Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials for biomedical and energy harvesting applications
MSCA – Doctoral Network
Started on the 1st of March 2024 – Duration 48 months
Recruitment is finished!
The MetacMed project is a European Doctoral Network funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2022 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) for 2.02 Mln of Euro (plus > 1 Mln of Euro by UKRI & SERI)
MetacMed in a nutshell
MetacMed aims to link basic research on acoustic and mechanical metamaterials (MMs) to health and well-being issues. The team includes beneficiaries and associated partners who, if working separately, would
not be able to make the planned advances in research and innovation. DCs will each consider ways in which human health can be improved using MMs, e.g. improvement in the resolution of biomedical ultrasound imaging for e.g cancer diagnostics, the design of better spinal implants, monitoring of bone healing, and the use of insoles to aid human walking. Another area of interest is to develop MMs that can be used for energy harvesting, to better power e.g. medical devices, and reduce reliance on conventional power sources.
The consortium
4 Beneficiaries, 9 Associated Partners: click on the Meta-bricks for further info!
Recruitment
Recruitment is finished
University of Calabria, DIMES Dept, Cosenza, IT – Coordinator
DC1 – Metamaterial lenses for ultrasonic sub-wavelength imaging in water
DC2 – Artificial Intelligence for discovering novel acoustic/mechanical metamaterials designs and properties
CNRS – IEMN, Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, FR
DC3 – Noise reduction and energy harvesting from walking via metamaterials
DC4 – Metamaterial-based devices for energy harvesting and metamaterial insoles
IMP-PAN, Gdansk, PL
DC5 – Metamaterial-enhanced ultrasonic GW monitoring for osseointegrated implants and fractured bone healing
DC11 – AI-aided topology optimization of phononic crystals
DC12 – Additively-manufactured metamaterial with embedded FBG sensors for human joints monitoring and rehabilitation
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK (funded via UKRI)
DC6 – Metamaterial adaptive filters for harmonic imaging in clinical applications
University of Messina, Messina, IT
DC7 – Filtering acoustic waves with multiphysics
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (funded via UKRI)
DC8 – Metamaterials and metasurfaces for improved ultrasonic clinical screening (to be opened)
EMPA, Dübendorf, CH (funded via SERI)
DC9 – Guiding and confining wave energy in 3D chiral metamaterials
OrthoSens, Courroux, CH (funded via SERI)
DC10 – Metamaterials for spinal implants
Associated Partners
Funded by the
European Union
This project has received funding from the European Union’s EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Europe Horizon under Grant Agreement No 101119738