M2DESCO - Computational Multimode Modelling Enabled Design of Safe & Sustainable Multi-Component High-Entropy Coatings

该项目旨在解决开发具有可预测功能、性能和寿命的新一代高熵合金基多组分绿色(无有毒物质)和可持续(无稀土和最低关键金属元素)涂层的挑战-旨在将耐磨性提高100%，腐蚀/氧化。该项目旨在解决开发具有可预测功能、性能和寿命(硬度和耐磨性提高50%-100%，耐腐蚀性提高20%-40%)的新一代高熵合金基多组分绿色(无有毒物质)和可持续(无稀土和最低关键金属元素)涂层的挑战。以及热稳定性和抗氧化性提高30-60%)，并通过将AI/ML支持的计算建模与高通量特征和评估促进的设计框架的安全性和可持续性相结合，有效地减少了30-40%的CRM使用量。与传统的实验试验和误差方法相比，这些发展将带来更有效的方法和工具，以支持涂层材料和基材系统的共同设计、PVD工艺的优化，并将新涂层系统的整体开发周期缩短50%-100%，并将开发新涂层系统所需的材料节约和浪费减少至少4-5倍。M2DESCO的发展将有助于应对欧盟地区因腐蚀和磨损造成的损失，极大地提高欧盟模型界的全球形象和竞争优势，显著增强欧盟涂层研究和业务的竞争力，其市场规模将分别超过2020年欧洲196轧机和2026年4.21亿欧元的欧洲防腐涂料和耐磨硬质涂料市场规模，从而极大地惠及更广泛的制造链条，有效地提高欧盟产业的全球竞争力和韧性。

The project is directed at addressing challenges for developing next-generation high-entropy-alloy-based multi-component green (free of toxic substances) and sustainable (rare earth free & minimum critical metal elements) coatings with predictable functionalities, performance and life - aiming at increasing wear resistance by 100%, corrosion/oxidation reThe project is directed at addressing challenges for developing next generation high entropy alloy-based multi component green (free of toxic substances) and sustainable (rare earth free & minimum critical metal elements) coatings with predictable functionalities, performance and life (hardness & wear resistance increased by 50-100%, corrosion resistance increased by 20-40%, and thermal stability & oxidation resistance increased by 30-60%) and effectively reduced use of CRMs by 30-40% by integrating AI/ML underpinned Computational Modelling with Safe and Sustainability by Design framework facilitated by high-throughput characterisation & evaluation. These developments together will lead to a much efficient approach and tool to support the co-design of coating materials and substrate systems, optimisation of PVD processes, and reduced overall new coating system development cycle time by 50-100%, and material savings and waste reductions for developing the new coating systems by at least by 4-5 folds, comparing to traditional experimental trials and error approaches. The advancement of M2DESCO will contribute to combating the loss in EU region caused by corrosion and wear, excellently increase the global profile and competitive edge of EU modelling community and significantly strengthen the competitiveness of EU coating research and business withan European market size of €196 mill in 2020 and €421M in 2026 for anti-corrosion coatings and anti-wear hard coatings respectively thus greatly benefiting the wider manufacturing chain and effectively increasing the global competitiveness and the resilience of EU industry.