Let NANO fly!

该CDFA的主要目标是进行高度推测性的研究，以使纳米技术为航空航天的未来做出贡献。纳米技术在航空航天应用方面具有巨大的潜力，例如，它可以为制造更轻、更符合空气动力学和更多燃料的飞机提供更坚固、更轻和更安全的材料。在航空航天工业采用纳米技术之前，有一些关键问题需要克服，比如：如何用数十亿或数万亿个纳米尺寸的部件制造出航空航天尺寸的部件，或者当纳米工程部件无法切割成适合电子显微镜的尺寸时，如何检查它？这些问题介于航空航天和纳米技术的传统学科边界之间。这些不同学科的关注点和要求各不相同。这个CDFA通过联合双方的学者和实业家来解决这个问题，以便实现纳米技术为航空航天提供的潜力。诺丁汉大学在航空航天和纳米科学领域的研究处于领先地位，这项CDFA提案跨越了这两个学科之间的界面。它汇集了跨越边界的学者和实业家来解决其中心主题：*制造大规模纳米工程组件：从分子水平到完整机身的大小。技术不仅需要生产大量的纳米材料，还需要确保结构在许多不同的尺度上是一致的，并且宏观尺度的特性与纳米尺度的前景相匹配。*纳米工程部件的无损检测，这是一个巨大的挑战，飞机要不断检查其适用性和安全性，不能检查的关键部件不能飞行。航空工业的拉动将来自于高价值、高性能的应用，纳米技术在这些应用中提供了最大的收益。这些应用程序必须是任务关键型的，可检查性对于它们的采用至关重要。*无处不在的传感：使用大量纳米传感器集成到组件和环境中。这些可用于检测，测量和报告性能，机械，化学和环境信息在服务。例如疲劳或损伤的存在（如微/纳米颗粒损伤）。这一概念为包括航空航天、食品、健康和安全在内的许多领域提供了革命性的潜力。我们将利用这笔资金开展一系列短期的概念验证项目和小额奖学金。这些项目的资金将通过内部同行评审程序进行竞争性分配，主要行业代表将参与其中。这些项目中最有前途的将有机会通过我们的商业计划竞赛进一步开展研究。我们得到了广泛的行业和纳米KTN的支持，他们将参加我们的活动，将各种学科和行业部门结合在一起。

The principle objective of this CDFA is to perform the highly speculative research needed to allow nanotechnology to contribute to the future of aerospace. Nanotechnology has huge potential for aerospace applications, for instance by providing stronger, lighter and safer materials for the construction of lighter, more aerodynamic and more fuel aircraft.There are key problems to be overcome before the aerospace industries can adopt nanotechnology such as: how to make an aerospace sized part out of billions or trillions of nano size components or how do you inspect a nanoengineered component when it can't be cut it up to fit it in an electron microscope? These problems fall somewhere between the traditional discipline boundaries of aerospace and nanotechnology. The concerns and demands of these different disciplines are vary different. This CDFA addresses this problem by uniting academicsand industrialist from both sides in order to realise the potential that nanotechnology offers aerospace.Nottingham is a research leader in the fields of aerospace and nanoscience and this CDFA proposal works across the interface between the two disciplines. It brings together academics and industrialist from across the boundaries to tackle its central themes:* Fabrication of large scale nanoengineered components: from the molecule level up to the size of a complete airframe. Techniques are needed to not only produce large volumes of nano materials but also to ensure the structure is coherent at many different scales and that the properties of the macroscale match the promise of the nanoscale.* Non destructive testing of nanoengineered components, this represents a huge challenge, aircraft are continually inspected for serviceability and safety, critical components that cannot be inspected can't be flown. The pull from the aero industry will come from the high-value, high-performance applications where nanotechnology offers the most gains. These applications are necessarily mission critical and inspectability is crucial to their adoption.* Ubiquitous sensing: using multitudes of nanosensors incorporated into components and the environment. These can be used for detecting, measuring and reporting performance, mechanical, chemical and environmental information in service. For instance the presence of fatigue or damage (such as micro / nano particulate damage). This concept offers revolutionary potential across many sectors including aerospace, food, health and security.We will use the funding to run a range of short proof of concept projects and micro-fellowships. The funding for these will be allocated competitively using an internal peer review process with involving key industry representatives. The most promising of these projects will have the opportunity to take the research further through our business plan competition. We have support from a wide range of industries and the Nano KTN who will participate in our events bringing the various academic disciplines and industry sector together.