Smart and multifunctional micro- and nano-scale materials for defence and security - CDE themed call launch 21 Feb 2013

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11:05 Smart and multifunctional materials

11:25 Scope of the call

11:55 Materials Knowledge Transfer Network

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Centre for Defence Enterprise


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Prove the value of novel, high-risk,

high-potential-benefit research

Proposals received

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4137

Proposals funded

UNCLASSIFIED


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17%

Value of contracts funded

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£36M


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The aim of CDE .


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‘Building on the CDE success in providing efficient

access to innovation, we will broaden its remit to

cover both the defence and security domains.

As part of this, we will seek ways to provide more

support to small- and medium-sized

enterprises in the development of routes to

market for potential products and to enhance

communication mechanisms between CDE and

our suppliers’

“National Security Through .

Technology” White Paper .


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To enable delivery of cost-effective

capability advantage


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for Defence and Security


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Support to SMEs .


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Communicating requirements .


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Online submission .


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Assessment

CDE advantages

• Accessible

• Rapid assessment

• Benevolent IP arrangements

• 100% funding

• Easy contracting

• Quick paying

UNCLASSIFIED


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Two routes to funding


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Defence Open Call


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Enduring challenges


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Seeking the exceptional


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High risk – high benefit


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Enabling technologies


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CDE funds proof


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Micro generators


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Novel fibres for CBR protection


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CDE Marketplace


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CDE Marketplace

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CDE themed calls

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Strengthening maritime security Closes 25 Feb 2013 (at 1700)

Enablers for low SWaPC ISTAR Closes 15 Mar 2013 (at 1700)

Smart nano-scale materials/structures Webinar 14 Mar 2013 (at 1230)

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Countering terrorist networks Call briefing 19 Mar 2013

Webinar 26 Mar 2013

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Smart and Multifunctional

Materials

CDE Call, 21 Feb 2013

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Presentation contents

• Materials and Structures Science and Technology

Centre (MAST STC) and the Defence context

• What are smart materials?

• Examples of work funded previously in smart and

multifunctional materials

• Scope of call

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MAST STC and the Defence

Context

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MAST STC

Overview

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Materials and Structures Science

and Technology Centre (MAST

STC)

• Maintaining the UK Defence materials S&T

capability

• Tri-service programme

• Includes maintaining security of supply for

low observable (LO) materials research

• Key aspects – exploitation and

responsiveness


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MAST STC innovation activity

• Core research delivered and competed through

the MAST STC community

– Low Observable materials

– Advanced materials & structures

• Innovative programme is competed annually via

CDE

– Competition open to UK S&T community

– (MAST membership NOT required)

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The prosperity agenda:

A stronger future for advanced materials

• August 2012: Prime Minister’s seminar on advanced materials

– MOD CSA attended and briefed by Dstl

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• Big data

• Space

• Robotics & autonomous

systems

• Synthetic biology

• Regenerative medicine

• Agri-science

• Advanced materials

• Energy

• UK businesses turnover

£170B/pa producing and

processing materials

− 15% GDP

− £50B export value


MAST STC military drivers

• Materials for lighter weight and lower

cost military structures

• Materials with added functionality

• Materials for improved survivability

• Materials for reduced signatures

• Improved sustainability and

maintainability of materials in service

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• Improved operations

• Improved protection

• Sustain capability longer

• Future-proof defence capability


Military drivers

Additional information

• Defence research view

– See previous presentations

– MAST STC:

www.dstl.gov.uk/materialsandstructurestechnologycentre

– CDE: www.science.mod.uk/engagement/enterprise.aspx

• 10 year view – Defence Equipment Plan

• 20–30 year views - DCDC

– JCN 2/12: Future Land Operating Concept.

– JCN 3/12: Future Air and Space Operating Concept.

• DCDC global strategic trends programme:

global strategic trends out to 2040.

