The final meeting in Porto (Portugal) marks the end of the four-year EsSENce network project for Prof Robert Böhm's lightweight construction research group.
The four-year network project EsSENce "High-performance carbon-based composites with smart properties for advanced sensing applications" is coming to an end for the lightweight construction research group with the final meeting from 1 to 3 October 2024 in Porto (Portugal). Prof. Robert Böhm from the Faculty of Engineering at HTWK Leipzig led the "Sensing Application & Smart Sensor Development" working group in this so-called Cost Action funded by the Horizon Europe research programme.
Establishing numerous new contacts
An essential element of the Cost Actions are so-called Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs), in which laboratory stays in foreign research laboratories are financed in order to carry out joint research work. Within these STSMs, Prof Oğuzhan Öztürk (Konya University of Technology, Turkey), Prof Ferhat Şadak (Bartin University, Turkey), Dr Mustafa Zor and Prof Ferhat Şen (Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey) were welcomed to HTWK Leipzig for research visits between 2022 and 2024. Dr Dmytro Rassokhin from the Lightweight Construction research group completed an STSM at the Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) in Dübendorf (Switzerland).
Summer schools
The EsSENce project also organised four summer schools: 2021 at the University of Ghent (Belgium), 2022 at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy), 2023 at EMPA in Dübendorf (Switzerland) and 2024 at the automotive company Dallara in Parma (Italy). In 2021 and 2022, Prof Böhm was a lecturer at the respective summer schools. Davood Peyrow Hedayati took part in the 2023 Summer School and Dr Rassokhin travelled to Parma in 2024.
Important research impetus
Essence also provided numerous new research impulses. The research topic of nanoparticle-reinforced composites was successfully established at the HTWK, enabling the Printcap project to be acquired for the HTWK from 2022. Numerous other projects are currently in preparation.
The impetus provided by Essence has also led to the publication of several important scientific articles in specialist journals :
- Peyrow Hedayati, D.; Singh, G.; Kucher, M.; Keene, T.; Böhm, R.: Physicochemical modelling of electrochemical impedance in solid-state supercapacitors. Materials (2023), 16, 1232. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16031232
- Fateixa, S.; Landauer, M.; Schneider, J.; Kumar, S.; Böhm, R.: Additive manufacturing-enabled architected nanocomposite lattices coated with plasmonic nanoparticles for water pollutant detection. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering (2023), 2300060, https://doi.org/10.1002/mame.202300060
- Zschiebsch, W.; Sturm, Y.; Kucher, M.; Peyrow Hedayati, D.; Behnisch, T.; Modler, N.; Böhm, R.: Multifunctionality analysis of structural supercapacitors - A Review. Materials (2024), 17, 739. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17030739
- Peyrow Hedayati, D.; Termine, S.; Bascucci, C.; Al Malak, P.; Bondavalli, P.; Semitekolos, D.; Clemens, F.; Charitidis, C.; Böhm, R.: Carbon-based nanocomposites for sensing applications - a review. Journal of Physics: Materials (2024), submitted
- Öztürk, O.; Steffen, L.; Okay Altuntas, I.; Kahnt, A.; Böhm, R.: Self-sensing behaviour of carbon fibre reinforced lightweight cementitious composites under simultaneous conditions of mechanical loading and environmental effects. Construction and Building Materials (2024), submitted
- Peyrow Hedayati, D.; Singh, G.; Schelkow, R.; Kucher, M.; Malik, S.; Keene, T.D.; Böhm, R.: Physics-based modelling of thermo-electro-chemical coupling in a solid-state supercapacitor. Journal of Solid-State Electrochemistry (2024), to be submitted
