New Industrial Systems: Manufacturing Immortality
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bristol
Department Name: Biochemistry
Abstract
The development of future real-world technologies will be dependent on our ability to understand and harness the underlying principles of living systems, and to direct communication between biological parts and man-made materials. Recent advances in DNA synthesis, sequencing and ultra-sensitive analytical techniques amongst others, have reignited interest in extending the repertoire of functional materials by interfacing them with components derived from biology, blurring the boundary between the living and non-living world. These bio-hybrid systems hold great promise for use in a range of application areas including, for example, the sensing of toxins or pollutants in our environment, diagnosing life-threatening ilnesses in humans and animals, or delivering drugs to specific locations within patients bodies to treat a range of diseases, e.g. cancer.
During this project we propose to develop innovative manufacturing methods to enable the reliable and scaleable production of evolvable bio-hybrid systems that possess the inherent ability to sense and repair damage, so-called 'immortal' products. This will ultimately lead to the development of products and devices that can continue to function without needing repair or replacement over the course of their life. For example, imagine a mobile phone that can self-repair its own screen after being dropped, or a circuit board in a laptop computer that can repair itself after being short-circuited. The outputs of this project have the potential to provide solutions to some of our greatest societal challenges and by doing so to reinvigorate the UK manufacturing industry by establishing it as a world leader in the production of self-healing systems. We propose to focus our efforts on three specific application areas. These are:
1. Electrochemical energy devices, e.g. fuel cells and batteries that are needed to power our everyday lives, from mobile phones to electric cars.
2. Consumer electronics, which underpin many of the core technologies that we encounter and use on a day-to-day basis, e.g. computers or televisions.
3. Safety critical systems that are used in the nuclear industry and deep sea technologies, e.g. deep sea cables that can withstand many years of use without needing to be replaced.
During this project we propose to develop innovative manufacturing methods to enable the reliable and scaleable production of evolvable bio-hybrid systems that possess the inherent ability to sense and repair damage, so-called 'immortal' products. This will ultimately lead to the development of products and devices that can continue to function without needing repair or replacement over the course of their life. For example, imagine a mobile phone that can self-repair its own screen after being dropped, or a circuit board in a laptop computer that can repair itself after being short-circuited. The outputs of this project have the potential to provide solutions to some of our greatest societal challenges and by doing so to reinvigorate the UK manufacturing industry by establishing it as a world leader in the production of self-healing systems. We propose to focus our efforts on three specific application areas. These are:
1. Electrochemical energy devices, e.g. fuel cells and batteries that are needed to power our everyday lives, from mobile phones to electric cars.
2. Consumer electronics, which underpin many of the core technologies that we encounter and use on a day-to-day basis, e.g. computers or televisions.
3. Safety critical systems that are used in the nuclear industry and deep sea technologies, e.g. deep sea cables that can withstand many years of use without needing to be replaced.
Planned Impact
The overarching goal of this project is to establish a bio-digitally enabled New Industrial System (NIS) that will allow the manufacture of 21st century bio-hybrid products with the inherent ability to evolve function and heal damage following insult or injury. We seek to exemplify the principle of material immortality, and demonstrate that it is manufacturable, and that there is a design aesthetic and business model which enables its implementation. Our hypothesis is that this NIS, which draws upon existing UK academic expertise, will represent an exemplar for future manufacturing systems and will position the UK as a global leader in manufacturing technologies, superseding existing methods which do not demonstrate circular economy principles.
We will exemplify our approach in three application areas where the potential for transformation is significant both in terms of economic value, but also in terms of providing employment in the UK and producing goods to export. As such, we believe considerable impact can be achieved. During this project we will work in close collaboration with industrial partners to ensure the challenges being addressed are of commercial relevance and that we realize the economic potential of our research. With its wide-range of interacting disciplines and industrial partners 'Manufacturing Immortality' will provide a platform for innovation far removed from a 'business-as-usual' model.
