Schedule
15.30 Registration and refreshments
16.00 Welcome
16.15 New manufacturing research programmes including:
– Sustainable chemical feedstocks
– Innovative production processes
– Scaling up synthetic biology
– Graphene engineering
– Manufacturing large area electronics
17.15 Advanced manufacturing: research needs
Professor John Perkins, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, delivers the keynote speech at the launch
18.00 Drinks reception
About the Manufacturing Futures Lab
The Manufacturing Futures Lab at Imperial provides a focus for the fundamental science and engineering research that will form the basis of tomorrow’s manufacturing industries. The Lab provides a forum for leading academic researchers collectively to develop a strategy and to collaborate with industrialists with interests in science-based manufacturing industries.
Research topics range from the bio-based economy and synthetic biology, through low temperature and solution processed electronics to sustainable chemistry and therapeutic products manufacture. Product design based around new materials and advanced computing technologies that underpin manufacture are also active research areas.
The Lab is highly multidisciplinary and involves researchers from the fields of chemistry, physics, materials engineering, composites, membrane technologies, control engineering, bioengineering, process systems engineering, synthetic biology, microelectronics design and management.