RELIANCE: REaL-tIme characterization of ANisotropic Carbon-based tEchnological fibres, films and composites

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RELIANCE will develop and implement depth-resolved multimodal X-ray imaging and scattering tools that will enable the automatedreal-time characterization at the nano-scale of the structure and morphology of materials, devices and their manufacturing processes,reliably and with precision. Providing training in the use of these tools, as well as training in open-access science and development oftransferable skills for all ESR fellows is one of the key objectives of RELIANCE.The methodologies developed by RELIANCE will be implemented for optimizing and controlling the processing of high-performancepolymeric materials and composites, i.e. solution-spinning of aramid fibres, compaction-heat stretching of polyethylene film, andpultrusion of composites. RELIANCE will significantly improve quality control of a wide range of technological materials used incomposite materials. Through integration of real-time data analysis and process parameters by application of machine learning, themethods will lend themselves to Industry 4.0 solutions relying on cyber physical systems for decentralized decisions based on actual,current structural properties observed during processing.The real-time access to nanostructure in the diverse applications is provided by specialized X-ray instrumentation. A sharedmethodology for data reconstruction and machine-learning assisted analysis exploiting prior knowledge and modelling of structuralanisotropy, is applied to enable the data reduction speed required to match industrial processing.RELIANCE brings together a consortium of leading international experts in X-ray scattering, imaging and automatized analysis ofscattering data, 3D reconstruction algorithms and automatized analysis of imaging data and Materials Applications, with industrialleaders in manufacturing and application of high-performance polymer materials, and in highly specialized X-ray instrumentation andscientific data acquisition and analysis.