4Elements

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4Elements

Location

  • 73370
  • Le Bourget-du-Lac
  • France

Business description

  • Venture studio dedicated to environmental transition

Objectives

SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON THE NATURE OF THE NEEDS

Bonjour,
Nous sommes à la recherche de technologies participant à la transition environnementale sur les sujets suivants :
- agri/Agro
- mobilité
- construction : matériaux, systèmes
- énergie : ENR, production, stockage
Nous cherchons en particuliers des développements technologiques de TRL 4-5, portées par des chercheurs sensibles à leur valorisation en startup. Merci d'avance.

Application fields

  • Aerospace
  • Agriculture, Livestock
  • Agrifood
  • Automtive and mobility
  • Chemistry
  • Construction
  • Energy systems
  • Energy: Energy production (ENR…)
  • Environment: protection and surveillance, natural and climatic risks, depollution
  • Environment: water
  • Materials
  • Railway
  • Waste transformation and recovery

Skills

2. Materials, mechanics and process
  • 2.1 Materials
  • Design/production of the materials
  • Metallic materials
  • Polymers, composites
  • Ceramic products
  • Biomaterials
  • Nanomaterials
  • Surface treatments and coatings
  • Properties and characterization (structural and functional)
  • Surface functionalisation
  • Durability / operating strength
  • Recycling
3. Manufacturing
  • 3.1 Manufacturing
  • Innovative materials
4. Chemistry
  • 4.1 Chemistry and environment
  • Agrofuels, synthetic fuels
  • Green chemistry
  • Effluent treatment
5. Energy and environment
  • 5.1 Renewable energies
  • Agrofuels / Biofuels
  • Biogas
  • Biomass, BTL synthetic fuel
  • Alternative fuels
  • Wind energy
  • Geothermal energy
  • Hydroelectric energy, tidal energy
  • Decarbonized hydrogen
  • Nuclear energy
  • Solar, thermal and photovoltaic energies
  • 5.2 Fossil energies
  • CO2 capture and carbon sequestration
  • Coal, CTL synthetic oil
  • Fossil energy extraction/production
  • Natural gas, hydrogen from gaz, GTL synthetic oil
  • Petroleum
  • Fossil energy processing
  • 5.3 Energy processing
  • Thermal components and systems
  • Power electronics
  • Hybridization of energy sources
  • Fuel cells
  • Heat production
  • Energy recovery and conversion
  • Thermo-electricity
  • 5.4 Management, transmission and stocking of energy
  • Batteries
  • Decentralized and intermittent energy
  • Energy management
  • Power integration of converters
  • Recovery of energy
  • Energy networks
  • Energy smart networks (smart-grid, smart-homes, smart-cities)
  • Energy stocking and stocking management
  • Supercondensators
  • 5.5 Uses of energy
  • Construction, building
  • Micro energy, mobile energy
  • Industrial processes, machines and equipments
  • Transportation, on board energy management
  • High energy efficiency
  • 5.6 Technologies and transverse methodologies
  • Materials and processes for energy
  • Modelization, simulation, studies and analysis
  • Policy decision tools
  • Modelling, design and reliability techniques
  • Technico-socio-economic trends
  • 5.7 Environmental impact
  • Life cycle
  • Environmental impact
6. Geosciences, natural resources, pollution and risks
  • 6.1 Air and water
  • Climatology, aerodynamics
  • Thermal waters
  • Water resource management, water management, public services
  • Hydrology and hydrogeology
  • Water quality, ecosystem quality
  • Alternative resources
  • Simulation, modelling
  • Socio-economy of water
  • Water technologies and processes
  • 6.2 Natural resource exploration and exploitation
  • Evaluation and management of geo-resources (mines, hydrocarbons, ...)
  • Exploitation of geo-resources, extraction processes
  • Geophysics and geology
  • Interoperability of data, geographic information systems, mapping
  • Sub-soil modelling, scientific calculation
  • Socio-economy of geo-resources
  • 3D visualization, virtual reality
  • 6.3 Marine environment
  • Embedded electronic architecture
  • Behavior and protection of materials and structures in marine environment
  • Design of marine mechanical systems
  • Benthic ecology
  • Geological resource exploration and exploitation techniques
  • Geophysics and geodynamics
  • Hydrodynamics and oceano-meteo: modelling, statistics, model basins
  • Inshore marine environment
  • Metrology: bathymetry, acoustic and seismic imaging…
  • Sub-marine optics
  • Physico-chemistry, molecular biology
  • Stratigraphy, sedimentary and hydrodynamical processes, instabilities
  • 6.4 Pollution, industrial effluents, wastes