Our objectives to enhance and realize effective commercial impact are to:
- identify and protect any intellectual property arising from the research;
- identify and capitalize on any commercial opportunities arising from the research;
- work with our current industrial partners, or where necessary identify and approach new industrial partners, to establish productive research collaborations and deliver commercial impact. We will utilize the skills of our Advisory Board to give oversight to this process, and as a sounding board for our commercialization strategy and its delivery.
Our objectives to realize effective public impact are to:
- raise public awareness of our research and its potential benefits;
- address any public worries about inclusion of GMOs in consumer products or widely utilized technologies.
- receive training and instruction in facilitating public engagement and media training;
- publicize significant advances in our research through the broadcast, online social media and print media.
Our objectives to realize third sector impact are to:
- raise the profile of our research at partner Universities and beyond;
- establish and maintain strong links with Departments other than our own, largely though not exclusively through interactions with our collaborators and both local, national and international network activities;
- realize the impact of our research through interdisciplinary collaborations, high profile publications, patent applications, industrial links and political engagement.
Our objectives to realize training impact are to:
- recruit and nurture the most-promising early career researchers;
- provide PDRAs and allied PhD students with the highest quality training, and the experience of working in a multidisciplinary team at the cutting edge of scientific research;
- provide career guidance and support to all PDRAs and PhD students working on the project;
- provide a crossdisciplinary environment as an exemplar and training aide for this type of project within our institutions and our individual subject areas.
We will exemplify our approach in three application areas where the potential for transformation is significant both in terms of economic value, but also in terms of providing employment in the UK and producing goods to export. As such, we believe considerable impact can be achieved. During this project we will work in close collaboration with industrial partners to ensure the challenges being addressed are of commercial relevance and that we realize the economic potential of our research. With its wide-range of interacting disciplines and industrial partners 'Manufacturing Immortality' will provide a platform for innovation far removed from a 'business-as-usual' model.
Our objectives to enhance and realize effective commercial impact are to:
- identify and protect any intellectual property arising from the research;
- identify and capitalize on any commercial opportunities arising from the research;
- work with our current industrial partners, or where necessary identify and approach new industrial partners, to establish productive research collaborations and deliver commercial impact. We will utilize the skills of our Advisory Board to give oversight to this process, and as a sounding board for our commercialization strategy and its delivery.
Our objectives to realize effective public impact are to:
- raise public awareness of our research and its potential benefits;
- address any public worries about inclusion of GMOs in consumer products or widely utilized technologies.
- receive training and instruction in facilitating public engagement and media training;
- publicize significant advances in our research through the broadcast, online social media and print media.
Our objectives to realize third sector impact are to:
- raise the profile of our research at partner Universities and beyond;
- establish and maintain strong links with Departments other than our own, largely though not exclusively through interactions with our collaborators and both local, national and international network activities;
- realize the impact of our research through interdisciplinary collaborations, high profile publications, patent applications, industrial links and political engagement.
Our objectives to realize training impact are to:
- recruit and nurture the most-promising early career researchers;
- provide PDRAs and allied PhD students with the highest quality training, and the experience of working in a multidisciplinary team at the cutting edge of scientific research;
- provide career guidance and support to all PDRAs and PhD students working on the project;
- provide a crossdisciplinary environment as an exemplar and training aide for this type of project within our institutions and our individual subject areas.
Organisations
- University of Bristol (Lead Research Organisation)
- Qinetiq (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Siemens AG (Collaboration)
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation (Project Partner)
- Zentraxa Ltd (Project Partner)
- Overlander Batteries (Project Partner)
- National Nuclear Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Siemens plc (UK) (Project Partner)
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Systems (Project Partner)
- AFC Energy (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- The Data Lab (Project Partner)
- ITM Power (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- AkzoNobel (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Gupta G
(2022)
Antimony-modified soda-lime-silica glass: Towards low-cost radiation-resistant materials
in Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Haines-Gadd M
(2021)
Self-healing materials: A pathway to immortal products or a risk to circular economy systems?
in Journal of Cleaner Production
Haines-Gadd, M.
