r-LightBioCom brings together 15 multidisciplinary stakeholders from research, academia and the automotive, aerospace and construction industries from across Europe and promotes a paradigm shift from the current linear to circular value chains for bio-based, lightweight, high-performance composites with a significantly improved environmental footprint. The project is funded by the European Commission with 4.2 million euros over the next three and a half years, started on 1 January 2023 and will end on 30 June 2026.
As part of the r-LightBioCom project, a sustainable catalogue of new advanced, bio-based and recycled high-performance composites with inherent recycling properties will be developed. The catalogue will consist of at least:
- three new types of bio-resins,
- four new biomass-derived nanofillers and additives and
- three families of sustainable fibre-based textile products.
In addition, two new, fast and efficient curing techniques are being developed in conjunction with new recycling technologies for the material catalogue in order to reduce the current high manufacturing costs of high-performance composites as well as the high energy consumption and emissions during production. In addition, a new, open optimisation method with associated tools is being developed that will enable sustainable and standardised design, modelling and systematic optimisation of high-performance composites.
All r-LightBioCom results will be validated in three use cases from the automotive, infrastructure and aviation industries with specific business models. In r-LightBioCom, the DLR-FK will characterise the properties of the high-performance composites developed in the project on a laboratory scale and develop a validated and automated numerical material calibration process for application in the project use cases. In addition, the DLR-FK is leading the dissemination, commercialisation and communication activities of the project.
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