H2020 MASTRO Project – Infographic Video

H2020 MASTRO Project - Infographic Video

MASTRO´s video has been announced on CORDIS WIRE EC platform! Find out about MASTRO's goals and technologies applied for developing intelligent bulk materials with self-responsive properties for the #transportation sector reducing maintenance costs and increasing consumer safety!

H2020 MASTRO Project - Infographic Video

MASTRO´s video has been announced on CORDIS WIRE EC platform! Find out about MASTRO's goals and technologies applied for developing intelligent bulk materials with self-responsive properties for the #transportation sector reducing maintenance costs and increasing consumer safety!

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MASTRO Advisory Board

Sectors

AERONAUTIC

Improve safety with intelligent self-responsive components, such as (i) self- sensing, self-deicing, self-curing, self-healing wing leading edges, (ii) self-deicing engine intakes and (iii) self-protected fuel systems and tanks

AUTOMOTIVE

Improve drivers’ safety and experience with enhanced durability of novel materials, such as (i) self-sensing, self-curing, and self-healing bumpers, (ii) self-deicing door gaskets and windscreen wipers area, (iii) self-deicing, self-protection battery filling systems and (iv) self-heating seats.

TRANSPORT NETWORK

Avoid sudden structure failures by developing new intelligent infrastructures with self-sensing properties, able monitor the integrity of materials. Enhance safety in roads and bridges with self-deicing and self-healing pavements.

The science behind our applications

The applications developed are based on three simple physical phenomena

When mechanical stress is applied on a metallic or semiconducting object, a change in its electrical resistivity is observed. This phenomenon is called piezoresistivity. The electrical resistivity is a fundamental property of materials related to the structure of atoms within the material that quantifies resistance to the flow of electric current.

Piezoresistivity

When an electric current flows through a material, heat is generated. The kinetic energy of the electrons in the current flow is partly transformed to heat when the electrons collide with the atomic ions of the material.