English University Receives Funding to Advance Aerospace Ceramic Coating
A materials expert at the University of Nottingham has secured over £2.1m to develop new coatings for aerospace that could cut jet plane emissions and help spacecraft venture further into our solar system.
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Dr. Tanvir Hussain
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A materials expert at the University of Nottingham (Nottingham, England) has secured over £2.1m to develop new coatings for use in aerospace that could cut jet plane CO2 emissions and help spacecraft built for humans venture further into our solar system.
Dr. Tanvir Hussain, of the university, has received the five-year fellowship — funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council — to find new modeling and processing techniques that will overhaul the design and manufacture of advanced ceramic materials for the next generation of air and space travel.
Dr. Hussain, from the Coatings and Surface Engineering Research group, explains, “Ceramics are an important group of materials and their processing into aerospace coatings and components requires specialist techniques. Current approaches for new materials discovery and production are wasteful, costly and energy inefficient.”
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced chemistry, Dr. Hussain will try to influence the molecular architecture of ceramic materials to tailor their properties and to make them more durable and sustainable.
The project aims to produce bespoke ceramic coatings designed and manufactured with thermal, electrical and environmental barrier properties that can be fine-tuned to their desired applications in aerospace.
This includes:
- thermal barrier coatings to protect superalloys from high temperatures
- environmental barrier coatings to protect ceramic composites from steam
- electrolytes for fuel cells and solar cells in auxiliary power generation for electric aircraft
- insulating coatings for electric motors for the electrification of aircrafts
- corrosion and wear-resistant coatings for various critical components in aero-engines
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