MetacMed: Acoustic and mechanical metamaterials for biomedical and energy harvesting applications

MetacMed旨在将声学和机械超材料（mm）的基础研究与健康和福祉问题联系起来。mm具有一些显著的特性，但是为了使它们正确地适用于目标应用，它们的设计必须仔细定制。这将通过汇集一系列监管专业知识和创建一个由10名博士候选人（RESs）组成的网络来实现，其中一些人将在该行业工作。该团队包括受益者和相关合作伙伴，如果他们分开工作，将无法在研究和创新方面取得计划中的进展。RESs将分别考虑利用mm改善人类健康的方法，例如，提高用于癌症诊断的生物医学超声成像的分辨率，设计更好的脊柱植入物，监测骨愈合，使用鞋垫帮助人类行走。另一个感兴趣的领域是开发可用于能量收集的mm，以更好地为医疗设备供电，并减少对传统电源的依赖。这些都是通过对mm本身的基础研究来支持的，为实现这些任务提供了背景。因此，在基础科学和应用方面，以及在mm制造和开发等领域的工业投入，已经仔细考虑了网络的平衡。与上述相关的是一系列强大的培训活动，其中将考虑声学和机械mm的基本特征及其应用，以及软技能培训，如写作，演讲，创业，性别平衡问题，压力管理。在各成员地点举行的环境评估系统定期会议将促进协作，并将通过精心挑选的借调来加强这种协作。建议建立了一个适当的管理系统，以有效地运行网络并适当地监测和支持博士学位的进展，确保RESs取得成功的成果。

MetacMed aims to link basic research on acoustic and mechanical metamaterials (MMs) to health and well-being issues. MMs have some remarkable properties, though to make them properly applicable to the targeted applications, their design must be carefully tailored. This will be achieved by bringing together a range of supervisory expertise and creating a network of 10 doctoral candidates (RESs), some of whom will work in the industry. The team includes beneficiaries and associated partners who, if working separately, would not be able to make the planned advances in research and innovation. RESs will each consider ways in which human health can be improved using MMs, e.g. improvement in the resolution of biomedical ultrasound imaging for e.g cancer diagnostics, the design of better spinal implants, monitoring of bone healing, the use of insoles to aid human walking. Another area of interest is to develop MMs that can be used for energy harvesting, to better power e.g. medical devices and reduce reliance on conventional power sources. These are all backed up by fundamental studies into the MMs themselves to provide the background to achieve these tasks. The balance of the network has thus been carefully considered in terms of basic science and applications, with input fromindustry in areas such as MMs fabrication and exploitation. Associated with the above is a strong set of training events, where the basic features of acoustic and mechanical MMs and their applications will be considered, together with soft-skills training such as writing, presenting, entrepreneurship, gender balance issues, stress management. Regular meetings of the RESs at various member locations will foster collaboration, and this will be reinforced by a carefully-selected set of secondments. A proper management system for both running the network effectively and properly monitoring and supporting PhD progression is built into the proposal, ensuring that successful outcomes are achieved by RESs.