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

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Agenda
10:30 Introduction to CDE
Materials & Structures Science and
10:50
Technology Centre
11:05 Smart and multifunctional materials
11:25 Scope of the call
11:55 Materials Knowledge Transfer Network
12:05 CDE proposal guidance
12:15 Technical and general Q&A
12:45 LUNCH – booking of one-to-ones
14:00 One-to-one meetings
16:00 Event close

Centre for Defence Enterprise

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Prove the value of novel, high-risk,
high-potential-benefit research

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Proposals received

4137
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Proposals funded

17%
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Value of contracts funded

£36M
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The aim of CDE

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“National Security Through
Technology” White Paper
‘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’
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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

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CDE advantages

• Accessible
• Rapid assessment
• Benevolent IP arrangements
• 100% funding
• Easy contracting
• Quick paying

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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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Smart and Multifunctional
Materials
CDE Call, 21 Feb 2013
MASTSTC@dstl.gov.uk

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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


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


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)


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

• 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
• Improved operations
• Improved protection
• Sustain capability longer
• Future-proof defence capability

• 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


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.


MAST STC – core research themes
• Low Observable materials • Advanced materials & structures
– Microwave absorbers – Structural and protection
– Infrared to ultraviolet camouflage materials
– Vibro-acoustic materials • Metallics and ceramics
– Metamaterials • Polymers and composites
– Multifunctional materials
– Through Life Capability
Management (TLCM)
• Cross-cutting themes & in-theatre support
– Application to structures
– Manufacturing
– Computational materials science


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)


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


MAST STC innovation call 2013/14

http://www.science.mod.uk/events/event_detail.aspx?eventid=200
or
http://www.science.mod.uk/events/events_and_calls.aspx
Click on “current calls”

• Announcement and briefing day 21 Feb 2013 – today!
• Projects to be contracted in FY 2013/14

Definition of Smart / Multifunctional


'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.


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)


Lessons from nature

• Limited space

• Limited energy budgets

• Trade-off with behavioural demands

• Adequate performance for survival & propagation


Cuttlefish

Journal of Defence Science


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

Courtesy John Lewis, DSTO

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Example smart materials
Response
Stimulus Electrical Magnetic Optical Thermal Mechanical Chemical/ biochemical
▼
Electrical Ferroelectric Paramagnetic Electrochromic Thermoelectric Piezoelectric Electrophoretic
Diamagnetic Electroluminescent Electrocaloric Electrostrictive Micro-encapsulated
Magnetoelectric Electro-optic Electroactive polymers chemicals
Ferroelectric
Magnetic Magnetoresistance Paramagnetic Magneto-optic Magnetostrictive Magnetorheological fluids
Hall-effect Diamagnetic Magnetocaloric Magnetostrictive
Magnetoelectric Magnetic/Ferromagnetic
shape memory alloys
Optical Photovoltaic Magneto-optic Photochromic Photostrictive Photocatalytic
Photoluminescent/ Micro-encapsulated
fluorescent chemicals
Photorefractive
Thermal Thermoelectric Magnetocaloric Thermochromic Shape memory alloy (SMA) Micro-encapsulated
Thermocouple Thermoluminescent Shape memory polymer chemicals
Pyroelectric (SMP) Intumescent materials
Electrocaloric
Mechanical Piezoelectric Magnetostrictive/ Mechanochromic Pyrophoric Negative Poission’s ratio Micro-encapsulated
Electrostrictive piezomagnetic Triboluminescent response (auxetic materials) chemicals
Piezoresistive Photoelastic Thixotropic Pyrophoric response
Shear-thickening fluid/gel
Chemical/ Chemiresistor Chemochromic (eg Micro-encapsulated
biochemical sensors pH strips) chemicals
Chemoluminescent Super-hydrophobic ‘getters’
Antimicrobials


