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project info
Start date: 1 October 2019
End date: 30 June 2023
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 757 832,00 €
EU contribution: 454 073,00 € (59,92%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2020
Managing authority: Conseil Régional de Lorraine (Pôle Europe)
European Commission Topic

TEXTIR (texturing and functionalisation of materials for biofilm control)

The TEXTIR project aims to design multifunctional textured surfaces through a combination of nitrogen jet particle projection texturing and functionalisation by biobased polymers of metal materials for biofilm control in biotechnological and industrial applications. This project has two components aimed at exploiting the different facets of bacterial biofilm control. The first part of this project is to texture and functionalise the surfaces of artificial prosthetic materials used in reconstructive surgery to give them new properties, in particular (i) osteoconductive/osteoinductive activity, (ii) antibacterial and (iii) inhibiting bacterial internalisation processes. The second part aims to texture and functionalise conductive surfaces in order to exploit their bio-electrocatalytic properties in the presence of biological objects with the aim of developing a laboratory-scale pilot enabling the production, control of purity and chirality of molecules of interest to the pharmaceutical industry. Thus, the materials developed in this component will be optimised for i) the electrical connection of microbes and enzymes allowing (ii) the controlled bio-electynthesis of molecules of interest.

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