(2020)
Measuring the Value of Product Lifetime Extension
In-Na P
(2022)
Engineered living photosynthetic biocomposites for intensified biological carbon capture.
in Scientific reports
Maddock RMA
(2020)
Enzyme-catalysed polymer cross-linking: Biocatalytic tools for chemical biology, materials science and beyond.
in Biopolymers
Marucci L
(2020)
Computer-Aided Whole-Cell Design: Taking a Holistic Approach by Integrating Synthetic With Systems Biology.
in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology
Rautiyal P
(2021)
Gamma irradiation-induced defects in borosilicate glasses for high-level radioactive waste immobilisation
in Journal of Nuclear Materials
Rooms LD
(2020)
Unlocking the Therapeutic Potential of Antimicrobial Natural Products with Synthetic Biology
in International Biopharmaceutical Industry
Wang W
(2019)
Towards machine learning approaches for predicting the self-healing efficiency of materials
in Computational Materials Science
Title | Manufacturing Immortality Video |
Description | A short video introducing the Manufacturing Immortality project, researchers and key ideas and vision for the research. The video was submitted to the Disruptive Innovation Festival which is an annual on-line festival held throughout the month of November each year attracting over 30,000 viewers across more than 180 countries. It attracts a diverse audience from global manufacturers, SMEs, designers, entrepreneurs, academics and students. The video is also hosted on YouTube and has over 300 views to date. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | The video has raised awareness of the project and the ideas surrounding self-healing materials and products. The video was submitted to the Disruptive Innovation Festival which is an annual on-line festival held throughout the month of November each year attracting over 30,000 viewers across more than 180 countries. It attracts a diverse audience from global manufacturers, SMEs, designers, entrepreneurs, academics and students. The video is also hosted on YouTube and has over 300 views to date. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB5aRlztUfY&t=18s |
Description | Self-healing materials and devices are much sought after across a range of application areas. These include aerospace engineering, the automobile industry, and as embedded components within safety-critical systems. Intrinsic self-healing is commonplace in biology, and ranges from simple molecular level localized repair, to the complex reformation of polymeric tissues and organs. However, despite concerted research effort, the development of materials systems that mimic the ability of biology to autonomously perceive and repair damage remains a significant intellectual and technical challenge. To date the regenerative power of tissues and organs in biology has no analogue in synthetic systems. To date, during this project the team have: 1. Developed bio-digitally enabled approaches for the predictable and reproducible assembly of evolvable bio-hybrid products and devices that possess the inherent ability to self-heal. 2. Employ the methods developed in (1) to facilitate the assembly and testing of evolvable self-healing products and devices within three application areas: electrochemical energy devices, e.g. fuel cells and batteries; consumer electronics; and safety critical systems, e.g. nuclear and deep sea technologies. 3. Devised and implement new business models that account for the system wide savings that will be achieved as a result of the adoption of this new manufacturing technology; specifically, reductions in resource usage, recycling, repair, and remanufacturing costs. |
Exploitation Route | Industrial exploitation of our key findings is currently underway. Please see other sections of this report for further details. |
Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Chemicals Construction Creative Economy Education Electronics Environment Healthcare Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Security and Diplomacy |
URL | https://www.manufacturingimmortality.com |
Description | Although the outcomes of this project have not to date generated any major direct industrial or wider societal impact, a number of our findings/outputs have nucleated new and significant collaborative interactions with industry. Specifically, methods for the design and manufacture of new materials, which were established over the course of this project, are currently being deployed and tested by a number of industrial partners. This has already resulted in the award of significant industrial follow-on funding (direct and in-kind contributions) to further iterate the systems developed during this project. It is hoped that these technologies will gain industrial traction in the near future. These partnerships are predominantly, though not exclusively, in the Aerospace, Defence and Marine sectors, and in the Chemical Industry. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Chemicals,Construction,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Environment,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
Impact Types | Societal Economic |
Description | Advisor to the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology, National Engineering Biology Project. |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | EPSRC TFI Network+ Scientific Advisory Board Member (chemistry representative) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://tfinetworkplus.org/ |
Description | BrisEngBio: From Synthetic to Engineering Biology at Bristol |
Amount | £1,517,913 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/W013959/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 01/2024 |
Description | Connected Everything II: Accelerating Digital Manufacturing Research Collaboration and Innovation |
Amount | £1,415,659 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S036113/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2019 |
End | 08/2024 |
Description | Digital Circular Electrochemical Economy (DCEE) |
Amount | £964,620 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V042432/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 05/2024 |