Example applications


Examples of Work Funded
Previously


Examples of MOD-funded
multifunctional materials projects

University of Bristol
Tilak Dias - University of Manchester
Adaptable structures (morphing)
Smart
multifunctional
textiles
Structurally-
integrated power-storage

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

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 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
Credit: University of Bristol


Evaluation of emergent actuator
technologies
• 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 Burden displacement
(backpack)
with batteries carried by dismounted
soldiers

Small proof-mass

• Rationale:
displacement

– Energy from body motion to extend Knee articulation

battery life and reduce the number of
spares carried by soldiers. Foot-fall

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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 Vibrational energy harvesting
replace or their use is prohibited) Credit: Perpentuum

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Scope of Call


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.


Potential interest areas
• Smart coatings
• Intelligent textiles
• Smart packaging
• Intelligent systems
• Adaptive morphing structures
• Advanced manufacturing
• Modelling
• Novel multifunctional materials


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


• 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


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


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:
MASTSTC@dstl.gov.uk


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?


Centre for Defence
Enterprise – Smart
Materials Call

Steve Morris
Technology Manager -
Smart Materials and
Emerging Technologies

Knowledge Transfer Networks
www.materialsktn.net Accelerating business innovation;
a Technology Strategy Board

Materials KTN

Vision:
To bring together the materials supply chain to improve
industrial innovation and global competitiveness of UK
business

.... helping the materials community to
make connections by providing a link
between industry, research and
investment.


Partnering Event

• 1st March 2013
• The Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining,
London

• Enable organisations to publicise their skills of relevance to
this call
• Enable organisations to solicit for partners to bid into the call
• Provide networking opportunities to help build consortia to
respond to the call


Partnering Event

• Elevator Pitches sessions are brief presentations
covering
• Name
• Company
• Technology
• What seeking - Partner, project idea, etc.

• Following each group of presentations, there will be
time for one to one discussion on the offerings.


Materials KTN

What we do:

• Technology and design support to the materials community

• Driving innovation and development

• Knowledge exchange

• Support for R&D funding and partnership brokerage

• Facilitating/Contributing to Government Strategy


Materials KTN
Our Network
Over 9000 individual members
from 5000 organisations

50% from Industry
20% from Academia
20% from the Design Community
10% Other inc. Government,
RTOs and Consultants


The Materials KTN

Pol ymers Energy

Composite Cri me
Meta ls Construction
s Preventi on

Material Application
s s
Technical Sma rt
Tra ns port Hea lth
Textil es Ma teri als

Na tura l Securi ty &
Cera mi cs Pa cka ging
Ma teri als Defence

Raw Materials Modelling and Characterisation and
Life Cycle Impact Sustainable Design
Sourcing Simulation NDT


Materials and Design and the UK
Economy

• Materials have an annual turnover around £200Bn
• Exports around £50Bn
• Imports around £60Bn

• Both Materials and Design are key to innovation
• 70% of new innovation is underpinned by materials
• More than 80% is differentiated by design

• UK has world-class reputation in materials knowledge and design


Get in touch

steve.morris@materialsktn.net


Submitting a Successful Proposal

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Know what is available
Read available
information

Including CDE
manuals

Especially Quick Start
Guide

Ministry of Defence

Developing a CDE proposal

Ministry of Defence

Value from technology

Innovative Future
concept capability

PoC Incremental development

Dstl is part of the
Ministry of Defence

Proposal health check


Contribution to future benefit

Health check

Based on a claim of future benefit
Contribution to realisation of future benefit
Logical programme of work
Evidential outcomes
Demonstration of progress towards goal


Government furnished X

Ministry of Defence

Deadline

Call closes:

17:00 hrs on
Friday 12 April 2013

Ministry of Defence

Call process queries

01235 438445
cde@dstl.gov.uk
www.science.mod.uk/enterprise


Call technical queries

MASTSTC@dstl.gov.uk

Ministry of Defence

Further information
www.science.mod.uk
Events and Calls > Current calls for proposals > Smart and
Multifunctional Materials

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Details on the call webpage
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