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At AMT and Materials Ireland our goal is to make Irish industry more competitive through innovation, research and access to technical experts.' Materials Ireland
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Materials Ireland - turning research into reality
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Who we are
Materials Ireland is the national coordinating programme for research and development in materials technologies and materials processing technologies. It gives Irish industry direct access to expertise in the third level sector through technology transfer and specific sectoral networks.
What we do
The goal of AMT and Materials Ireland is to ensure that the latest materials and manufacturing technologies are available to improve the competitiveness of Irish companies, to address their future needs and challenges so that they can compete in world markets.
There are three strands to our strategy to achieve this goal:
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�Development and progression of a strategic national research agenda for materials and manufacturing and the funding of research programmes
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�Technology transfer and technology management to Irish industry
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�Sectoral technology development to benefit Irish industry.
Research
The Commercialisation Fund is designed to assist third level researchers in accomplishing substantive applied research projects based on a foundation of confidence that the underlying technologies are sound and that there is a reasonable prospect of serving a worthwhile, identifiable market.
The research must not only be of high quality but have the potential to impact in terms of:
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�Commercial interest to existing industries in Ireland and are transferable by means of license or other practical arrangement, or
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�Address specific current or emerging opportunities or threats facing individual sectors of industry in Ireland, or
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�Have the potential to provide the basis of new business areas.
Partners
We currently fund research 57 projects and have research partners in the following institutions: UCD, TCD, UL, UCC, IT Sligo, IT Tallaght, NUI Maynooth, NUI Galway, Galway-Mayo IT, DCU, Teagasc, Cork IT, Dublin IT.
Summary
Our focus is on commercialising research. Full details on all our projects and activities are available on our new website - http://www.amt-mi.ie
New research projects funded in 2002
| Colleges | Research Programmes | Main targeted Industrial Sectors |
| NUI-G | Development of design software for small scale implanted metallic structures | Medical Device, Healthcare |
| TCD | Patient-specific analysis and monitoring of prosthetic implants using computational modelling | Medical Device, Healthcare |
| IT-Sligo, UCD | Sharpness of unserrated blades for biomaterials and bio-composites | Medical Device, Healthcare |
| UCD | Chiral catalysts by combinatorial chemistry | Chemical, Pharmaceutical |
| UCD | Recycled waste in highway design and construction | Construction Products |
| UCC | Applications & commercialisation of mesoporous molecular sieves | Chemical, Pharmaceutical |
| NUIM | Corrosion protection using conducting polymer films | Engineering, Chemical |
| NMRC | A high pressure liquid chromatograph microsystem module | Chemical, Pharmaceutical |
| NUIG, GMIT | Design and manufacturing of customised maxillo-facial prostheses | Medical Device, Healthcare |
| UL | Development of a novel acoustic analysis for routine, non-invasive, clinical evaluation of pathological voice | ICT, Healthcare |
| UL | A bi-directional breath flow sensor for interactive applications | Medical Device, Healthcare |
| UL | Development of high strength microwave sintered Zirconia for All-Ceramic dental restorations | Medical Device, Healthcare |
| TCD | Quantum nanodots for biomedical applications | Pharmaceutical and Biomedical |
| NMRC | Electrolesss Deposition for ICT | ICT |
Contact: Jim Lawler or Joe Healy at (01) 808 2418; http://www.amt-mi.ie