BioBase: Biomaterial-based photonics and optoelectronics for sustainable ICT systems

Photonics enables widely used solutions in our everyday lives and industry, significantly protecting our well-being, health, environment, and resources.

The BioBase project aims to develop sustainable and renewable biomaterials to build sustainable photonic devices for ICT applications. We aim to

1. engineer biomaterials ( for on-demand optical and other physical properties;
2. integrate these biomaterials with deterministic structures and large-scale fabrication capability to fabricate various novel photonics devices that have never been demonstrated before, and
3. employ the photonic devices for sustainable ICT application demonstrations with superior performance for imaging, sensing and optical communication

The consortium project is lead by Professor Zhipei Sun (Aalto University).

Project group at Tampere University

Nonappa
Jani Patrakka
Burcu Firatligil-Yildirir
Matias Paatelainen