In the competition of 66 projects submitted to the Top Research call in the OP JAK programme (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, CR), the AMULET project (Advanced MUltiscaLe materials for key Enabling Technologies), aimed at supporting research with the potential for excellent results applicable in practice, was successful. The funding of the OP JAK programme in the programming period 2021-2027 is drawn from the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and is intended for excellent research teams, which will both help Czech scientific institutions to deepen their relations with foreign partners and in the long term also strengthen the competitiveness of the Czech Republic.
In the AMULET project (Advanced MUltiscaLe materials for key Enabling Technologies) 8 partners are cooperating. The coordinator is the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS and other members of the consortium are the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, the Faculty of Science of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS, the Institute of Physics of the CAS, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (group of prof. Jana Vejpravová-Kalbáčová) and the Faculty of Science of Charles University, Institute of Nuclear Physics of the CAS and the University of Chemical Technology in Prague.
Professor Konstantin Novoselov, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for his discovery of graphene, will oversee the progress and direction of the research on the project's international scientific board.
The goal of the consortium is to promote the widest possible use of anticipated newly developed materials with unique functionalities. Experts will investigate how multiscale materials interact with biological environments, whether they can be used for electrochemical or optical sensors, in electro-photochemical catalysis for the removal of pollutants from air and water, and last but not least, they will test new nano/micro-devices that can be used for energy conversion, production and storage.
