A photo of a introductory slide from a presentation for a NanoMECommons review meeting event 18 January 2024, Madrid

Harmonising materials modelling and characterisation

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Outcomes from two current EU-funded projects that Goldbeck Consulting are involved in — NanoMECommons and OntoTrans — have been presented and discussed with attendees as part of a joint NMBP-35 workshop in Madrid.

The NMBP-35 workshop, combined under the umbrella of the European Materials Characterisation Council (EMCC) and European Materials Modelling Council (EMMC), formed part of a broader, 3-day meeting that incorporated a general assembly and a project review meeting for NanoMECommons.

A photo of Pierluigi Del Nostro and Georgios Konstantopoulos sat hosting an event at the NanoMECommons review meeting 18 January 2024, Madrid.

There was significant interest from the community in improved data and knowledge management, harmonising materials modelling and characterisation.

With numerous projects, both old and new, actively using the characterisation data standard for materials, CHADA, and the template for the standardised description of materials modelling, MODA, we look forward to continued strong collaborations in the context of EMCC and EMMC.

Supported by the NanoMECommons project, we will work together to shape a new CEN Workshop Agreement for updating CHADA and MODA based on recent ontology developments.

 

Working Group consultation now open

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Goldbeck Consulting is involved in proposing a new working group within the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The proposed topic is “Harmonised terminologies and schemas for FAIR data in materials science and related domains”.

The proposal is currently under community review, and feedback and comments are encouraged. Detailed information about the group, including its objectives and work plan, is available here.

To read more and comment, visit the RDA’s case statement page. The review phase runs until 3 February 2024.

Abstracts invited for MSE Congress 2024

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The Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Congress 2024 will take place 24–26 September 2024 in Darmstadt, Germany and online. The scientific program features world-renowned experts and aspiring researchers alike.

The congress will cover numerous topics including biomaterials; characterisation; digital transformation; functional materials; surfaces and devices; circular materials; modelling and simulation; processing and synthesis; and structural materials.

Gerhard will be co-chairing a special symposium entitled “Digital materials: Experiments, simulation workflows, ontologies, and interoperability”.

Abstracts for talks are invited for submission by 31 January 2024.

 

 

Three priorities of data-driven development of advanced materials: Generate, Dcoument, Access and interrogate data and knowledge

Materials 2030 Roadmap draft published

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A wide range of stakeholders in Europe are elaborating a roadmap for “a strong European Materials ecosystem driving the green and digital transition”. We are pleased to have contributed together with EMMC to Part I – Advanced materials – from vision to mission and action and the cross-cutting challenges. In particular, the roadmap proposes future actions to accelerate digitalisation of materials and product innovation highlighting three priorities:
1) Generating new data and knowledge: Develop digital and innovative methodologies for generating materials data and knowledge, including modelling, characterisation, production and testing technologies
2) Documenting data and knowledge: Develop and disseminate a common (standardized) language (ontology) for data exchange and knowledge management
3) Accessing and interogating data and knowledge: Provide reliable and easy access to and interrogation of generated data/information/knowledge
for all stakeholders.

Goldbeck Consulting is involved in a range of projects supporting these actions, in particular in the areas of modelling, characterisation and ontologies.

Open Innovation Environments and their Importance in Materials Modelling and Materials Characterisation

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Together with partners from the European H2020 OYSTER Open Innovation Environment (OIE) project, we put together a White Paper with some historical context to the development of Open Innovation and make the case that OIE and similar platform technologies are key enablers of open innovation in complex research fields such as materials science. They provide possibilities for participating in a wider Innovation Network Ecosystem involving all stakeholders from citizen to corporation. Thanks to Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology for their contribution.

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Nominee for Standards + Innovation Project Award

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Together with partners in the OYSTER project, Goldbeck Consulting is involved in an effort to standardise terminology, classification and documentation of materials characterisation by means of a CEN Workshop Agreement. We are pleased to announce that this initiative has been nominated for a CEN Standards + Innovation Project Award 2020.

A standardised terminology will improve communication and interoperability in the entire area of materials characterisation and reduce the barrier to utilising advanced materials characterisation in industry. The standardisation developments will support efficient solutions for materials characterisation, enhance the communication, dissemination, storage, retrieval and mining of data about materials characterisation and contribute to efforts for materials digitalisation.

The effort is carried out in the context of the project OYSTER which makes use of recent advances in experiments and modelling of nano-scale contact mechanics to develop an Open Innovation Environment (OIE) that will boost dramatically the development of nano-patterned, nano-engineered or chemically modified devices with controlled surface free energy and adhesive properties. To achieve such goals, OYSTER has been developing novel formats for materials characterisation data (called “CHADA”), which will be combined with innovative ontologies and data management plans to attempt the establishment of unified standards for the digital representation of materials characterisation experiments.

The CEN Workshop Agreement also builds on a related CWA on Materials Modelling Terminology, Classification and Metadata, CWA 17284, which was led by Goldbeck Consulting.

 

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European Materials Characterisation Council: new challenges for advanced materials characterisation in Europe

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The European Materials Characterisation Council (EMCC) will discuss new challenges for advanced materials characterisation in Europe at a pre-conference workshop of Industrial Technologies 2018 on 29 October 2018 in Vienna.  Topics of the workshop include harmonised advanced characterisation in Europe, next generation materials characterisation; improved access for industry to advanced characterisation and materials informatics, ontology and data management (Presentation by Gerhard Goldbeck).

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Open characterisation and modelling environment

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Goldbeck Consulting is pleased to be a partner in the EU H2020 project OYSTER, supporting the development of an “Open characterisation and modelling environment to drive innovation in advanced nano-architectured and bio-inspired hard/soft interfaces”.  OYSTER brings together leading European laboratories and industrial partners to take existing nanoscale characterisation technologies towards widespread utilisation in process optimisation and model validation. OYSTER achieves this by sharing metadata in an Open Innovation Environment, where new paradigms of multi-scale contact mechanics are validated on selected application oriented reference materials through continuous interaction with the European Materials Characterisation Council (EMCC). Goldbeck Consulting supports in particular the development of metadata schema and taxonomies as well as standardisation of documentation, following the example of the successful CEN Workshop Agreement on materials modelling terminology, classification and metadata.