Multi-functional skins incorporating carbon (MuSIC)

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)
Energy Efficiency(Transport)
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Other oil and gas)
Not Energy Related
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor C Bowen
Mechanical Engineering
University of Bath

Standard

EPSRC

01 July 2016

30 June 2017

12 months

£96,886

Materials processing

South West

Manufacturing : Manufacturing

Professor C Bowen, Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath

Dr A Nogaret, Physics, University of Bath

This project is a collaboration between Haydale Ltd, Thales and University of Bath. The aim of the project is to assess thefeasibility of employing graphene based polymer skins for sensing and deicing applications. The are major issuesassociated with deicing are in aircarft, at airports, transmission power lines, instrumentation, antenna masks, wind turbinesand the exploration of cold environments (e.g. oil and gas). Such a sensing surface can be integrated with thermally active(shape changing) structures to achieve structural deflection for combined thermal-mechanical de-icing. The opportunity tolimit the extent of ice build-up on structures has broad application opportunities and enable light weight structures with reduced material costs and fuel saving for mobile applications and improved performance for instrumentation

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