ReMade@ARI – A recycling hub for materials research

According to the European Union's Circular Economy Action Plan, the industry can determine up to 80 percent of a product's subsequent environmental impact at the design phase. However, the linear manufacturing pattern offers few incentives to make products more sustainable. The research infrastructure project ReMade@ARI, which deals with innovative materials for key components in various areas such as electronics, packaging or textiles, wants to change this: The goal is to develop new materials with high recyclability and at the same time competitive functionalities. To this end, the institutions involved want to harness the potential of more than 50 analytical research infrastructures throughout Europe under the coordination of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR).

The ReMade@ARI platform will be the central hub for all sectors and research areas in which new materials for a circular economy will be developed. “We provide scientists who are working on the design of new recyclable materials with analytical tools that enable them to explore the properties and the structure of their material in smallest details up to atomic resolution. This requires the exploitation of the most diverse analytical methods, involving appropriate combinations of photons, electrons, neutrons, ions, positrons and the highest magnetic fields,” says Dr. Stefan Facsko, the project’s scientific coordinator. “Any scientist in academic or industrial research working on new recyclable materials should get in touch with us.”

A particular focus will be on scientists in research fields in which up to now, the potential of research infrastructures has not yet been exploited. “We will offer them an all-round service, closely collaborating with them to identify the relevant properties to be analyzed in order to develop the optimum material for a particular purpose. Based on that, the most suitable research infrastructures to measure these properties will be identified from among the pool of Europe’s unique facilities.”

ReMade@ARI will have a significant impact on the advancement of the circular economy. Overall, 40 partners of the ARIE network are involved in the project, among them 10 user facilities in Laserlab-Europe: CALT, CLL, CLPU, CUSBO, ENEA, FELIX, HiLASE, ICFO, LLAMS, ULF-FORTH.

The project is being funded by the EU with a budget of 13.8 million euros. The project coordinator is HZDR.

 
Further information:

Dr. Stefan Facsko I Head
Ion Beam Center at HZDR
Phone: +49 351 260 2987
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Dr. Barbara Schramm I Head
Research Programs and International Projects at HZDR
Phone: +49 351 260 2684
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Daniela Stozno I Head
Laserlab-Europe Office
Phone: +49 30 6392 1508
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