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Ildiko Lung

- INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M

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Developing innovative solution for mitigation of drought effects Call name: PNCDI IV, PN4GENERIC-COFUND-2023
COFUND-WATER4ALL-DIME 2024 - 2027

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Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO); UNIVERSITY OF CUKUROVA (TR); Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research - ZIWR, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, 8499000, ISRAEL (IL); Technical University of Moldova (MD); RAIT88 srl (IT)

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The scarcity of water resources is expanding worldwide due to the continuous growth of the imbalance between the availability and utilization of freshwater. This motivates researchers to find new water-saving methodologies and water management tools responding to future demands. The general objective of this project consists of the development of novel and low-cost material based on alginate and biochar functionalized with metal oxides and its application for the treatment of contaminated water, to support the implementation of strategies for mitigation of hydro-climatic extreme events, especially droughts in the catchment of different sources of irrigation water. Also, the material will be investigated for water saving and soil fertilization. The influence of this new material on bean crops will be studied, bean being widely used food due to their high protein content and vitamins. The specific objectives of the research are: Preparation and characterization of cost-effective new superabsorbent materials based on alginate and biochar functionalized with metal oxides. Assessment of the efficiency of recycling and reusing the superabsorbent material. Evaluation of the removal efficiency of organic pollutants from polluted water using the superabsorbent material. Testing the attenuation of antibiotic resistance genes and bacteria by the new adsorbent from greywater effluents using established molecular methods (qPCR and c sequencing); Assessment of the impact of the superabsorbent material on the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil and its effects on growth-development, yield, and crop quality in agricultural plants under current and predicted climate change scenarios. The current project is pertinent to the work program topic, contributing to the management of water resources by adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events and management tools by preparation of new materials that will be used for water decontamination thus increasing the water reserve that can be used for irrigation. Also, these superabsorbent materials can be used to store and gradually release water during droughts. The project, by its objectives, fits the following topics of the call: Topic 1. Resilience, adaptation, and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events – by developing a mitigation strategy to cope with hydro-climatic extreme events, especially drought. Topic 2. Tools for water management - in the context of hydroclimatic extreme events – by developing tools (e.g. superabsorbent material, multi-risk approach) to support the design and implementation of strategies for mitigating droughts in a catchment to sea perspective. In addition, following the influence of the superabsorbent materials prepared in the project on bean cultivation under current and future climate change conditions of temperature and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere will provide knowledge on how the proposed solution will perform today and in the foreseeable future. (This is also addressed in Topic 2). Because the countries involved in the project (Romania, Italy, Moldova, Turkey, India) have different climates, it can also fit with Topic 3: Improved water governance in the context of hydroclimatic extreme events and international contexts - Addressing and encouraging international cooperation in the field of water, including management of transboundary water resources and contribution to Water Diplomacy. The novelty of the project: i) the material prepared; ii) 3 simultaneous applications of the same material: pollutants removal, swelling, and drought stress mitigation under current and predicted climate change scenarios for crop cultivation as model plant bean crop and soil improvement; iii) the application of the material prepared for solar desalination and the elimination of ARGs and ARBs.

Innovative zeolite/graphene stone paper electrodes for pesticides detection in fruits and vegetables Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare pentru stimularea tinerelor echipe independente - TE-2021
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2021-0358 2022 - 2024

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO)

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Project website: https://www.itim-cj.ro/PNCDI/smartsens/

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The major scope of this project is to develop and validate a laboratory technology for the detection of pesticides (glyphosate, cymoxanil) in fruits and vegetables samples using a new stone paper sensor based on composite material (zeolites/ graphene-Co nanoparticles) and a portable device coupled with a smartphone. The project proposes a revolutionary, fast and ecological method of obtaining graphene with the electric field created by plasma. The new sensor will be designed, characterized and validated by the young team. The experimental proof of concept will be demonstrated by testing the new flexible electrodes in laboratory solutions containing pesticides to evaluate the electro-analytical characteristics: sensitivity, limit of detection and linear range. The results obtained in real samples of fruits and vegetables will be compared with the results obtained with the chromatographic method. The feasibility of the project is demonstrated by the excellent experience of the Project leader in the area of electrochemical sensors. The main deliverers of the project will be: 3 ISI papers; 4 presentations at conferences; 1 laboratory technology for pesticides detection; 1 patent application. The impact of the present project is going to be high for scientific community and for food safety, public health and quality control of life due to this smart and portable testing device for monitoring the presence of pesticides in food stuffs.

Improving "eco-friendly" ceramic blocks fabrication technology Call name: P 2 - SP 2.1 - Transfer de cunoaștere la agentul economic „Bridge Grant”
PN-III-P2-2.1-BG-2016-0203 2016 - 2018

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO); CEMACON - S.A. (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO)

Project website: https://constructii.utcluj.ro/files/2016-2017/bridge_grant/

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The project is set to improve the ceramic material produced by CEMACON Zalau Company, by optimizing the existing technology of fabrication in order to reduce the energy demand in operation and implicitly the embodied energy in nZEBs.

The target is to improve both, the thermal characteristics and cost, by adding recycled materials and pore generating additives into the fabrication recipes. In the first stage, the basic raw materials that compose the ceramic masonry blocks will be analyzed from microstructural point of view. In the second stage, the microstructural, thermal and mechanical characteristics of some reference samples produced by CEMACON Company following the existing fabrication recipes will be defined. In the third stage the existing recipes will be optimized and the newly obtained products will be analyzed from thermal and physical-mechanical point of view. The improvement of quality control will be targeted by developing a methodology able to identify the structural deficiencies of the ceramic blocks through synchronous thermography detection. In the last stage, cost-benefit and environmental impact analyses will be performed, following the anti-seismic design regulations and the nZEB standards.

