Intercollegiate Platform on Powder-Based Synthesis and Modelling

粉末加工和建模是材料领域的一个基础研究主题，包括纳米技术、电子、能源和生物技术的应用。该平台赠款旨在进一步推进我们在粉末喷墨，电流体动力喷射，长丝自由成形和干粉点胶方面的创新加工技术，具有高通量的材料发现能力；并将这些技术应用于清洁能源的生产/储存和生物材料/结构。多尺度材料建模技术将继续发展，并应用于此类应用的材料结构和系统的设计和开发。这个校际合作研究平台将巩固QMUL和UCL在粉末加工和建模方面的研究优势，并带来更多的附加价值。它还将提高我们在研究主题方面的国际地位和认可度，并促进我们研究的战略变革，将其引导到能源、安全和生物材料等我们这个时代面临的一些紧迫挑战的切实应用中。具体来说，我们已经确定了通过超声驱动和激光引导在固体自由成形中提高干粉分配分辨率的方法，以及通过挤压<50 ？介质模具和电液动力喷射、微螺纹和静电纺丝制成的陶瓷。我们现在正在运行一个用于陶瓷的厚膜组合机器人。我们将把这些技术应用于生物医学领域，如组织工程和颌面支架的构建；清洁能源技术，包括用于生物燃料电池的电极、用于储氢的高容量和热管理的新型结构、光电催化和太赫兹节能超材料。这些代表了我们这个时代的一些优先研究主题，在高度创新的粉末加工领域提出的平台计划可以做出重大贡献。

Powder-Based Processing and Modelling is an enabling fundamental research theme in Materials, encompassing applications in nanotechnologies, electronics, energy and biotechnologies. This Platform Grant aims to further advance our innovative processing techniques in powder ink-jet, electrohydrodynamic jetting, filament freeforming, and dry-powder dispensing, with high-throughput capabilities for materials discovery; and apply such techniques to clean energy generation / storage and to biomaterials /structures. Multiscale materials modelling techniques will continue to be developed and applied for the design and development of materials structures and systems for such applications. This intercollegiate collaborative research platform will consolidate the integration of research strengths in powder processing and modelling from both QMUL and UCL for much added value. It will also enhance our international stance and recognition in the research theme, and facilitate strategic changes of our research, directing them into tangible applications towards energy, security, and biomaterials, some of the pressing challenges of our age. Specifically, we have identified ways of refining the resolution of dry powder dispensing in solid freeforming by ultrasonic actuation and laser guidance and in filamentary solid freeforming methods by extrusion through <50 ?m dia dies and by electrohydrodynamic jetting, micro-threading and electrospinning of ceramics. We are now running a working thick-film combinatorial robot for ceramics. We will apply these techniques to biomedical applications such as tissue engineering and maxillofacial scaffold construction; to clean energy technologies including electrodes for biofuel cells, novel structures for high capacity and heat-management in hydrogen storage, photoelectrocatalysis, and THz energy-efficient metamaterials. These represent some of the priority research themes of our time, where the proposed platform programme in highly innovative areas of powder processing can make significant contributions.