Sponsored by Forge NanoFeb 17 2021
A pathway for ALD-enhanced materials to be quickly developed and transitioned from lab-scale to commercial production is available for almost any application, for the first time ever. Atomic-level surface engineering on porous materials and powders has not been viable at high throughputs, until now.
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A well-defined development pathway from R&D-scale (milligram to kilogram samples) to commercial-scale production (thousands of tons per year and beyond) is now facilitating the power of sub-nano surface coatings and bulk material property control.
Over the past sixty years, atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been employed to show surface property enhancement over hundreds of applications. Commercial ALD processes which rely on costly ultra-high purity precursors are available for wafer technologies in the semiconductor industry.
First SMEs secure funding through Weapons Sector Research Framework Advanced Material Development (AMD) has announced that it has secured its first contract under the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Weapons Sector Research Framework (WSRF), worth £125,000.
The WSRF is a five-year framework to develop and exploit technology to improve complex, conventional and novel weapons technologies. The framework looks to provide improved access for key partners, SMEs and academia to ground-breaking research funding through its innovative enterprise approach.
AMD is one of the first SMEs to benefit from the research framework which is managed by QinetiQ, and their key partners MBDA and Thales.
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