Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials for biomedical and energy harvesting applications

MSCA – Doctoral Network

Started on the 1st of March 2024 – Duration 48 months

The Third MetacMed Training Event will be held at EMPA, Dubendorf, Switzerland, 9-13 February 2026

The MetacMed project is a European Doctoral Network funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2022 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) for  2.02 Mln of Euro (plus > 1 Mln of Euro by UKRI & SERI)

Doctoral Candidates
Training Events
Workshops

MetacMed in a nutshell

MetacMed aims to link basic research on acoustic and mechanical metamaterials (MMs) to health and well-being issues. The team includes beneficiaries and associated partners who, if working separately, would
not be able to make the planned advances in research and innovation. DCs will each consider ways in which human health can be improved using MMs, e.g. improvement in the resolution of biomedical ultrasound imaging for e.g cancer diagnostics, the design of better spinal implants, monitoring of bone healing, and the use of insoles to aid human walking. Another area of interest is to develop MMs that can be used for energy harvesting, to better power e.g. medical devices, and reduce reliance on conventional power sources.

The consortium

4 Beneficiaries, 9 Associated Partners: click on the Meta-bricks for further info!

Recruitment

Recruitment is finished!

University of Calabria, DIMES Dept, Cosenza, IT – Coordinator

DC1 – Metamaterial lenses for ultrasonic sub-wavength imaging in water

DC2 – Artificial Intelligence for discovering novel acoustic/mechanical metamaterials designs and properties

CNRS – IEMN, Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, FR

DC3 – Noise reduction and energy harvesting from walking via metamaterials

DC4 – Metamaterial-based devices for energy harvesting and metamaterial insoles

IMP-PAN, Gdansk, PL

DC5 – Metamaterial-enhanced ultrasonic GW monitoring for osseointegrated implants and fractured bone healing

DC11 – AI-aided topology optimization of phononic crystals

DC12 – Additively-manufactured metamaterial with embedded FBG sensors for human joints monitoring and rehabilitation

University of Leeds, Leeds, UK (funded via UKRI)

DC6 – Metamaterial adaptive filters for harmonic imaging in clinical applications

University of Messina, Messina, IT

DC7 – Filtering acoustic waves with multiphysics

University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (funded via UKRI)

DC8 – Metamaterials and metasurfaces for improved ultrasonic clinical screening (to be opened)

EMPA, Dübendorf, CH (funded via SERI)

DC9 – Guiding and confining wave energy in 3D chiral metamaterials

OrthoSens, Courroux, CH (funded via SERI)

DC10 – Metamaterials for spinal implants

Associated Partners

Funded by the

European Union

This project has received funding from the European Union’s EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Europe Horizon (HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks) under Grant Agreement No. 101119738 ‘MetacMed” (www.metacmed.eu). Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.