Metamaterials
Metamaterials are artificial composite materials, engineered to exhibit unique electromagnetic properties. Metamaterial devices are poised to grow to $10.7 billion globally by 2030 in 5G networks, autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, and more.
Metamaterial designs enable devices that achieve much higher performance and efficiency than conventional offerings. Metamaterials offer the potential for deployment for telecommunication antennas, electromagnetic sensors like radar and lidar, vibration damping, energy harvesting, and wireless charging.
Commercialising Metamaterials presents a significant and timely challenge. These materials are not easy to understand, require sizable resources to deliver useful products, require skills and expertise that are difficult to find and require the creation of novel supply chains. There is much fundamental R&D to be undertaken and this is leading to a chronic failure to translate extant research into timely products and services. UK has excellent academic research in this field but lacks industrial uptake from end-users.
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Current Metamaterials funding opportunities
Horizon Europe Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space
Opens: 22/12/2021 Closes: 16/11/2022
Horizon Europe has a wide variety of open calls for digital, industry and space, with over €150m total funding. Current open calls in cluster 4 relate to 2D materials, graphene, robotics and AI.
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UK-Israel Eureka Bilateral: Collaborative R&D
Opens: 20/06/2022 Closes: 19/09/2022
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is investing up to £2 million to fund collaborative research and development (CR&D) projects focused on industrial research with Israel.
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iX Challenge: Magnetic Measurements for a Fusion Power Plant
Opens: 08/08/2022 Closes: 09/09/2022
UKAEA is searching for innovators who have expertise in magnetic measurement systems that can operate in harsh environments in a fusion reactor, accelerating the development of a prototype fusion reactor plant and the UK’s transition to net zero.
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Developing a value proposition for Metamaterials Workshop
On 24th February 2022, KTN’s Commercialising Metamaterials Innovation Network is hosting an interactive workshop which will give metamaterials developers the opportunity to work on developing a robust approach to commercialising innovation.
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Developing a value proposition for Metamaterials Workshop
On 24th February 2022, KTN’s Commercialising Metamaterials Innovation Network is hosting an interactive workshop which will give metamaterials developers the opportunity to work on developing a robust approach to commercialising innovation.
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17/09/2021
Podcast series: Metamaterials in Design
Metamaterials in Design is a series of short podcast interviews, following KTN’s workshop in June 2021, which aim to provide a better understanding of the role design plays in developing metamaterials’ applications.
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10/09/2021
Save the Date for Materials Research Exchange (MRE) 2022: 3rd – 5th October 2022
KTN is delighted to announce that Materials Research Exchange will be back in 2022 at the Business Design Centre in London.
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Programmes related to Metamaterials
Metamaterials Landscape Map
Connecting the value chain of the UK Metamaterials community with industry, research expertise and business support to drive commercialisation.