In collaboration with Anna Croft PhD, SFHEA and her team at Loughborough University, PSDI is investigating the prediction of polymer properties, primarily within the scope of 3D printing and secondarily, through the scope of biocompatibility and bio-interactivity.
Loughborough University and PSDI
This project seeks to provide the 3D printing and wider polymer and materials communities with the following resources:
A Database
The project aims to develop a database schema and infrastructure to enable scalable storage and the successful sharing of material science data and methods, focusing on polymeric and amorphous materials.
This database will contain FAIR computational and experimental data on monomers, preparation steps, polymerisation, conditions for printing, printed outcomes (e.g. form), Physico-chemical properties.
A range of relevant materials properties will be identified to maximise both interim and future database utility. Tools will be assessed and integrated to ensure the embedding of open-source literature, data and methods.
This database will be further elevated by the team’s validation of specific simulation data and approaches, these simulations’ protocols will be well-recorded and documented.
Work-flows
The culmination of these activities will result in a combined database, designed and deployed to integrate work-flows, for experimental and calculated data, to assist with materials selection.
The project team will work with community partners to agree specific and adaptable targets and work-flows for different manufacturing domains, looking firstly at additive manufacture/polymers as a case study. Through interfacing with open-source code, the team will implement standardised, calculation-based workflows for new materials.