We are engaged in internationally leading materials processing and forming research addressing some of the global healthcare and manufacturing challenges. Research sponsors include the UK Research Councils (mainly EPSRC), Orthopaedic Research UK, The Royal Society, The Wolfson Foundation, The Leverhulme Trust, The Islamic Development Bank, The Danish Agency for Science, Technology & Innovation, The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers and several industries. We enjoy close ties with the Healthy Infrastructure Research Group of UCL Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering and the
UCL School of Pharmacy with whom we have a special relationship
. Clinical work is carried out in conjunction with the UCL Eastman Dental Institute, UCL Cancer Institute and hospitals affiliated with UCL.
1) Exploration of Gyratory Techniques
The creation of a family of novel gyratory forming methods for polymeric fibres and microbubbles with industrially attractive yields gaining huge manufacturing advancement in key areas such as antimicrobial resistance, tissue engineering has generated significant impact. Pressurised gyration was patented and featured on the front cover of Macromolecular Rapid Communications in July 2013 and attracted an exceptional altmetric score of 10 and to-date nearly 100 citations. This process which can also create microbubbles (see front cover of Langmuir) was supported by BASF and bio-pharma companies (e.g. Astra Zeneca, Pfizer and Colorcon Ltd.) and an EPSRC manufacturing research grant . It generated substantial international interest particularly in USA and China. This has subsequently led to the creation of many other gyration-based sister-processes which have also won three front covers in leading journals:
and enormous industrial interest to win a large industrially-backed EPSRC healthcare grant which is now investigating the manufacture of a new generation of
antimicrobial filters
for healthcare.
2) Multi-layered Particles and Fibres
3) EPSRC Network Professor Mohan Edirisinghe
Biomaterials Processing Laboratory |