Description | Hybrid material-synthetic biology approaches to design functional structures, EPSRC iCASE award with QinetiQ Ltd |
Amount | £116,928 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 20000138 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2020 |
End | 04/2023 |
Description | Material Social Futures - Towards a self-healing hydrogen-powered fuel-cell |
Amount | £1,550,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2020 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | Materials for Strategic advantage PhD programme 2018 |
Amount | £110,624 (GBP) |
Funding ID | DSTLX1000133108 |
Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | NNL fully-funded PhD scholarship scheme |
Amount | £70,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NNL/UA/097 |
Organisation | National Nuclear Laboratory |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2019 |
End | 08/2021 |
Description | Northumbria University PhD studentships |
Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Northumbria University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2021 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | Northumbria University PhD studentships 2018 |
Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Northumbria University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2018 |
End | 09/2021 |
Description | Realising Accountable Intelligent Systems (RAInS) |
Amount | £1,108,896 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R033846/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2019 |
End | 12/2021 |
Description | SMART Healthcare: Self-healing Materials for Advanced Repairable Technologies in Healthcare |
Amount | £160,965 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 75292 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 12/2022 |
Description | Stakeholder engagement within the built environment and offshore scenarios' |
Amount | £16,700 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Exeter |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 08/2021 |
Description | Standard scheme |
Amount | £776,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R032041/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2019 |
End | 01/2022 |
Description | SuPR Loofah (Sustainable Phosphorus Recovery) |
Amount | £445,577 (GBP) |
Organisation | Ofwat |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2022 |
End | 10/2023 |
Description | Transforming the Foundation Industries Research and Innovation Hub (TransFIRE) |
Amount | £4,836,821 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V054627/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2021 |
End | 06/2024 |
Description | UK-China Low Carbon Manufacturing |
Amount | £812,910 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S018190/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | UKRI Creative Circular Plastic |
Amount | £801,551 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S025200/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2019 |
End | 06/2020 |
Description | UKRI National Circular Economy Hub (CE-HUB) |
Amount | £147,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T030887/1 |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2020 |
End | 12/2020 |
Description | UKRI National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Hub |
Amount | £3,334,881 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T030887/1 |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 10/2024 |
Title | A Genetic Algorithm with Tree-structured Mutation for Hyperparameter Optimisation of Graph Neural Networks for Molecular Property Prediction |
Description | We proposed a method for optimising the hyperparameters of Graph Neural Networks for molecular property prediction. We used the Genetic Algorithm as the search strategy supported by a novel mutation method to improve the hyperparameter search efficiency. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This model has contributed to a more effective prediction of molecular properties, and it has achieved promising results on several benchmark datasets in MoleculeNet. |
URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9504717 |
Title | An on-line ensemble learning framework for self-healing efficiency prediction |
Description | we propose an OEL ( on-line ensemble learning) framework based on considering the SHE (self-healing efficiency) prediction error as feedback or reward. By analyzing this feedback, we can adjust the predictive models, or re-train the model based on both historical data and new experimental data, thus forming an on-line learning framework. More details about this model can be accessed from the following paper: Wenjun Wang, Nicolette G. Moreau, Yingfang Yuan, Paul R. Race, Wei Pang,Towards machine learning approaches for predicting the self-healing efficiency of materials, Computational Materials Science, Volume 168, 2019, Pages 180-187, ISSN 0927-0256, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927025619303283 |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The model has been used in the project to predict the SHE, and it has suggested effective new materials experiments. |
URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927025619303283 |
Description | Research collaboration with QinetiQ Ltd. |
Organisation | Qinetiq |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Provision of novel material prototypes for testing and assessment. |
Collaborator Contribution | Sample testing, know-how esp. with respect to industrial need. |
Impact | Collaborative joint iCASE studentship starting 2020 |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | siemens subsea |
Organisation | Siemens AG |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Self healing materials for sub sea applications. Understanding requirements for materials to improve reliability of products in harsh environment |
Collaborator Contribution | We are specifically exploring the use of self-healing rubbers in deepsea high voltage connector diaphragms. We have sought to produce example pieces to previous designs for performance evaluation in exsitu trials |