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MAST STC – core research themes

• Low Observable materials

– Microwave absorbers

– Infrared to ultraviolet camouflage

– Vibro-acoustic materials

– Metamaterials

• Cross-cutting themes

– Application to structures

– Manufacturing

– Computational materials science

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• Advanced materials & structures

– Structural and protection

materials

• Metallics and ceramics

• Polymers and composites

– Multifunctional materials

– Through Life Capability

Management (TLCM)

& in-theatre support


MAST STC innovation call 2011/12

• 2nd largest ever response to CDE call

– 104 proposals received

– 27 projects funded

– 22 projects with academia and SMEs

– 5 projects with Tier 1/2 companies

• Projects spanned:

– Low Observable materials (10 projects)

– Structural and protection materials (9 projects)

– Through Life Capability Management (8 projects)

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Highlights

• Several studies have generated interest among

MOD stakeholder community

– Currently exploring opportunities for next steps

(without commitment and prejudice)

– Some studies still ongoing

• Examples:

– Next-generation armour materials

– Residual fatigue life estimation

– Low-glint coatings

– Morphing structures

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MAST STC innovation call 2013/14

• Announcement and briefing day 21 Feb 2013 – today!

• Projects to be contracted in FY 2013/14

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http://www.science.mod.uk/events/event_detail.aspx?eventid=200

or

http://www.science.mod.uk/events/events_and_calls.aspx

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Definition of Smart / Multifunctional


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'Accepted' definition • A smart material is any material that can sense some

stimulus from its environment and react to it in a useful,

reliable, reproducible and usually reversible manner. A

really smart material will use its reaction to the external

stimulus to initiate or actuate an active response, e.g.

with an active control system.

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Scope for this call

• Smart:

– A material that can provide a useful response to a stimulus,

of a form that is different to the stimulus itself (eg mechanical

stimulus providing a colour change)

• Multifunctional:

– A material or structure combine one or more types of

functionality (eg structural + electrical, protective + sensing

etc)

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Lessons from nature

• Limited space

• Limited energy budgets

• Trade-off with behavioural demands

• Adequate performance for survival & propagation


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Cuttlefish

Journal of Defence Science


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Courtesy John Lewis, DSTO

Multifunctional materials

• Animals in dry environments

need to obtain water from

damp surfaces

• The desert dwelling thorny

devil (Moloch horridus) can take up water over the skin

surface to its mouth

• Moloch can extract water

from sand with 3% water

• Specialised skin structure are optimised for water

transport


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Example smart materials

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Response

Stimulus

▼

Electrical Magnetic Optical Thermal Mechanical Chemical/ biochemical

Electrical Ferroelectric Paramagnetic

Diamagnetic

Magnetoelectric

Electrochromic

Electroluminescent

Electro-optic

Ferroelectric

Thermoelectric

Electrocaloric

Piezoelectric

Electrostrictive

Electroactive polymers

Electrophoretic

Micro-encapsulated chemicals

Magnetic Magnetoresistance

Hall-effect

Magnetoelectric

Paramagnetic

Diamagnetic

Magneto-optic Magnetostrictive

Magnetocaloric

Magnetorheological fluids

Magnetostrictive

Magnetic/Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys

Optical Photovoltaic Magneto-optic Photochromic

Photoluminescent/

fluorescent

Photorefractive

Photostrictive Photocatalytic


Thermal Thermoelectric

Thermocouple

Pyroelectric

Electrocaloric

Magnetocaloric Thermochromic

Thermoluminescent

Shape memory alloy (SMA)

Shape memory polymer (SMP)


Intumescent materials

Mechanical Piezoelectric

Electrostrictive

Piezoresistive

Magnetostrictive/ piezomagnetic

Mechanochromic

Triboluminescent

Photoelastic

Pyrophoric response

Negative Poission’s ratio (auxetic materials)

Thixotropic

Shear-thickening fluid/gel


Pyrophoric response

Chemical/ biochemical

Chemiresistor sensors

Chemochromic (eg pH strips)

Chemoluminescent


Super-hydrophobic ‘getters’

Antimicrobials


Example applications

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Examples of Work Funded

Previously


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Examples of MOD-funded

multifunctional materials projects

Adaptable structures (morphing)

