COMPUTATIONAL MULTI-MODELS ENABLED DESIGN OF SAFE & SUSTAINABLE MULTI-COMPONENT HIGH-ENTROPY COATINGS – M2DESCO

Project 101138397 — M2DESCO
Topic: HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-23

Announcement

On 2^nd July 2024, at IMNR in Council Room, will take place:
Internal training: Computational Multi-Models Enabled Design of Safe & Sustainable Multi Component High-Entropy Coatings (M2DESCO). Grant Agreement 101138397

Programme:
• Safe and Sustainable by Design principles and methodologies (IRES
• PVD technology, fundamentals, types and applications (AIN, PVT)
• Target technologies (TBD, invited Planse GmbH)

The project is directed at addressing challenges for developing next-generation high-entropy-alloy-based multicomponent green (free of toxic substances) and sustainable (rare earth free & minimum critical metal elements) coatings with predictable functionalities, performance and life, aiming at increasing wear resistance by 50-100%, corrosion resistance increased by 20-40% and thermal stability & oxidation resistance increased by 30-60%) and effectively reduced use of CRMs by 30-40% by integrating AI/ML underpinned Computational Modelling with Safe and
Sustainability by Design framework facilitated by high-throughput characterisation & evaluation. These developments together will lead to a much efficient approach and tool to support the co-design of coating materials and substrate systems, optimisation of PVD processes, and reduced overall new coating system development cycle time by 50-100%, and material savings and waste reductions for developing the new coating systems by at least by 4-5 folds, comparing to traditional experimental trials and error approaches.