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Academics at Imperial College London have recently worked with scientists at 🇨🇳 institutions linked to 🇨🇳 armed forces and defense sector on research with potential military applications. Since 2023, academics at the world-leading British university have been named as co-authors on at least 5 studies with figures from organizations at the heart of 🇨🇳 military-industrial complex. Among the studies was a paper that listed a researcher at 🇨🇳 Shougang Research Institute of Technology as a co-author with Imperial academics. Shougang supplies steel to the 🇨🇳 military. The study examined the material limits of a class of advanced high-strength steel that has been proposed for use in civil and military applications. Another listed a senior lecturer at Imperial as a co-author in a paper about high-powered batteries with a researcher from 🇨🇳 Army Military Transportation University. Imperial said the lecturer reviewed the work but did not design or carry out the research. A third paper, published in June last year, examined how heat treatment could strengthen a common titanium alloy, Ti-6Al-4V, widely used in both military and civilian aerospace. The paper’s co-authors included a senior Imperial researcher and academics from Harbin Institute of Technology, one of the major 🇨🇳 national defense universities with close links to 🇨🇳 military and defense industry. A researcher from Beijing Xinghang Electromechanical Equipment Co Ltd, a 🇨🇳 defense company, was also listed as a contributor on the study. Another paper involving a major 🇨🇳 national defense university, Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi’an, examined “electromagnetic interference shielding” of a new type of carbon-fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite. CFRP composites are used in aerospace and military hardware. An Imperial academic is named as a co-author on the paper, credited with reviewing and editing it. The academic joined Imperial in 2022 from another UK university which was the institution “involved in this work”. A fifth paper, published last April, examined how thermoplastic fibre-metal laminate (FML) panels responded to blasts within a confined space. FML panels are used in military aircraft and armoured vehicles as well as in civilian contexts. The paper’s co-authors were an Imperial professor and researchers at 🇨🇳 Wuhan University of Technology, which boasts of its research contributions to “China’s national defense development”. Academics from other UK universities were also involved. One of the WUT researchers was Kong Xiangshao (孔祥韶), who has published 16 other papers with Imperial researchers since 2019, including a 2021 study that looked at protecting aircraft fuel tanks from penetration by “high-velocity projectiles”. Outside of his work with Imperial, Kong has published 9 papers that examine either warheads or protecting naval ships from explosions. The university boasts on its website that it is the UK’s “number one university collaborator” with China, publishing over 600 research papers with 🇨🇳 institutions each year. Imperial has partnerships with 🇨🇳 Huawei and major state-owned defense and aerospace group 🇨🇳 Aviation Industry Corporation of China. ft.com/content/73e5ef
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