Europe has a solid research and industrial base and is the home of bold, creative entrepreneurs. Yet it often needs to strengthen the use of its scientific excellence and industrial prowess to accelerate innovation and turn innovative SMEs into global technology giants. By reinforcing close cross-border collaboration between multiple actors, including academia, the public sector, industry and individual entrepreneurs, Horizon Europe aims to develop radical solutions to pressing societal challenges and fostering sustainable economic growth and employment. Through its Pillar III ‘Innovative Europe’, the programme will focus on supporting the development of disruptive and market-creating innovations and on enhancing European innovation ecosystems.
Pillar 3: Innovative Europe
HE Pillar 3_European Innovation
Horizon Europe: Pillar 3 Projects
FantastiCOF - Fabricating and Implementing Exotic Materials from Covalent Organic Frameworks
Specific programme: HORIZON EIC Grants
UPV/EHU Partner Status: Coordinator
UPV/EHU PI: Aurelio Mateo
Project start: 01/11/2022
Project end: 31/10/2025
Brief description: Superconducting devices based on Josephson Junctions (JJs) are among the most versatile devices in superconducting electronics. Yet challenges remain because conventional JJs are created using a variety of materials that have been identified as a source of noise, dissipation and dephasing, and also, that raise compatibility problems during the fabrication process. FantastiCOF aims at developing a disruptive methodology to prepare exotic highly crystalline superconducting moiré materials, which will exceed the current challenges and limitations of existing materials and methods. Achieving this would represent an important step forward in the fabrication of low-noise JJ devices that will accelerate the development of the next generation of superconducting electronic devices with enhanced performance and sensitivity. FantastiCOF is an archetype of a perfectly balanced high risk/high gain project. It proposes visionary research to tackle the challenges in the synthesis of moiré materials and in the fabrication of low-noise JJs (ambitious and beyond the state-of-theart), through the development of novel synthetic concepts (bottom-up) and the use of materials (2D covalent organic frameworks) with no precedents in the field, opening the door to a totally unexplored terrain (high risk), but providing tangible pathways towards achievements (solid risk assessment). The inherent high-risk is countered by a strongly interdisciplinary research team composed of 6 partners (5 academics + 1 SME) with different yet highly complementary backgrounds and demonstrated experience in their corresponding fields. Furthermore, FantastiCOF will have a high impact on a broad range of existing and emerging technologies that employ JJs (high gain), such as metrology, medicine, and quantum information technologies.