TEAM-A: The tailored electromagnetic and acoustic materials accelerator

这项为期五年的繁荣伙伴计划将在埃克塞特大学和QinetiQ之间现有的成功关系的基础上发展和深化。我们将开发能够以高度量身定制的方式控制和操纵电磁和声波能量传播的先进材料，并为具有成本效益的制造开发创新技术。能够完全控制和操纵电磁(例如辐射热、光、无线电波)和声波(例如声音、振动、冲击)能量流动的材料具有转变和实现广泛多样技术的潜力。埃克塞特和QinetiQ长期以来一直站在这类材料的科学和工程领域的前沿，最近的例子是：改造风力涡轮机以减少它们对气象和航空雷达系统的干扰，目前英国一半可行的风力发电场因此而被封锁，以及为实现Beyond超高清晰度显示而开发新的光电材料。然而，仍有重大挑战阻碍这些新材料在应用中的广泛应用。特别是，由于其复杂性和组成部分的性质，在实验室开发的概念往往与商业生产不相容。相反，描述这些新材料行为的基础科学需要结合对如何制造这些材料的详细了解，以便能够设计和设计新材料，以使用商业上可行的方法来应对特定的技术挑战。这一合作伙伴关系的目标是将埃克塞特和QinetiQ领先的先进材料和制造研究汇聚在一起，以应对真正的技术和创新挑战。通过交换员工、共享设施和重视新一代创业研究人员的培训，我们将跨越传统学科和机构边界，加快学术研究的影响。该方案的成果将是一种可持续的长期伙伴关系，其基础是通过创造产品或知识产权许可创造的收入。由此产生的研究和技术管道将支撑未来的创新，导致通过剥离和合资企业在英国创造更多高科技就业机会和经济影响。

This five-year Prosperity Partnership programme will build upon and deepen the successful relationship that exists between the University of Exeter and QinetiQ. We will develop advanced materials that can be used to control and manipulate the propagation of electromagnetic and acoustic energy in a highly tailored, bespoke fashion, and develop innovative techniques for their cost-effective manufacture.Materials that have the ability to fully control and manipulate the flow of electromagnetic (e.g. radiated heat, light, radiowaves) and acoustic (e.g. sound, vibration, shock) energy have the potential to transform, and enable, a large and diverse range of technologies. Exeter and QinetiQ have long been at the forefront of the science and engineering of such materials, with recent examples being: the modification of wind turbines to reduce their interference with meteorological and aviation radar systems, where half of the viable wind-farm sites in the UK are currently blocked for this reason, and the development of new optoelectronic materials for the realisation of beyond ultra-high definition displays.However, there are still significant challenges prohibiting the widespread take up of these new materials in applications. In particular, concepts developed in the laboratory are often incompatible with commercial manufacture, due to their complexity and the nature of the constituent parts. Instead, the basic science that describes the behaviour of these new materials needs to be combined with a detailed understanding of how such materials could be manufactured, so that new materials can be designed and engineered to tackle specific technological challenges using commercially viable approaches. The objective of this Partnership is to bring together leading advanced materials and manufacturing research at Exeter and QinetiQ to address real technology and innovation challenges.Through the exchange of staff, the shared used of facilities and an emphasis on the training of a new generation of entrepreneurial researchers, we will work across conventional discipline and institutional boundaries to accelerate the impact of academic research. The outcome of the programme will be a sustainable, long term partnership, underpinned by revenue created through the creation of products, or the licensing of intellectual property. The resulting research and technology pipeline will underpin future innovation, leading to the creation of additional high tech UK jobs and economic impact through spin-outs and joint ventures.