Smart

multifunctional

textiles Structurally-

integrated power-storage

Tilak Dias - University of Manchester

University of Bristol

Imperial College London

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Structural power

• Aim:

– To integrate electrical power

storage (ultracapacitor) into a

structural carbon fibre

composite

• Rationale:

– Reducing the overall mass of

an unmanned air vehicle by

combining functionality

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Credit: Imperial College


Morphing structures

• Aim:

– To replace conventional control

surfaces with internal systems

able to morph the leading or

trailing edge of a missile wing

• Rationale:

– Morphing the wing surface in this

way enables the missile to fly

straight and level, rather than at

an angle of attack; results in

increased range with no mass

penalty

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Credit: MCM ITP

jointly funded by MOD/DGA.


Self-healing materials

• Aim:

– To demonstrate the principle of self-

healing from microspheres or

vascular networks

• Rationale:

– Composite materials may suffer from

barely-visible impact damage (BVID),

reducing the mechanical

performance and lifetime of the

structure; self-healing may help

reduce the risk of failure due to BVID

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Credit: University of Bristol


Evaluation of emergent actuator

technologies

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• Aim:

– To evaluate the performance of single

crystal piezoelectrics and magnetic

shape memory alloys, and compare

these with traditional materials

• Rationale:

– Defence equipment uses many different types of actuator. New materials offer

the potential for reduced system mass

or volume, or could enable disruptive

technology due to a step-change in

performance. Credit: QinetiQ


Energy harvesting (1)

• Aim:

– To reduce weight burden associated

with batteries carried by dismounted soldiers

• Rationale:

– Energy from body motion to extend

battery life and reduce the number of

spares carried by soldiers. Foot-fall

Knee articulation

Small proof-mass displacement

Burden displacement (backpack)

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Energy harvesting (2)

• Aim:

– Eliminate requirement for batteries (or

replacement of) in discrete low power

applications (eg wireless sensors

networks for military platforms)

• Rationale:

– Solution harvests energy from ambient energy sources on military platforms to

power low power devices and perform

useful tasks

– Harvesting efficiency offers capability

enhancement over batteries (or operation where batteries are inconvenient to

replace or their use is prohibited)

Vibrational energy harvesting

Credit: Perpentuum

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Scope of Call


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MAST STC Innovation Call

2013

Smart and Multifunctional

Micro- and Nano-scale

Materials and Structures for

Defence and Security

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Driver for the call

• Smart and multifunctional materials, structures and

technologies represent a diverse and multidisciplinary

area which offers significant opportunities for the UK’s

security across both short and long term timescales

• Technical advancements in the ability to engineer

micro- and nano-materials and structures mean it is

becoming increasingly possible to model, design and

construct materials with unique properties

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Aims of the call

• To support and enhance MOD’s strategic awareness

of the importance of responsive (smart) materials,

coatings and structures.

• Indicate how these materials will deliver significant

improvements over current capabilities and:

– Enable enhanced performance and new functionality;

– Support platform availability and life extension;

– Future proof capability against evolving needs and threats.

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Potential interest areas

• Smart coatings

• Intelligent textiles

• Smart packaging

• Intelligent systems

• Adaptive morphing structures

• Advanced manufacturing

• Modelling

• Novel multifunctional materials

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Smart coatings

• New approaches to intelligent Health and Usage

Monitors (HUMs) enabling equipment, structures and

components to possess

– A much more intrinsic, even sentient, self-awareness.

