NANO-NOCMAT NETWORK

Name of The Network: NANO-NOCMAT – Nanotechnology principles applied to agro-industrial wastes and by-products for improved performance of nonconventional materials and sustainable housing.

Objectives and expected outcomes

The introduction of Nanotechnology basic principles in association with local resources and available agro-industry waste will lead to high performance, more sustainable and durable constructive solutions as well as filtering membranes for the air and water purification. Other technologies of microencapsulation associated with supercritical treatment for curing will open the utilization of those agro-based materials to many different fields in the civil construction, infrastructure, and thermal insulation. Durability and life cycle assessment will certificate the sustainability and eco-friendly aspects of the developed technologies with interest to both industrialized (European Community) and be developing (Brazil and Guadeloupe, FWI) regions.

Members of network:

Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP (Brazil)
Universidade Federal de Lavras (Brazil)
INFIBRA S.A. (Brazil)
Université des Antilles (France)
Universidad Extremadura (Spain)
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia – UPV (Spain)
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia – INPA (Brazil)
Universidade Federal do Amazonas – UFAM (Brazil)
TNS Nano-tecnologia (Brazil)
IECA – Instituto Español de Cemento y sus aplicaciones (Spain)
ENCE – Energía (Spain)
Klabin S.A. (Brazil)
Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Switzerland)
INCDTP – Division Leather and Footwear Research Institute (Romania)
University Politehnica Bucharest (Romania)
EGE University (Turkey)
Marmara University (Turkey)
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Dielle shoes SRL (Dinu Laurentiu) Romania