Methodological guide for monitoring antibiotic residues and antimicrobial resistance in the environment as a supporting instrument for an enhanced quality management of surface waters and groundwater. Call name:
EEA Grants 3499/2015 -

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI BIOLOGICE CLUJ FILIALA A INCDSB BUCURESTI

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Project website: http://Http://enviroamr.ro

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The EnviroAMR project rose awareness on the fact that antibiotics and antimicrobial resistant microorganisms are considered novel classes of pollutants in the environment with major consequences on the health of humans, animals and plants. The EnviroAMR project has proposed a methodological guide for a standardized monitorization of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in the environment through a chemical and biological (phenotypic, genotypic, metagenomic) approach together with techniques of antibiotics/antibiotic resistance mitigation in wastewaters.

Effects of microwave fields on essential oils and secondary metabolites of some indigene plants Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - TE-2011 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0283 2011 - 2014

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Coordinating institution: Institutul National de Cercetare - Dezvoltare pentru Tehnologii Izotopice si Moleculare, Cluj-Napoca

Project partners: Institutul National de Cercetare - Dezvoltare pentru Tehnologii Izotopice si Moleculare, Cluj-Napoca (RO)

Affiliation: Institutul National de Cercetare - Dezvoltare pentru Tehnologii Izotopice si Moleculare, Cluj-Napoca (RO)

Project website: http://www.itim-cj.ro/PNCDI/ru76/index.html

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The seasoning plants (spices) are ingredients that, added to food and drinks give the flavor, taste and color, without having nutritional value. Due to their uses in medicine and cosmetics, it is important to know their composition and how it is affected by external factors (electromagnetic radiation, drought, and other types of stress). Among these plants, we selected three for our study: Anethum graveolens, Petroselinum crispum and Apium graveolens, rich in volatile oils and antioxidants (especially vitamin C).

The general objective of the project is the effects determination of microwave fields on volatile oils, vitamin C and secondary metabolites of some indigene plants. Within this objective will consider the following specific objectives: 1. Preparation of system for microwave irradiation of the plants considered for the study; 2. Selection of extraction methods for bioactive compounds analyzed from the seasoning plants considered for the study; 3. Monitoring changes of vitamin C amount from the irradiated plants compared to the reference plants; 4. Monitoring of the essential oils composition changes, from the irradiated plants compared to the reference plants; 5. Tracking BVOC variation in microwave stressed plants with different frequencies and powers; 6. Monitoring changes occurred in BVOC from the irradiated plants compared to the reference plants; 7. Concluding of the chemical and structural changes from irradiated plants.

Microwave influence on bioactive compounds from inland plants Call name:
PNII 51-098 / 2007 2007 - 2010

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO)

Project website: https://www.itim-cj.ro/PNCDI/microbio/index.html

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Microwave interaction with molecular and bio-molecular systems Call name:
CEx05-D11-80/P5/10.10.2005 2005 - 2008

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO); Academia Fortelor Terestre Nicolae Balcescu din Sibiu (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO)

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Quality analysis of vegetable oils by applying an assembly of performing chromatographic and optothermal methods Call name:
CEEX 1433 2006 - 2008

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO)

Project website: https://www.itim-cj.ro/~cleostean/uleiuri/

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Separation and determination of certain metals from water samples, using dithiophosphoric derivatives as complexing agents Call name:
CEEX C-2995 2005 - 2007

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO)

Project website: https://www.itim-cj.ro/~cleostean/metale/

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The substitution of the synthetic food additives with bioactive components extracted from natural renewable resources Call name: P 3 - SP 3.1 - Proiecte de mobilități, România-Moldova (bilaterale)
PN-III-P3-3.1-PM-RO-MD-2016-0133 2016 -

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M

Project partners: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO); Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei (MD); UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA "ION IONESCU DE LA BRAD" (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO)

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Problema alimentelor funcţionale cu componente bioactive de origine naturală este mai mult decât actuală pentru industria alimentară. Activitatea antiradicalică şi antimicrobiană a extractelor vegetale, bogate în polifenoli, reprezintă o sursă promiţătoare de soluţii alternative pentru utilizarea lor în scopul substituirii anumitor conservanţi alimentari de origine sintetică. Prezenţa antioxidanţilor naturali poate preveni apariţia unor boli legate de stresul oxidativ, prezentând efecte generale de protecţie şi ameliorare a sănătăţii. Obiectivul general al prezentului proiect constã în valorificarea complexă a resurselor şi deşeurilor agricole în scopul realizării unor produse sanogene, îmbogăţite cu antioxidanţi, substanţe cu molecule sensibile al cãror efect biologic poate fi afectat atât de condiţiile de fabricaţie şi păstrare a alimentelor, cât şi de cele din tractul gastro-intestinal. Rezultatele cercetărilor vor contribui la producerea unor alimente funcţionale, capabile sã diminueze impactul stresului oxidativ şi alergiilor nutriţionale, contribuind la integrarea conceptului de alimentaţie sanogenă şi la sporirea competitivităţii întreprinderilor locale. Proiectul înglobează şi importante aspecte educaţionale. Astfel, cercetătorii şi doctoranzii implicaţi în realizarea prezentului proiect, îşi vor antrena şi perfecţiona aptitudinile şi competenţele profesionale, proiectul propus vizând şi îmbunătăţirea calitãţii ştiinţifice a resursei umane.

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