cheap solution-processed techniques are scare and thus, the achievement of processability and stability in organic devices is still a current challenge th",{"id":17,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":18,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":21,"abstract":22},"cordis-european-research-council-award-641222","ExtraLytics: Big Data Analytics for Real Estate","THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD","UK","€148,377","Data is becoming the key to effective decision making in more and more aspects of modern society. Big data analytics provide insight into complex processes considering a breadth of factors. This promises to increase the efficiency of decision making in areas such as policy making, research, product development, or financial and retail markets. Currently, big data analytics is employed only by technologically savvy organisations with control over the relevant data. This further exacerbates the in",{"id":24,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":25,"piName":10,"institution":19,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":26,"abstract":27},"cordis-european-research-council-award-641252","A portable single-molecule fluorescence imager","€150,000","This proposal focuses on activities that support the advancement of a novel compact optical microscope to the proof-of-concept stage. The microscope (“NanoImager”) is based on single-molecule fluorescence imaging; its development resulted from efforts to improve microscopes within the ERC project POLMACHINE. Single-molecule fluorescence is the most popular way of visualizing single molecules, especially in living cells; imaging-based microscopes are the most popular of fluorescence microscopes. 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The current record stands at 0.2 g Pt\u002FkW and a cost o",{"id":34,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":35,"piName":10,"institution":36,"country":37,"year":13,"amount":26,"abstract":38},"cordis-european-research-council-award-640982","Extracting Super-Resolution from Classical Fluorescence Microscopy","STICHTING VU","NL","The beginning of this century has seen the development of optical super-resolution fluorescence microscopic methods, which yield pictures to resolutions of a few tens of nanometers. This breakthrough has transformed the field of cellular biology, but relies on approaches generally demanding in terms of optics, and which can be applied only on limited classes of fluorophores. This project aims at preparing the commercialization of a new, simple, and cheap, way of extracting super-resolution from ",{"id":40,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":41,"piName":10,"institution":42,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":43,"abstract":44},"cordis-european-research-council-award-640749","DHaptics: Creating silent and sharp Mid-air Haptics using phased array of ultrasound transducers","THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX","€149,170","A fundamental shift is underway in how we interact with our computers and devices. Products such as Microsoft’s Kinect and Leap Motion’s desktop controller enable us to dispose of the keyboard and mouse and instead control our devices without touching them. Touchless sensing products are being launched across the consumer electronics, automotive and healthcare industries. A significant and well noted problem with touchless sensing is a lack of tactile feedback.The PI and his team are the first i",{"id":46,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":47,"piName":10,"institution":48,"country":49,"year":13,"amount":26,"abstract":50},"cordis-european-research-council-award-641416","Inkjet Printed Ultrafast Batteries and Large Integrated Capacitors","KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN","SE","Energy storage has become a global concern in modern society. With his ERC Advanced grant, Prof. Östling, an expert in solid state electronics from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, is trying to develop emerging devices based on silicon technology but with other materials than silicon, such as graphene and its analogue MoS2. These unique materials offer opportunities to novel applications, especially those related to energy storage. 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Currently, the cryptographic keys and authentication credentials that reside on servers inside networks constitute single points of failure: it suffices for the attacker",{"id":59,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":60,"piName":10,"institution":61,"country":20,"year":13,"amount":62,"abstract":63},"cordis-european-research-council-award-641382","Next-generation of high performance, ultra-light carbon nanotube based heaters","THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE","€149,995","We have created a high performance, ultra-light and ultra strong carbon nanotube (CNT) film electrical heaters. Compared to traditional heating materials, they are super fast (reach the terminal temperature in less than (1\u002F4s), lighter (100x), resistant to corrosion (concentrated acids do not affect them) and cheaper (a fraction of the cost). The heaters are fully scalable from nano-sized devices to full size applications on commercial aircrafts. 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For over 15 years, our laboratory at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has been developing an instrument called a ‘magnetic trap’. Initially developed in order to study the mechanisms of DNA replication and repair, we have discovered in the past few years that this instrument c",{"id":85,"funder":7,"programme":8,"title":86,"piName":10,"institution":54,"country":55,"year":13,"amount":87,"abstract":88},"cordis-european-research-council-award-639304","Water column profiler for quantification of photosynthesis and biomass of phytoplankton in natural and man made water bodies","€149,775","Watecco is a unique, photoacoustics based profiler, designed to determine the depth distribution of natural phytoplankton assemblages and of algal cells in mass cultures and of their photosynthetic efficiency. 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