Project duration: 1 January 2018 – 31 March 2021
Objective
In day to day products, including labels and packaging, there is a rising consumer demand for smart products, that is to say objects able to be part of a digital ecosystem. Embedding sensors and communications technologies while minimizing the environmental impact of these smart products is a key challenge for the future.
The solution (technology)
The major way of achieving this is to work on the base materials of the electronics components to be embedded in, by providing organic materials instead of rare and toxic inorganic ones when applicable.
That’s the objective of the SUPERSMART project which will enable the direct printing on paper of sensors, displays, and electronics instead of bulk conventional electronics devices. It will make it easy the recyclability of such smart products.
Partnership
- Arkema France, France (Lead partner)
- Arjowiggins Rives S.A.S, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-2 (CNRS-UB), France
- Coatema Coating Machinery, Germany
- French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer), Germany
- Joanneum Research, Austria
- Luquet & Duranton, France
- Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. (VTT), Finland
- New University of Lisbon – Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT NOVA), Portugal
- Université de Bordeaux, France