The project is directed at addressing challenges for developing next-generation high-entropy-alloy-based multi-component green (free of toxic substances) and sustainable (rare earth free & minimum critical metal elements) coatings with predictable functionalities, performance and life – aiming at increasing wear resistance by 100%, corrosion/oxidation resistance by 50~60 %, and effectively reducing the criticality of coating materials by at least 70%. To achieve these goals, the project is to integrate AI/ML underpinned, highly effective and highly efficient Computational Modelling that is guided by a novel Safe and Sustainability by Design Framework and facilitated by high-throughput characterisations and evaluations, to speed up the material-design to coating-product development process (reducing the development cycle-time by 400~500%), to enable optimal alloy/material design and coating process optimisation for high efficiency and high quality, at the same time, to reduce the overall product manufacturing cost (due to use of the new tooling developed) by 20%.

1 January 2024 – 31 December 2027