Professor Ton Peijs was recently awarded over 400k Euro's from the EU
as part of a large NMP project entitled: IMS&CPS (Innovative Material
Synergies & Composite Processing Strategies). Starting after the
summer and over the next 3 years, a consortium of 16 industrial and
academic partners (incl. KU Leuven,IVW Kaiserslautern, INSA Lyon,
Cambridge and QMUL)has been awarded nearly 5 million Euro's to develop the next generation of advanced composites for the aircraft industry.
The consortium aims to combine carbon nanotubes with high-performance carbon fibres to create multifunctional materials with tailored localization and orientation at both the nano and micro-scales in the final composite part, together with innovative production processes,
which are capable of delivering high-end structural parts with
integrated damage sensing capability.