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Advanced magnetoelectric procedures for energy efficient and sustainable technologies (MAGYTECH)

  • Financial entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Sistema de I+D+i orientada a los retos de la sociedad. Total budget: 417.450€; Budget to our Group: 344.850€.
  • Duration: 2021-2025
  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Jordi Sort, Dr. Eva Pellicer
  • Personnel involved: All the group
  • Name of the project: MAGYTECH

MAGYTECH is a highly inter-disciplinary project whose primary goal is the use of new magnetoelectric materials and actuation protocols to boost energy efficiency in three technological domains: (i) data storage systems (by inducing a reduction of coercivity or, ultimately, ON-OFF magnetic transitions), (ii) tissue engineering (to promote cellular proliferation, differentiation and gene expression) based on the magnetoelectric stimulation of bone and muscle cells or neurons and (iii) magneto-electrocatalytic generation of hydrogen (and oxygen) as a green energy vector.

Energy-efficient and robust magneto-ionic memory device with neuromorphic functionalities (NEURO-MAG)

  • Financial entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Prueba de Concepto 2021. Total budget: 149.500€; Budget to our Group: 126.500€.
  • Duration: 2021-2023
  • Principal Investigator: Prof. Jordi Sort
  • Personnel involved: Monalisha Peda, Christina Stefani, Eva Pellicer, Enric Menéndez, Jordi Sort
  • Name of the project: NEURO-MAG

The Proof of Concept (PoC) project NEURO-MAG aims to develop a new type of magnetic memory device with outstanding energy efficiency and unique data protection characteristics (i.e., with anti-hacking and anti-counterfeiting properties), able to be integrated in two types of applications: (i) smart cards (to secure data in e.g. credit or ID cards), (ii) USB memory sticks (as security locks to protect access to the data stored in a computer or server). 

Magnetoelectric and magnetoionic effects stimulated by light

  • Financial entity: Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Proyectos Estratégicos Orientados a la Transición Ecológica y a la Transición Digital. Total budget: 360.000 €; Budget to our Group: 164.450 €.
  • Duration: 2022-2024
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Ignasi Fina, Prof. Jordi Sort, Dr. Enric Menéndez
  • Personnel involved: Zheng Ma, Enric Menéndez, Jordi Sort
  • Name of the project: Magnetoelectric and magnetoionic effects stimulated by light

The projects aims to control magnetoelectric and magnetoionic effects by light.