Intercollegiate Platform on Powder-Based Synthesis and Modelling

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Title
Intercollegiate Platform on Powder-Based Synthesis and Modelling

CoPED ID
beb052fe-6ab0-4098-bb81-82007e4576c0

Status
Closed

Funders

Value
£500,788

Start Date
Jan. 1, 2008

End Date
Dec. 31, 2011

Description

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Powder-Based Processing and Modelling is an enabling fundamental research theme in Materials, encompassing applications in nanotechnologies, electronics, energy and biotechnologies. This Platform Grant aims to further advance our innovative processing techniques in powder ink-jet, electrohydrodynamic jetting, filament freeforming, and dry-powder dispensing, with high-throughput capabilities for materials discovery; and apply such techniques to clean energy generation / storage and to biomaterials /structures. Multiscale materials modelling techniques will continue to be developed and applied for the design and development of materials structures and systems for such applications. This intercollegiate collaborative research platform will consolidate the integration of research strengths in powder processing and modelling from both QMUL and UCL for much added value. It will also enhance our international stance and recognition in the research theme, and facilitate strategic changes of our research, directing them into tangible applications towards energy, security, and biomaterials, some of the pressing challenges of our age. Specifically, we have identified ways of refining the resolution of dry powder dispensing in solid freeforming by ultrasonic actuation and laser guidance and in filamentary solid freeforming methods by extrusion through <50 ?m dia dies and by electrohydrodynamic jetting, micro-threading and electrospinning of ceramics. We are now running a working thick-film combinatorial robot for ceramics. We will apply these techniques to biomedical applications such as tissue engineering and maxillofacial scaffold construction; to clean energy technologies including electrodes for biofuel cells, novel structures for high capacity and heat-management in hydrogen storage, photoelectrocatalysis, and THz energy-efficient metamaterials. These represent some of the priority research themes of our time, where the proposed platform programme in highly innovative areas of powder processing can make significant contributions.

Subjects by relevance
  1. Biomaterials
  2. Biotechnology
  3. Tissue engineering
  4. Research
  5. Energy
  6. Innovations
  7. Powders

Extracted key phrases
  1. Intercollegiate Platform
  2. Dry powder dispensing
  3. Based Synthesis
  4. Powder processing
  5. Fundamental research theme
  6. Multiscale material modelling technique
  7. Based Processing
  8. Priority research theme
  9. Powder ink
  10. Intercollegiate collaborative research platform
  11. Platform Grant
  12. Innovative processing technique
  13. Modelling
  14. Research strength
  15. Material structure

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