  • Biotechnology, biodegradable materials
  • Depollution, purification
  • Detection and prevention of pollutions
  • Sustainable development
  • Management of pollutions
  • Environmental metrology, sensors
  • Waste treatment processes, recycling
  • Simulation, modelling
  • 6.5 Risks
  • Floods
  • Geophysics and geotechnics, rock and soil mechanics
  • Climate change impact
  • Metrology
  • Anthropogenic risks
  • Natural risks
7. Mobility, transportation, engines, propulsion and fuels
  • 7.1 Mobility
  • Acoustics, noise nuisances, pollutions
  • Technological development of vehicles
  • Infrastructures
  • Driver assistance
  • Maintenance, reliability, on board diagnostic (vehicles and infrastructure)
  • Energy management optimization of road and rail vehicles
  • Protection of transport users and crash tests
  • Risk and decision making
  • Transportation safety
  • Driving simulators, simulation and modelling
  • Geographic information systems
  • Traffic: engineering and management
  • Autonomous navigation
  • Road hybrid vehicle
  • Rail hybrid vehicle
  • Smart vehicle
  • Embedded systems, software architecture and systems
  • Other
  • 7.2 Motorization
  • Engine/fuel adequacy
  • Propulsion efficiency increase
  • Alternative fuels
  • Fossil fuels
  • Fuels from biomass
  • Combustion
  • Engine controls
  • Hybridation
  • Lubricants
  • Tuning and calibration of engines
  • Flex fuel engines
  • Heat engine
  • Post-processing
  • Environmental impact reduction
  • Simulation and modelling
  • Non-conventional propulsion systems
  • Turbines
  • Energy storage for electric propulsion
  • Fuel cell and hydrogen storage
  • Electrification
  • Fuel and air quality
  • Powertrain
  • Power efficiency
  • Simulation
  • 7.4 Aeronautics and space
  • Alternative aeronautical fuels
  • Electromagnetic compatibility and high-frequency
  • Vehicle development (aerodynamics, structures...)
  • Drones
  • Infrastructures
  • Electric motors
  • Operation procedures, intermodality, new concepts
  • Environmental impact reduction (emissions, noise)
  • Simulation and modelling
  • Space
  • Energy stockage and management
  • Embedded systems
  • Other
  • 7.5 Sea
  • Cavitation
  • Maritime chains
  • Innovative materials for maritime environment
  • Low emission motorization
  • Harbors and intermodality, port/rail interface
  • 7.6 Transportation of goods
  • Railway freight and railway corridors of freight
  • Transportation/productive systems interaction
  • Goods in cities
  • Optimization of transportation network use
  • Transportation management
  • Distribution systems
  • 7.7 Pratices
  • Environmental impact
8. Construction, civil engineering industry and regional development
  • 8.1 Construction, building and civil engineering
  • Smart building, low consumption / positive energy building
  • Sensors
  • Durability
  • Management and maintenance
  • Sustainable building and sustainable rehabilitation of buildings
  • Infrastructures and engineering structures
  • Materials for buildings and for the civil engineering industry
  • Soil mechanics, geotechnics
  • Modelling
  • Protection against nuisances (acoustic and emissions)
  • Material recycling
  • Security
  • Building techniques
  • New environmental technologies
  • 8.2 Regional development, national planning
  • Urban planning and management
  • Sustainable development
  • Circular economy
  • Transportation infrastructures
  • Metropolisation of the territory
  • Region management policies, behavior and practices
  • Distribution networks
  • Resource (conservation and economy)
  • Resilient territories
  • Urban planning
9. Medical and health technologies
  • 9.9 Autonomy
  • Sensors
10. Food production and nutrition
  • 10.1 Food production and nutrition
  • Nutritional studies
  • Sensory studies
  • Feeding behavior
  • Food matrix structure
  • Clinical studies
  • Industrial transfer
  • Retention of nutritional and sensory
  • Athlete nutrition (performance, fatigue, recovery)
  • Hydration
  • Metabolomics
  • New foods, new processes
  • Nutrigenomics
  • Health Effects Studies
  • Food security and quality
  • Cooling and air conditioning
12. Agriculture
  • 12.1 Agriculture
  • Agricultural equipments
  • Green biotechnology
  • Genetics and plant breeding
  • Plant Improvement
  • Crop Protection
  • Biocontrol
  • Cultivation systems
  • Resource Management
  • High-throughput Phenotyping
  • Viticulture
  • Cereals
  • Oleo-protein crops
  • Precision farming
  • Feeding and breeding systems
  • Animal genetics
  • Breeding
  • Fish farming