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Reference Number	EP/L015099/1
Title	EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Industrial Functional Coatings: COATED2
Status	Completed
Energy Categories	Renewable Energy Sources(Solar Energy, Photovoltaics) 30%; Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial) 20%; Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electric power conversion) 20%; Other Power and Storage Technologies(Energy storage) 30%;
Research Types	Training 100%
Science and Technology Fields	PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Chemistry) 25%; PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics) 25%; PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials) 25%; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 25%;
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation	Not Cross-cutting 100%
Principal Investigator	Dr JH Sullivan No email address given Engineering Swansea University
Award Type	Standard
Funding Source	EPSRC
Start Date	18 May 2015
End Date	31 March 2023
Duration	94 months
Total Grant Value	£2,695,470
Industrial Sectors	Chemicals; Energy; Manufacturing
Region	Wales
Programme	Manufacturing : Manufacturing
Investigators	Principal Investigator	Dr JH Sullivan , Engineering, Swansea University (99.999%)
	Other Investigator	Dr D Penney , Engineering, Swansea University (0.001%)
	Industrial Collaborator	Project Contact , Swansea University (0.000%) Project Contact , Sun Chemical, USA (0.000%) Project Contact , Becker Industrial Coatings Ltd (0.000%) Project Contact , SABMiller plc (0.000%) Project Contact , LUX-TSI (0.000%) Project Contact , EM Coatings (0.000%) Project Contact , SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre (0.000%) Project Contact , Tata Steel UK Limited (0.000%) Project Contact , DST Innovations Ltd (0.000%) Project Contact , BASF UK (0.000%) Project Contact , OE Innovation Ltd (0.000%) Project Contact , Mid Sweden University (0.000%) Project Contact , NSG Group (UK) (0.000%) Project Contact , NthDegree Technology, USA (0.000%) Project Contact , Royal Mint (The) (0.000%) Project Contact , Tata Group UK (0.000%)
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Objectives
Abstract	The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Industrial Functional Coatings: COATED2 will extend and enhance doctoral training provision provided by the current EPSRC CDT COATED. This new CDT will provide 40 EngD research engineers (REs) over 4 cohorts beginning in 2015 to provide critical support to the EPSRC/TSB funded SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) hosted by Swansea University. The main aim of SPECIFIC is to rapidly develop and up-scale functional coated materials on steel and glass that generate, store and release energy creating buildings as power stations. In the UK more than 4billion m2 of roofs and facades could be used to harvest solar energy. SPECIFIC's vision is to use such surfaces to generate up to one 1/3 of the UK's target renewable energy by the 2020s. This is based on using 20million m2 by 2020, less than 0.5% of the available area. Development of such coatings will lead to an enhancement of value in current manufacturers and the evolution of new industries generating wealth and jobs in the UK. This CDT will furnish these evolving industries with highly skilled graduates whilst providing leaders of industry to existing manufacturers and substrate producers. SPECIFIC supported by COATED REs has made rapid progress and a pilot production line has been established at the IKC opened by Vince Cable MP and Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones in 2012. The input of current REs into the IKC has led to 2 potential commercial products and 8 patents during the first 2 years of operation. The pilot line provides dedicated up-scaling capabilities to take technologies from lab to production in a matter of days or weeks rather than years. As such, these world-class facilities provide a dynamic environment for the development, up scaling and production of innovative functional coated products and the CDT therefore fulfills the EPSRC priority area of complex manufactured products. Not only this but the technical focus of products researched and up-scaled in the CDT will support other priority themes including solar, energy storage, functional materials and sustainable use of materials and thus provides a rapid route through Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) 1-6 for a number of critical future technologies. The COATED2 programme will continue to provide research and training in the area of functional coatings that will underpin the research and scale-up activities occurring at SPECIFIC. The brief of the CDT will be enhanced to support the new EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing (CIM) in Large Area Electronics of which the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating (WCPC) at Swansea University is a key partner. The WCPC activities are critical to both SPECIFIC and the CIM as the development of large scale printing process are key for the production of the functional coatings technologies developed at SPECIFIC. Thus, REs will directly support activities that will influence both large-scale EPSRC projects. Further enhancementwill come in the form of research aligned with Imperial College London (ICL) as a number of collaborative projects are active with ICL linked to Plastic Electronics and their CDT in this field through SPECIFIC and the WCPC. The strategic working partnership between Swansea and partner universities will be strengthened in 2013 by a 6.6million Welsh Government investment in a Solar Energy Futures Lab bringing leading ICL and Oxford University scientists to the IKC to support the science behind innovation for the full period of the COATED2 CDT. This will provide COATED2 REs with access to these scientists and benefit from the synergy of complementary projects supported through each University/CDT with cross fertilisation through the IKC. This activity of RE support for the IKC and CIM with cluster projects involving partner institutions provides a flourishing and vibrant research environment with world class facilities on hand to facilitate research and success.
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Added to Database	30/09/15