Projects

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.

„M-era.Net“ (From materials science and engineering to innovation for Europe) project “Wood-based Carbon Catalysts for Low-temperature Fuel Cells“ (WoBaCat). Project coordinator: University of Tartu (Estonia), partners: Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry (Latvia), Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (Lithuania, PI: dr. L. Tamašauskaitė Tamašiūnaitė), Horizont Pulp Paper Ltd (Estonia), reg. No. project3213, 2016-09-01 – 2018-08-31.

Anotation: Development of anode catalyst materials for the low-temperature fuel cell applications:

Creating of novel non-noble metal catalytic materials by means of electroless metal deposition and microwave synthesis;
Electrochemical characterization of the fuel cell anode catalyst materials and evaluation of the intrinsic electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen oxidation reaction;
Electrode engineering and MEA testing under realistic methanol PEM fuel cell operation conditions.

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.