Intercollegiate Platform on Powder-Based Synthesis and Modelling

基于粉末的加工和建模是材料的基础研究主题，涵盖纳米技术、电子、能源和生物技术的应用。这项平台资助旨在进一步推进我们在粉末喷墨、电流体喷射、灯丝自由成形和干粉点胶等方面的创新加工技术，具有高通量发现材料的能力；并将这些技术应用于清洁能源的产生/储存和生物材料/结构。将继续开发和应用多尺度材料建模技术，以设计和开发此类应用的材料结构和系统。这个校际合作研究平台将整合QMUL和UCL在粉末加工和建模方面的研究优势，获得更多附加值。它还将提高我们在研究主题上的国际立场和认可度，并促进我们研究的战略变化，将其引导到能源、安全和生物材料的有形应用中，这些都是我们时代的一些紧迫挑战。具体地说，我们已经确定了通过超声波驱动和激光引导在固体自由成形中提高干粉分配的分辨率的方法，以及在丝状固体自由成形方法中通过&lt；50纳米直径模具挤压和通过电流体喷射、微穿线和陶瓷静电纺丝来提高干粉分配分辨率的方法。我们现在正在运行一台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应用，如组织工程和颌面部支架构建；应用于清洁能源技术，包括生物燃料电池的电极、大容量和储氢热管理的新结构、光电催化和太赫兹节能超材料。这些代表了我们时代的一些优先研究主题，在这些主题中，拟议的粉末加工高度创新领域的平台方案可以做出重大贡献。

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 nanometer 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.