Arctic: identified mechanisms controlling black carbon concentrations

A new study conducted by researchers at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy, in collaboration with Stockholm University and ETH Zurich, has identified the mechanisms that control the Arctic transport of black carbon, an air pollutant that contributes to climate warming, while also establishing...

Towards the summer discovering special cones: cyclodextrins

In 2023 the “Bicyclos” project was selected for funding under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions, “Staff Exchange” of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. “Bicyclos” is a project coordinated by the Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (Isof) of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr). The project capitalizes on the international...

ForesTEEN: building a resilient European TEEN cultural ecosystem

ForestTEEN is a European cooperation project for research and innovation aims to innovate the cultural offering for the new generations, through a process of participatory observation that experiments with different listening settings. Funded by the European Union (EU) through the Creative Europe Programme, the project brings together a consortium of...

STRIVE305’s Business Resource Guide 2024

May is Small Business Month, a time to honor and celebrate the resilience, community impact, and dedicated efforts of small businesses and National Small Business Week (NSBW) is April 28th – May 4th! There are 31.7 million small businesses across the country and play a vital role in driving the...

Join America’s Seed Fund in Washington, D.C. See the special discount code below.

From June 17 -18, America’s Seed Fund returns to the Gaylord National Harbor outside of Washington, D.C., for the Spring SBIR/STTR Innovation Conference. This two-day event provides a valuable opportunity to accelerate your innovation journey, so please register to join us. SBIR/STTR Spring Innovation Conference June 17-18, 2024  Gaylord National...

Citrus and vine extracts to lower blood sugar levels

ENEA researchers are developing nutraceuticals prepared from orange, lemon and red vine extracts to lower high blood sugar, as part of the Med-Matrix-3 project, funded by the nutraceutical company Esserre. Preliminary results show that liver cells treated with some bioactive molecules from citrus fruits and red grapes are stimulated to...

Photovoltaics, ENEA coordinates project for high-efficiency tandem cells

Creating new materials for innovative and high-efficiency photovoltaic cells that make it possible to reduce the space taken by the systems, cut costs and lessen their environmental impact, so encouraging technological transfer towards industry, is the goal of the project GOPV, coordinated by ENEA, which includes the universities of Naples...

New materials from carbon fiber waste, also for aerospace

Creating new resistant, lightweight and low-cost composite materials for the automotive and aerospace sectors from carbon fiber processing waste is the goal of the three-year project MARiS, funded by the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy with over 5 million euro, which includes ENEA, Aerosoft spa (leader), Cnr (Institute...

Artificial intelligence to improve safety at workplaces

ENEA has developed AI tools to improve your workforce’s safety and efficiency. The first tests proved effective in two different working contexts, a multinational pharmaceutical company and an Italian metalworking company. The research was published in the international “Journal of Industrial Information Integration” and is part of the international project...

ENEA and Gauss Fusion partner up for fusion energy

The Italian national agency for energy and the European company will jointly develop technologies to accelerate the path towards nuclear fusion   The European company Gauss Fusion and ENEA have signed a partnership to develop technologies related to fusion energy in the following key areas: blanket, fuel cycle, superconductivity and...