Making buildings sustainable with the help of microbes
LIAR aims to change the impact of buildings in our environment through the development of innovative building blocks able to use significant resources such as water, air or sunlight to produce oxygen, proteins and biomass. The technology employed converts the chemical energy of a pool of microorganisms into electricity.
Stories related to LIAR project
Future Tech Week 2020: Shining a Spotlight on the Science Creating Tomorrow’s Technologies
Culture & Society
About 100 EIC Pathfinder FET projects shared their successes, results and findings at the second annual Future Tech Week, hosted by FETFX in partnership with the European Innovation Council
Rachel Armstrong on microbes and urban sustainability
Culture & Society
"This fits into an overarching vision of urban sustainability and circular economy, placing the home at the heart of transformation"
Living building blocks: a new vision for future homes
Energy & Environment
Micro-agriculture bioreactors bring green technologies to ecological architecture
Building phonon-based IT devices that will consume lower power at room temperature
- Start-up/spin-off launched
Interconnecting the spread of infectious diseases with social, economic and other systemic aspects, able to analyse the systemic risk inherent to epidemics and social contagion processes.
Creating an octopus-inspired robot that can be useful in various applications including actuators and sensing
Finding new ways to protect endangered species and the environment by integrating artificial intelligence-based robotic animals
Studied and re-created the symbiotic relationships between robots and plants to produce natural self-sustaining architectural elements
Using lasers to create biomimetic surfaces that reduce friction reduction and lubricate materials for certain applications