• Alternatively, smart coatings could contribute to

signature control

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Intelligent textiles

• Recent developments in intelligent textiles promise to

produce a quantum leap in their functionality

– Fully encapsulate integrated functionality within the fibres of

textile yarns to provide a robust, inexpensive, flexible

platform for a host of enhanced capabilities

– A reduction in their cost of development

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Smart packaging

• The use of smart materials in packaging applications

offers opportunities for better understanding the

logistic supply chain and could provide essential

information required to understand the long-term

storage histories of military equipment

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Intelligent systems

• Intelligent systems offer future potential for defence

and security applications from embedding intelligent

sensing, information processing, communication and

other functionality within components and structures;

an example could include the ability to manage the

signature of a structure

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Adaptive morphing structures

• Adaptive (morphing) structures offer significant

benefit to a number of military platforms:

– Removal of conventional flight control surface

– Improvement in electromagnetic signature

– Increased endurance through the weight-savings

– Improved hydrodynamic efficiency

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Advanced manufacturing

• In the future, 3D printers will offer product developers

and manufacturers the ability to print parts and

assemblies made of several materials with different

mechanical and physical properties in a single build

process

– The interest here is not only in the bottom-up design and

fabrication of materials but whether emerging manufacturing

tools can be used to produce highly complex multifunctional

materials with new and unique capabilities

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Modelling

• Proposals that model the complex behaviour that

emerges from a new generation of engineered

materials with highly coupled multifunctional

properties is of interest in terms of predicting,

optimising and ultimately understanding the relevance

of these materials or systems in a defence and

security context

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What we are looking for (1)

• Potential areas of interest to defence and security

include (but are not limited to) those that:

– Support weight and cost reduction and aid reliability /

repairability

– Accurately detect or predict the in-service and in-situ property

changes of defence materials

– Smart structures, materials or coatings, for example flow

control, control-surface actuation or switchable adhesives

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What we are looking for (2)

– The development of self-diagnostic and self-healing systems,

or systems enabling low cost thermal and multispectral

signature control

– Energy harvesting elements if associated with an embedded

multifunctionality

– Advanced manufacturing techniques for producing novel

smart or multifunctional materials

– Novel multifunctional materials that offer a structural property

in addition to another functionality. While pure structural

power will not be considered, other combinations of storage

within a novel structural component may be

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Military capability

• It is important for potential suppliers to keep in mind

the wide range of defence platform types, structures,

equipment and devices. Platforms range from:

– Futuristic nano-unmanned vehicles

– Large ships, land vehicles and aircraft

– Tents or large deployable operating bases or headquarters

– Radios, weapons or clothing

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• Call is relevant to a broad spectrum of military

equipment and structures from those used on the

front line to those used to provide the logistic support

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What we are NOT looking for

• Proposals that do not provide an understanding of the defence

or security relevance, however futuristic

• State-of-the-art reviews

• Energy harvesting for medium to high power demands, such as

portable electronics (eg cell phone scale), soldier power

applications and larger scale platforms

• Established Health and Usage Monitors (HUMs) ie fibre Bragg

gratings for strain measurement

• Proposals associated with structural power. This subject matter

is already covered within the MAST STC core programme

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What we are NOT looking for

• Intelligent textiles where the predominant functionality is not

embedded into the textile

– eg achieved by packaging discrete devices into pockets or where

conducting yarns are woven into fabrics or where the proposal is

solely focused on delivering ICT backbone (infrastructure)

functionality

• Advanced manufacturing or modelling that is not focused on

smart or multifunctional materials

• Multifunctional materials that are not novel or are not integrated

into a novel design

If in doubt please use MAST inbox for clarification:

[email protected]

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Key features for successful

proposals • Internationally or nationally leading research

• Teaming: Academia/SMEs + Defence industry

• Communicate technical outcomes in a defence

context

– So what?

• Must have a clear Defence and Security application

– Exploitation plan

– Next steps and long-term vision/routemap


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Innovative studies Without commitment or prejudice:

• Short duration studies, less then 1 year, typically 6-9

months duration

• Typically £30k-£100k

– Seeking a larger number of lower value proposals within the

~£500k budget

• High-quality proof-of-principle/concepts studies

• Successful studies may be pulled through into the MAST

STC core programme in future, but no guarantee

– It is desirable that you scope out what further research may entail

– What is your vision for the next phase?

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Knowledge Transfer Networks

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Centre for Defence Enterprise – Smart Materials Call

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Partnering Event

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• Materials have an annual turnover around £200Bn

• Exports around £50Bn

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