Materials Innovation Hub: Connecting Materials Culture to Materials Science

材料创新中心：将材料文化与材料科学联系起来

• 批准号: EP/I00159X/2
• 负责人: Mark Miodownik
• 金额: $ 37.03万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FI00159X%2F2
• 关键词: Materials; Innovation; Hub; Connecting; Culture

The development of the silicon chip fifty years ago was the materials science innovation that sparked the information technology revolution. Such new materials do more than transform technology, they change behaviour and shape the urban landscape, from our cities, to our hospitals, to our homes, to our art. Thus, materials are a defining characteristic of society: its history, culture and economic welfare. As a result materiality is one of the central themes of study in every university. However in contemporary universities the scientists involved in making new materials (physicists, chemists, materials scientists) very rarely get involved with those who study the cultural significance and impact of materials (humanities and social scientists), and are often further distanced from those who make things with materials (medics, engineers, architects, designers, artists). This has a serious detrimental effect on the research and teaching culture of universities, and their capacity to engage with the wider world, since many of the important issues of contemporary society, such as health, security, climate change and economic sustainability, require a multi-disciplinary approach. The aim of this research project is to build the Materials Innovation Hub within King's College London whose guiding principle will be that all materials innovation benefits from a system-wide multidisciplinary approach involving the arts, humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences. The Hub will be a focal point for developing our understanding of how materials, materiality and material culture affect the human realm, be it in the form of a new type of artificial limb, or a new form of human expression. It will be a place of wonder, play and ambitious ideas - a place to initiate innovation and culture change within the university and the UK.

五十年前硅芯片的发展是材料科学的创新，引发了信息技术革命。这些新材料不仅改变了技术，它们还改变了行为，塑造了城市景观，从我们的城市，到我们的医院，到我们的家，再到我们的艺术。因此，物质是社会的一个决定性特征：它的历史、文化和经济福利。因此，实质性是每所大学研究的中心主题之一。然而，在当代大学，参与制造新材料的科学家(物理学家、化学家、材料科学家)很少与那些研究材料的文化意义和影响的人(人文和社会科学家)打交道，而且往往与那些用材料制造东西的人(医务人员、工程师、建筑师、设计师、艺术家)保持更远的距离。这对大学的研究和教学文化及其与更广泛世界接触的能力产生了严重的不利影响，因为当代社会的许多重要问题，如健康、安全、气候变化和经济可持续性，都需要采取多学科的方法。该研究项目的目的是在伦敦国王学院内建立材料创新中心，其指导原则是所有材料创新都受益于涉及艺术、人文、社会科学、物理科学和健康科学的系统范围的多学科方法。中心将是发展我们对材料、物质和物质文化如何影响人类领域的理解的焦点，无论是以新型假肢的形式，还是以人类表达的新形式。它将是一个充满奇迹、游玩和雄心勃勃的想法的地方--一个在大学和英国内部发起创新和文化变革的地方。

项目成果

3D printing of asphalt and its effect on mechanical properties

• DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2018.09.030
• 发表时间: 2018-12
• 期刊: Materials & Design
• 影响因子: 8.4
• 作者: R. Jackson;A. Wojcik;M. Miodownik

Quantifying the correlation between spatially defined oxygen gradients and cell fate in an engineered three-dimensional culture model.

量化工程三维培养模型中空间定义的氧梯度与细胞命运之间的相关性。

• DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0501
• 发表时间: 2014-09-06
• 期刊: Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
• 作者: Ardakani AG;Cheema U;Brown RA;Shipley RJ
• 通讯作者: Shipley RJ

Materials for the 21st century: What will we dream up next?

• DOI: 10.1557/mrs.2015.267
• 发表时间: 2015-12
• 期刊: MRS Bulletin
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: M. Miodownik

The perception of materials through oral sensation.

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105035
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: PloS one
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Howes PD;Wongsriruksa S;Laughlin Z;Witchel HJ;Miodownik M
• 通讯作者: Miodownik M

Energy exchange in a dense urban environment - Part I: Temporal variability of long-term observations in central London

• DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2013.10.002
• 发表时间: 2014-12-01
• 期刊: URBAN CLIMATE
• 影响因子: 6.4
• 作者: Kotthaus, Simone;Grimmond, C. S. B.
• 通讯作者: Grimmond, C. S. B.