Impact | Siemens were to supply a example components from the testing for exhibitions. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Annual Ravenscroft Lecture - Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This highly prestigious annual invited Ravenscroft Lecture was delivered in London on 19/02/2020 to an audience of Glass Sellers and other Livery Company members, who represent a very wide cross section of the ancient trades and crafts, from many walks of life. The presentation was on the ubiquity of glass and the need to decarbonise the glass industry, with specific examples from the research carried out under the associated grants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Architects at Work - Online Exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Architects at work online exhibition. Collaboration with Material Driven to showcase materials developed from the project as part of an online materials library. Raised awareness of the project and resulted in new contacts / further interest |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.architect-at-work.co.uk/ |
Description | Attendance of the CE100 Industry event in Lisbon, Portugal |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Merryn Haines-Gadd attended the CE100 event to engage with over 200 industrial representatives about the project and research being undertaken. As a result several new collaborations were formed and professionals expressed an interest in finding out more / being involved in the project. It has been agreed that the MI team will host a more formal workshop at the next event in May 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | BBC Radio Bristol Interview, Paul Race |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Race was interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol about his self-healing materials research and the Manufacturing Immortality project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | BBC Radio Sheffield Interview |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview on self-healing materials, Howard Pressman's DriveTime Show, BBC Radio Sheffield, 11th January 2018, once grant offer letter was received and highlighting the work that the consortium would be undertaking and its' societal, economic and environmental significance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Blog on 'The Evolution of Self-Healing Materials' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A blog to engage the wider university community in the concept of self-healing resulting in raised awareness and enquiries about the research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exeter-expertise/blog/2020/10/13/the-evolution-of-self-healing-materials/ |
Description | Chemistry and Industry Magazine article, Paul Race |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Race was interviewed and profiled in the Chemistry and Industry Magazine. He discussed his self-healing materials work and the Manufacturing Immortality project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Ellen MacArthur Foundation CE 100 event Stockholm |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Carried out workshop session on self-healing with industry and government. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Ellen MacArthur Foundation CE100 event Barcelona |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presented the MI project to potential collaborators. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Engagement with Academic Colleagues at University of Sheffield |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Meetings and Workshops, with mutual lab visits and seminars, to engage in collaborative research with University of Sheffield colleagues and disseminate findings from the research relating back to previous grants, e.g. CarboGlass. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
Description | Follow up meeting with Siemens Subsea under NDA with Lancaster University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Discussion (within the limits of the NDA restrictions) how Manufacturing Immortality outputs could impact the materials used in subsea infrastructure to improve reliability |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Former Vice President Al Gore - Frontiers Forum - The Case for Climate Optimism - September 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I attended the Frontiers Forum on 29 September 2021 at which the Keynote Speaker was Former Vice President Al Gore, discussing Climate Change. From over 5000 attendees I was selected to be on the Q&A Panel and was one of only two members who had the opportunity to ask questions of Former Vice President Al Gore. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEpWTIZbODg&t=12s |
Description | Frontiers in Glass Forum - Invited Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited Presentation at the Frontiers in Glass II Forum, 30th June 2021, organised by University of Bristol. I gave an Invited Presentation, sparked discussions and questions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Getting In the loop Podcast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interviewed about the MI project and self-healing materials for Podcast in the loop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://intheloopgame.com/podcasts/ |
Description | Hayfield Cross Primary School Visit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Dr Fiona Charnley ran a workshop at Hayfield Cross Primary School as part of 'Engineering Week' to 60 children aged between 6 and 7. The purpose of the workshop was to raise awareness of Design and Engineering to school children. The concept of self-healing products sparked many questions and discussion amongst the children and the school reported an increase in interest and related subject areas and the number of children wishing to go into engineering focused careers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.hayfieldcross.org.uk/index.php/news-pages/blog/465-engineering-week |
