The “REusable MAsk Patterning” (REMAP) research project, coordinated by the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of UniGe, has been funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC) under the PathFinder Open programme, in support of innovative and disruptive technologies.

An international consortium coordinated by Dr. Diego Colombara from DCCI has received important funding from the European Union dedicated to projects that require multidisciplinary collaborations, due to their complexity and high-risk nature. Key skills of the DCCI, from Inorganic Chemistry (Dr. Diego Colombara, Prof.ssa Simona Delsante and Prof.ssa Serena De Negri) to Organic Chemistry (Dr.ssa Chiara Lambruschini), and Physical Chemistry (Prof. Davide Peddis and Prof Fabio Canepa), will join efforts to formulate a new class of bifunctional composite fluids called magnetorheological electrolytes (MRE).

The project aims to exploit these fluids to generate a radical paradigm shift of microfabrication processes, for which the environmental impact is becoming increasingly evident, especially considering the growing global demand for microchips.

Methodologies from traditionally close disciplines such as Chemistry, Physics and Engineering will interface with each other and with more distant sciences such as Economics and Management, during a four-year endeavour aimed at testing the founding hypotheses and transferring them to the industry as soon as possible. The composition of the consortium reflects the extent of this ambition; besides UniGe, other partners involved are the French CNRS, the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, the Greek National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", the company Solvionic SA, the University of Luxembourg and the certifying body RINA-Consulting.