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Research areas of expertise

Find out more about the expertise of our research staff, and who are the right people to contact in each research area: 

Research areas of expertise by staff member

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Engineering for sustainability

Hydrogen and fuel cells, energy storage, carbon utilisation

Lithium ion batteries and supercapacitors, next generation batteries, electrochemical synthesis

Circular economy for plastic and composite materials (includes repair of composites)

Materials engineering for arts conservation: effect of environmental control

Materials optimisation and control for nuclear fission and fusion applications

Fundamental mechanics research

High strain rate and impact behaviour of polymers, composites and metallic alloys

Evolution of defect structures in crystalline materials

Fatigue and durability of polymers, composites, coatings and metals

Food mechanics and rheology

Improved performance of adhesives, joints, coatings, and interfaces in multi-phase composites

Structural integrity of composites (includes sandwich structures and foams, lightweight bonded structures), ceramics, polymers, coatings, metals and alloys

Manufacturing: optimisation and digitisation

Metal additive manufacturing

Ceramics processing

Food processing and links to physiology/nutrition

Metal forming and modelling (includes SmartForming)

Optimisation of welding, quenching, rolling of metals (includes digital twins and residual stress prediction)

Research in Mechanical Engineering

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