Research themes
The four themes are:
Soft Matter Manufacturing Research
Controlling and manipulating the hierarchical structure of polymers, gels and biological materials to develop versatile materials with different chemical, physical and biological properties.
Novel Digital Manufacturing Techniques
Our research focuses on using digital fabrication techniques to enable novel platform technologies that can be used in environmental sensing, biosensing, drug delivery and biomaterial design.
Manufacturing Device Platforms
Following on from the FP7 funded BiognostiX project, this work examines novel approaches to microfluidic and paper-based microfluidic device manufacture with an emphasis on biosensing and configuration at the point of manufacture.
Pathways to manufacturing
Identifying key ‘manufacturability’ challenges facing emerging technologies. Working closely with the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, we aim to develop a systematic process for early identification of manufacturing risk factors.