Name of the project: Development of ceramic nanofibers based on metals obtained from the waste recycling and prepared by needle less electrospinning

Call: Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, science, research and sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Project number: VEGA 2/0080/23

Principal investigator: Assist. Prof. Jana Pirošková, PhD.

Duration: 2023 - 2025

Anotation: The project is focused on the research of the preparation of ceramic fibers based on Cu, Zn, and Li/Co from the solutions obtained by the hydrometallurgical treatment of waste products. The project is mainly focused on the use of the different types of wastes as a source for the preparation of the nanofibrous systems by electrospinning technology. Parameters of the waste recycling process resulting in the ceramic precursor solutions along with the further ceramic fibers preparations will be the main point of interest. As the final output the project have to precisely define the fibers preparation route: from the hydrometallurgical treatment of the selected waste products up to the basic characterization of the produced fibers aimed for the special technical applications. The main aim of the project based on the obtained results is to predict the possibilities of the expensive raw materials replacement by the low-cost recycled raw materials and application of the final products in practice.