MAGELIN4D

MAGNELIN4D is a multidisciplinary project aimed at developing new adaptive smart materials with magnetic actuation capabilities using Additive Manufacturing (AM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

MAGNELIN4D brings together a consortium of four academic partners and one SME to conduct applied research into materials formulation and functionalisation, the shaping of filled polymers, numerical modelling and process control using AI. MAGNELIN4D has four objectives:

1. Developing a biobased magnetic filament with a high lignin content
2. Proving its economic interest in an industrial environment
3. Building a neural network-based control interface to optimise 4D printing
4. Creating 3D structures with magnetic actuation capabilities

MAGNELIN4D's solutions will supply industrial sectors such as electronics, services, energy and healthcare. MAGNELIN4D will have a significant impact on additive manufacturing and its uses, involving end-users and moving through the industrialisation stage to produce a new range of adaptive materials and structures.

The main scientific spin-offs of the project are an understanding of the key parameters of 4D printing for composites with a high lignin content using advanced statistical learning (AL) methodology, a methodology for lignin functionalisation and up-scaling and a predictive numerical model of magneto-mechanical couplings. MAGNELIN4D also represents an opportunity for plant biomass to play a major role in industrial applications, and aims to offer a new outlet for the use of lignin in high value-added materials.

• Project coordination: Sofiane Guessasma, INRAE-BIA
• Partners:
  • GEPEA
  • ICAM OUEST
  • KIMYA
  • UCCS