Description | Interview BBC Radio 4, The Today Programme, Paul Race |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Race was interviewed on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. The interview focused on the Manufacturing Immortality project and self-healing materials more generally. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited Presentation to GlassTrend |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I gave and Invited Presentation to GlassTrend and its members |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Invited conference presentation - Applied Biocatalysis Summit 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited international conference presentation, 3rd -4th November 2021. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://applied-biocatalysis-summit.com/ |
Description | Loughborough University Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Merryn Haines-Gadd presented a lecture to students at Loughborough Univeristy on her research activities which included discussing our activities on the self-healing materials. The lecture resulted in questions and discussion around self-healing materials. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Manufacturing Immortality Cranfield Blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Merryn Haines-Gadd published a Blog detailing her involvement in the Manufacturing Immortality project and the research she is leading. The Blog raised awareness about the project and the research being conducted and resulted in enquiries about the project from colleagues and students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://blogs.cranfield.ac.uk/design/designing-immortal-products-at-c4d |
Description | Materials for Strategic Advantage Conference 2018, conference talk by Paul Race |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Race delivered a conference talk at the 2018 MSA conference in Watford. The work covered progress on the Manufacturing Immortality project but also included an overview of a recently funded DSTL PhD studentship in self-healing materials. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | MoD Defence Material Forum Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research talk on the MI project and self-healing materials |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | PA Consulting Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Merryn Haines-Gadd was invited to join an expert panel on Circular Value and discussed the project and research with an audience of 50 business and industrial professionals. This resulted in increasing awareness about the project, initiated follow-on discussion and enquiries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Poster presentation - 9th Chemical Nanoscience Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | University of Newcastle- 9th Chemical Nanoscience Symposium |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Poster presentation - NEPIC Technology Showcase Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | University of Teesside- NEPIC Technology Showcase Event |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Poster presentation - Organic Division Regional Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | University of York- Royal Society of Chemistry NE Organic Division Regional Meeting 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Poster presentation at 'Nature Inspires Creativity Enginerring' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster presented at the 'Nature Inspires Creativity Engineering' in Nice, France. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation on funded collaboration between academic and industry across disciplines at ISCF Transforming Foundation Industries Network+ launch event (15Feb2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Over 150 delegates from a range of companies listened to a range of talks on the six foundation industry themes as part of the launch event for the ISCF Transforming Foundation Industries Network+. I presented "Chemical Research and Innovation across Boundaries" highlighting how industry can interact with academia to research together, as the presenter representing the bulk chemical sector. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation to NEPIC (the North East Process Industries Cluster) members at the NEPIC Talent & Technology Showcase Event at Teesside University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A PhD student working on this project presented a short PowerPoint describing the project to an audience of industry representatives and other PhD students, PDRAs and academics. At the poster session linked with this presentation, a selection of attendees came and asked questions about the content of the talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2019 |
URL | https://www.nepic.co.uk/event/nepic-university-technology-showcase-event/ |
Description | Presentation to composite industry representatives at the Materials for Composites Collaboration Event (InnovateUK) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presented a 10 minute PowerPointed talk on the aims and early findings of the Manufacturing Immortality project at the "Materials for Composites Collaboration Event" run by InnovateUK at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://ktn-uk.co.uk/events/materials-for-composites-collaboration-event |
