Head of department dr. Loreta Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė
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About department
Project of Baltic Research Programme “Sustainably produced carbon nanomaterials for energy applications [SuNaMa]”. Project promoter: State Research Institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (Lithuania, PI: prof. habil. dr. Eugenijus Norkus), partners: SINTEF as, by its institute SINTEF Industry (Norway, PI: dr. Mari Juel), Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry (Latvia, PI: dr. Galina Dobele), and National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (Estonia, PI: dr. Ivar Kruusenberg).
Project execution time - 01.12.2021 to 31.12.2023, project number - LT08-1-ŠMSM-K01-012, contract No. S-BMT-21-12 (LT08-2-LMT-K-01-055)).
Total eligible costs of the project: 988000,00 EUR (EUR 839800,00 grant from the EEA Financial Mechanism and EUR 148200,00 budget co-financing)
Anotation: The main objective of the SuNaMa project is to develop innovative, high-performance, highly conductive, electrocatalytically active, durable, cost-effective, and high surface area nanocarbon materials. These materials are potential candidates to be employed in low-carbon energy technologies such as ultracapacitors, metal-air batteries, and fuel cells. This would represent a significant breakthrough in the renewable and low-carbon energy technology sector and exponentially widen the market with an environmentally friendly, low-cost technology with a substantial impact on reducing CO2 emission as well the environmental hazard produced by various industries. The focus of the SuNaMa project is to improve the performance of the state-of-the-art ultracapacitors, metal-air batteries, and fuel cells as well significantly reduce the price of these technologies.
R&D contract with USA firm LAM Research Corporation (California, Silicon Valey), Supervisor Prof. Dr. Habil. E. Norkus, 2016 – 2017.
Investigation of deposition of various metals or their alloys on various substrates using autocatalytic metal ions reduction. Development of novel technologies and their patenting.
Project of National Research Programme “Towards future technologies“ “Formation of functional bio-inspired surfaces for space applications via hybrid laser-chemical processing (FunSpace). Supervisor Dr. Mindaugas Gedvilas, 2016-04-01 – 2018-12-31.
Anotation: The project is devoted to develop bio-inspired shark skin and butterfly wing like surface structures with hybrid direct laser wright and chemical stamp technology, which can be implemented for the efficiency enhancement of the spacecraft micro-yet and cooling injection nozzles. The modeling and experimental work on surface friction reduction in the liquid/gas environment will be carried out in order to optimize the structure geometry.