The project is a CETP (Clean Energy Transition) project, the Swedish part is funded by the Swedish Energy Agency. Participating in the project, in addition to RISE's Corrosion and Smart Hardware departments, are eleven organizations/companies from Europe.

The project further develops dynamic cables for offshore energy. Inside the cables, fiber optic sensors are used to detect how the cable moves in the harsh environment out at sea. With the help of modelling, the movement and its impact on the cable's service life can be predicted.

The project is developing a method that makes it possible to paint the cables out at sea, at a speed of 20 m/min. The cable is painted with an environmentally friendly paint system that is robust and does not contain toxins, but still prevents fouling. The project will also develop a robot with the appearance of a bracelet, in order to be able to remove the fouling that still remains.

The cables used in the project are recycled using a new developed method.

The developed methods and products will be tested on a smaller scale in labs and nearshore testing outside Kristineberg in Sweden and in the Mediterranean Sea, and finally launched in an ocean demonstration in the Mediterranean.

Derived from renewable resources, fibre-based foams fulfill the demand for eco-friendly solutions across industries like automotive, construction, and packaging. Investing in fibre-foams is not just eco-conscious— it is a strategic step toward long-term resilience and market leadership in a greener future.

Partnering with RISE to further develop fibre-based foams provides industry with access to cutting-edge research, innovation, and expertise in sustainable materials. 

We offer: 

• Expertise in areas such as material selection, formulation, process development, and material performance testing
• State-of-the-art testing and pilot facilities
• Collaborative development opportunities

By working with RISE you can accelerate the commercialization of fibre-based foams, improve product performance, and meet the growing market demands for eco-friendly solutions, thus ensuring that you maintain your competitive edge.

This project aimed to identify one or several bioplastic materials suitable for development of piezofibres. The materials selection was based on experimental results on (i) piezoelectric response, (ii) processability with respect to melt spinning and coating with conductive graphene and (iii) suitability for use in a few products selected by the end-users in the project.

We found that several commercially available biobased thermoplastic polymers both, show piezoelectric characteristics and can be melt spun to textile fibres.

However, global textile consumption has also resulted in negative environmental and societal effects. The production of textiles requires large amounts of water, energy, and chemicals. Additionally, increased consumption leading to increased waste management contributes to climate change.

To address these challenges, there has been an increased focus on sustainability within the textile industry. Many companies are working to reduce their environmental impact by using more sustainable materials, reducing water and energy consumption, and improving waste management and recycling. Initiatives such as circular economy have also begun to gain traction to reduce overconsumption and promote more sustainable textile consumption.

RISE, together with Circulose (previously Renewcell), Domsjö Fabriker, and Mid Sweden University, has a project focusing on textile fiber recycling. It consists of four parts:

1. Characterization of textile waste pulp for viscose processing. 
2. Accessibility of recycled cotton fibers. 
3. Impact of synthetic fibers in the viscose process.
4. Blending of recycled textile waste and wood pulp.

NucleoDry is a unique consortium with expertise ranging from gene therapy development and researh (VIVAC group, Karolinska Institutet, KI) via hospital practice and GMP adaption (Vecura) and formulation development and optimization (RISE) to GMP manufacturing and upscaling (NorthXBio). Together these partners are working on improved collaboration for the benefit of future gene therapy development and manufacturing in Sweden as well as the exploration of dry vaccines with improved storage properties.

Majority of mRNA vaccines developed during the pandemic are formulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to enhance stability as well as cellular uptake and transfection. This is a complex formulation with demanding storage conditions of -80 to -20 °C putting high demands on distribution chains and storage facilities. Despite demanding storage condition, the shelf-life of the products are relatively short, approximately 6 months. The stability and storage of these products is therefore a major challenge for their availability world-wide. One route to increasing the shelf-life of biological modalities is removing water and obtaining a dry formulation where water is not present to facilitate chemical reactions and alterations. The decreased reactivity of the dry formulation can result in both prolonged shelf-life and increase the possible storage temperature.

There are several techniques for drying formulations. NucleoDry is exploring one option for more stable gene therapies with milder storage demands, lyophilization. Removing water through freeze drying is a gentle method that has been successful for many biological modalities. In the case of vaccines formulated in LNPs it poses several interesting research and development questions:

• Water is an integrated part of LNPs, what happens to the micro and nanostructure of the formulation upon drying?
• What happens to the integrity of the LNPs?
• Can we control how the LNPs are affected by tuning the drying process, or using cryoprotectants or other additives?
• How are the LNPs behaving in a rehydration process?
• Can it be affected by the method of rehydration?
• How is the activity in vitro affected by drying and rehydration?
• How does lyophilization affect product stability for mRNA vaccines?
• How does lyophilization affect storage climate?
• How is the activity in vivo affected by drying and rehydration?

Within NucleoDry mRNA is delivered from the VIVAC group at KI to the formulation unit at RISE. There the nucleotides are formulated in lipid nanoparticles using a microfluidic chip. The formulations are subsequently freeze dried and both wet, dried and resuspended formulations are analyzed for size, z-potential, encapsulation efficiency, cryo-TEM, LRSI x-rays, transfection in cells and mice in collaboration between RISE and KI. Vecura and NorthXBio performs initial evaluations of GMP adaptability of small-scale manufacturing and a plan for upscaling and GMP manufacturing for later clinical stages. These results can be used by other initiatives with the goal of gene therapy development and commercialization, within Sweden and abroad.

NucleoDry’s web page is a part of ri.se, to find out more about RISE, click on the black menu above.

Currently, there is a variety of meat analogues on the market, many of which suffer from undesirable off-flavours and are made of environmentally impacting protein isolates. An all-Sweden-based supply chain for a more sustainable production of legume protein concentrates and the food products thereof is a step towards better sustainability. The main challenge with using legume protein concentrates is reducing their off-flavours without impairing other protein properties.

Therefore, it is the aim of this project to adapt the manufacturing process of protein concentrates to improve the flavour. Simultaneously, a better understanding of the impacts of the various processing steps on the flavour and antinutrients will be gained by applying a multi-disciplinary, applied research approach looking at sensory properties, volatile and non-volatile compositional data, as well as physical and chemical functional property analyses. The results from this research project will increase the applicability of these concentrates in food products on the ever-competing market.