Description | Product Lifetimes and The Environment (PLATE) conference in Berlin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented self-healing materials research paper entitled 'Self-healing materials in a Circular Economy' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Public lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This inaugural public lecture was delivered on the broad topic of glass, but with key aspects including the environment and these projects and their research outcomes and objectives, fed-into the lecture, with exemplars from it, to engage the public with the need for the glass industry to decarbonise and develop new methods and materials. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Public lecture "Connections with Chemistry" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Public lecture |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Public lecture to IOM3 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A ZOOM presentation on my research to IOM3 members, attended by 30-40 members of the IOM3 and sparked some good discussions and good questions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Research Seminar at DSTL, Paul Race |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Race gave a DSTL science seminar focused on self-healing materials. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Research seminar at QinetiQ Ltd. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | 45 min Resrach seminar focused on MI and self-healing materials |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Richard Dawson talk a Lancaster University Materials science institute in May 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presenting research in electrochemical engineering including the Manufacturing Immortality project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Roundtable Discussion 'self-healing materials: fact or fantasy?' at the ISPIM Conference June 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A roundatble discussion introducing academics and industrial practitioners to the concept of self-healing materials. This resulted in raising awareness of the field and the research project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.ispim-innovation.com/ |
Description | SMEA Lecture, February 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This invited SMEA (Sheffield Metallurgical and Engineering Association) Lecture was delivered online on 15/02/2020 to an audience of practitioners, industry and academia, students, interested public and others. The presentation was on the ubiquity of glass and the need to decarbonise the glass industry, with specific examples from the research carried out under the associated grants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Self-healing Polymers 2018, Conference talk by Paul Race |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Race delivered a lecture at 'the Self-healing Polymers 2018' conference summarising recent progress in the Manufacturing Immortality project with a specific focus on bio-inspired self-healing polymer systems. The talk was well received and resulted in a number of new industrial and academic collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | U3AS&T Lecture, 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This invited U3A S&T Lecture was delivered online on 08/02/2021 to an audience of retired academics and the general public members, who represent public and professionals from many walks of life. The presentation was on the ubiquity of glass and the need to decarbonise the glass industry, with specific examples from the research carried out under the associated grants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | UK/China Sheffield/Jiangxi Province Delegation Bilateral Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A delegation of officials, Governmental representatives and leading academics from Jiangxi Province, China, visited Sheffield Hallam University to attend an event hosted and organised by Paul Bingham (Co-I) and Tzu-Yu Chen (PDRA) to foster new collaborations across multiple themes. A key theme discussed was self-healing materials and extreme environments, and the Chinese delegation has since reported increased interest in collaborations with SHU in these key thematic areas. Currently one research collaboration is soon to begin, and Universities from Jiangxi are discussing arrangements for joint degrees in Materials, with exchange of undergraduate students. These are directly linked with the visit. Further engagements, researcher exchanges and collaborations are expected in future. Most significant outcome - Plans made for future related activity |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | UK/US Synthetic Biology Showcase Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 45 minute research presentation on the MI project and self-healing materials |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Volans round table discussion |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Volans round table discussion - talked and presented about self-healing materials to an industry round table discussion and the future of the industry and the material. industry, policy, people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Workshop with Overlander batteries |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Initial project discussion with Overlander to identify foci for future collaborative research activity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Workshop with Siemens Subsea at Lancaster University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Discussion with Siemens Subsea at Lancaster University about their engagement in the project and developing the future aims of amongst others, the electronic engineering aspects of the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Year 1, industrial engagement, Industry needs scoping and progress dissemination meeting. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The consortium presented the Immortal Manufacturing project and the results to date and a call to action for industry to engage. Industrial partners presented their organisation and key areas of their business that could benefit from self-healing. The review meeting discussed the focus and direction of the project and follow on engagement activity and arrangements for IP protection. The meeting identified key industrial challenges, wish list or applications in demanding environment that could be the beneficiaries for immortal manufacturing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | poster presentation - NE Postgraduate Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Civic Centre, Newcastle- NE Postgraduate Conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |