GLOBAL - Advanced Materials for Energy and Sustainable Manufacturing

这个为期12个月的项目将发展和扩大剑桥大学和班加罗尔大学在能源材料和可持续制造领域的研究合作。与该领域相关的许多挑战必须通过材料性能、材料的有效使用和有效加工方面的研究突破来解决。剑桥大学和班加罗尔大学在基础科学方面都有广泛的优势，而且都在研究如何提供适当的研究协调和组织，以便将早期的科学迅速转化为工程和制造业。因此，该项目的全球目标将是共同发展结构，使基本的“自下而上”的基础科学能够在整个机构范围内进行，并使两个机构之间能够进行新的协调研究。五个研究项目将建立在剑桥和班加罗尔（JNCASR和IISc）研究人员目前在能源和可持续制造材料领域的一对一联系的基础上。其中包括三个可以将现有研究关系带到新领域的地方，以及两个将建立新关系的地方。将探讨研究项目之间的联系。所有项目都将在英国和印度之间进行重要的研究人员交流，反之亦然。这些互动将通过两国的网络活动和讲习班得到加强和扩大。这五个项目涉及剑桥大学物理系、材料科学和工程系的研究人员，涵盖以下主题：(a)先进光电子材料开发，(b)纳米结构金属有机框架，(c)基于聚噻吩的光伏发电，(d)基于扫描电子显微镜（SEM）内的原位机械测试的轻质结构部件的优化，以及(e)战略金属的可持续材料加工。

This project of 12 months duration will develop and extend research collaboration between Cambridge and Bangalore in the areas of materials for energy and sustainable manufacturing. Many of the challenges associated with this field must be addressed through research breakthroughs in materials performance, in the efficient use of materials and in efficient processing. Both Cambridge and Bangalore have broad strengths in the underpinning basic science, and both are working out how to provide appropriate coordination and organisation of research to bring early-stage science rapidly through to engineering and to translation to manufacturing. The global objective, therefore, of this project will be to develop together structures that allow the essential 'bottom up' basic science to be placed within an institution-wide context, and to enable new coordinated research between the two institutions.Five research projects will be built off some of the current one-on-one links between researchers in Cambridge and in Bangalore (the JNCASR and the IISc) in the general area of materials for energy and sustainable manufacturing. These include three where existing research relationships can be taken to new areas, and two where new relationships will be established. Connections between research projects will be explored. All projects will have significant exchange of researchers from UK to India and vice versa at various career levels. These interactions will be strengthened and broadened through the networking events and workshops in both countries. The five projects involve researchers at the Departments of Physics, Materials Science and Engineering in Cambridge, and cover the following topics: (a) Advanced Optoelectronics Materials Development, (b) Nanostructured Metal-Organic Frameworks, (c) Polythiophene-based Photovoltaics, (d) The optimisation of lightweight structural parts, based on mechanical tests in-situ inside a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), and (e) Sustainable Materials Processing of Strategic Metals.