NSCI0022: Advanced Materials for Real-World Applications and Exploitation 22/23

This module will provide a brief overview of various categories of advanced functional materials and emerging advanced devices for real-world applications in high-tech sectors. The course will start with an overview of different classes of advanced functional materials, including semiconductors, nanomaterilas, piezoelectric, metamaterials and thermoelectric with a particular focus on their implementation in real-world applications. The module will go on highlighting the key entrepreneurship concepts including value proposition, business model, team building, intellectual properties with a number of enterprise case studies illustrating commercial exploitation of advanced materials.