The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) has teamed up with the Materials KTN to launch a research brokering service.
The KTNs will offer an introduction service to link up technology developers with integrators and end users to facilitate industry-relevant research consortia involving nano-enhanced materials for transport.
The first funding call to be targeted is the Technology Strategy Board High Value Manufacturing Call which opens 19 January 2009 with expressions of interest required by 26 February 2009.
'Nanotechnology encompasses enabling technologies that can revolutionise materials and processes, but integrating these into end applications requires a networking and communication process which we aim to facilitate,' said Dr Martin Kemp of NanoKTN.
Several of the call themes may be relevant, such as high value products, resource efficient and sustainable processes (improving productivity or reducing material, energy and resource consumption in production processes), and condition diagnosis.
Faraday Advance, under the direction of Dr Colin Johnstone, is the transport node of the Materials KTN that focuses on materials in the transport industry, and by collaborating with the NanoKTN, the two networks hope to develop nano-enhanced materials projects to benefit the transportation sector.
