SOFTCOMP
Soft Matter Composites – An Approach to Nanoscale Functional Materials
Project NoE FP6
Contact person (in Romania): Prof. Ladislau Vekas, Center for Fundamental and Advanced Technical Research, Timisoara Branch of the Romanian Academy, CCTFA and National Center for Engineering of Systems with Complex Fluids, University Politehnica Timisoara, UPT
Objectives:
The proposed network of excellence aims to establish a knowledge base for an intelligent design of functional and nanoscale soft matter composites. It will do so in overcoming the present 2 fold fragmentation of this extremely important field for the development of new materials at the interface of non-living and living matter where the delicate self organizing principles of polymeric, amphiphilic and colloidal matter are ubiquitous