TEAM-A: The tailored electromagnetic and acoustic materials accelerator

这个为期五年的繁荣伙伴关系计划将建立并深化埃克塞特大学和QinetiQ之间的成功关系。我们将开发先进的材料，用于以高度定制的方式控制和操纵电磁和声能的传播，并开发创新技术，使其具有成本效益。能够完全控制和操纵电磁（如辐射热、光、无线电波）和声学（如声音、振动、冲击）能量流的材料有可能改变并实现各种各样的技术。埃克塞特和QinetiQ长期以来一直处于此类材料科学和工程的前沿，最近的例子是：修改风力涡轮机以减少其对气象和航空雷达系统的干扰，英国一半可行的风电场目前因这个原因而受阻，以及开发新的光电材料以实现超高清显示。然而，仍有重大的挑战，禁止这些新材料在应用中广泛采用。特别是，在实验室开发的概念往往与商业生产不相容，因为它们的复杂性和组成部分的性质。相反，描述这些新材料行为的基础科学需要与如何制造这些材料的详细理解相结合，这样新材料才能设计和工程，以使用商业上可行的方法来解决特定的技术挑战。此次合作的目标是将埃克塞特大学和QinetiQ公司领先的先进材料和制造研究结合起来，以解决真正的技术和创新挑战。通过人员交流、设施共享和重点培训新一代创业型研究人员，我们将跨越传统学科和机构界限，加快学术研究的影响。该计划的结果将是一种可持续的长期合作伙伴关系，其基础是通过产品创造或知识产权许可创造的收入。由此产生的研究和技术管道将支撑未来的创新，通过分拆和合资企业为英国创造更多的高科技就业机会和经济影响。

This five-year Prosperity Partnership programme will build upon and deepen the successful relationship that exists between the University of Exeter and QinetiQ. We will develop advanced materials that can be used to control and manipulate the propagation of electromagnetic and acoustic energy in a highly tailored, bespoke fashion, and develop innovative techniques for their cost-effective manufacture.Materials that have the ability to fully control and manipulate the flow of electromagnetic (e.g. radiated heat, light, radiowaves) and acoustic (e.g. sound, vibration, shock) energy have the potential to transform, and enable, a large and diverse range of technologies. Exeter and QinetiQ have long been at the forefront of the science and engineering of such materials, with recent examples being: the modification of wind turbines to reduce their interference with meteorological and aviation radar systems, where half of the viable wind-farm sites in the UK are currently blocked for this reason, and the development of new optoelectronic materials for the realisation of beyond ultra-high definition displays.However, there are still significant challenges prohibiting the widespread take up of these new materials in applications. In particular, concepts developed in the laboratory are often incompatible with commercial manufacture, due to their complexity and the nature of the constituent parts. Instead, the basic science that describes the behaviour of these new materials needs to be combined with a detailed understanding of how such materials could be manufactured, so that new materials can be designed and engineered to tackle specific technological challenges using commercially viable approaches. The objective of this Partnership is to bring together leading advanced materials and manufacturing research at Exeter and QinetiQ to address real technology and innovation challenges.Through the exchange of staff, the shared used of facilities and an emphasis on the training of a new generation of entrepreneurial researchers, we will work across conventional discipline and institutional boundaries to accelerate the impact of academic research. The outcome of the programme will be a sustainable, long term partnership, underpinned by revenue created through the creation of products, or the licensing of intellectual property. The resulting research and technology pipeline will underpin future innovation, leading to the creation of additional high tech UK jobs and economic impact through spin-outs and joint ventures.