EPSRC Network Plus: Materials Innovation Programme Coordination
Supports United Kingdom materials innovators through networked collaboration and shared innovation roadmaps.
The EPSRC Materials Innovation Programme Coordination Network Pluses call funds the establishment of strategic research networks aligned to four themes of the National Materials Innovation Strategy (NMIS). Each successful Network Plus will bring together and coordinate new research communities to identify and develop emerging challenges in one of the four themes: materials for energy solutions; ma…
Research networking across one of four National Materials Innovation Strategy themes: materials for energy solutions, future healthcare, advanced surface technologies, or next-generation electronics, telecommunications and sensors.
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