Material Synthesis in Non-Equilibrium Conditions - MaSNEC

Project summary

The MaSNEC project aims to grow innovative surfaces and control their properties via material synthesis in non-equilibrium conditions. The innovation will be to obtain solid material by precipitation reactions performed within diffusive gradients of concentration and convective flows due to injection of one reactant into the other. We will provide new protocols taking advantage of imposed out-of-equilibrium constraints to synthesize thermodynamically unstable solid polymorphs, manufacture nanoparticles and structured surfaces, composite coatings and multilayered tubes. By defining an innovative procedure to structure and create new solid materials, this project proposes a paradigmatic shift in surface and coating technology to produce innovative materials with targeted relationships between their micro and macrostructures. The novel concept will impact material sciences and provide new routes to synthetize materials for societal and environmental applications.