Engineering Fellowships for Growth - Morphogenesis Manufacturing: Smart Materials With Programmed Transformations

制造业的未来取决于机器人、传感器和高性能计算等领域的一系列技术突破。然而，对于事物的制造方式及其后续能力，没有什么比构成它们的组成材料有更大的影响了。该奖学金将推进基础工程科学，并展示“自下而上”的增材制造在生产先进超材料（自然界或工程中没有发现的材料）方面的潜力。为了实现这一目标，将通过创造性制造开发活跃的先进多功能材料，在复杂的3D架构中展示编程智能。这些新的装配模式，即作为“增长过程”的制造，将依赖于更智能的材料，而不是越来越复杂的机器。

The future of manufacturing depends on a number of technological breakthroughs in robotics, sensors and high-performance computing, to name a few. However, nothing will have a greater impact on how things are made, and their subsequent capability, than the constituent materials from which they are constructed. This Fellowship will advance the underpinning engineering science, and demonstrate the potential of 'bottom-up' additive manufacturing to produce advanced metamaterials (materials not found in nature or engineering). To achieve this outcome, active advanced multifunctional materials, exhibiting programmed intelligence in complex 3D architectures, will be developed through creative manufacture. These new modes of assembly, i.e. manufacturing as a 'growth process', will rely on smarter materials, not machines of increasing complexity.