Research Facilities and Equipment
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Research and teaching activities within MFL are supported by a specialist Precision Fabrication Workshop (PFW) staffed by four, highly-skilled, Workshop Manufacturing Engineers. The workshop offers a complete design, development and manufacturing service for novel scientific equipment that cannot be obtained commercially. The focus is on computer-aided design and manufacturing systems (CAD/CAM) for rapid progression from prototype to final device. The PFW is located on the ground floor of the Marshgate building and is equipped with a wide range of precision fabrication equipment including a range of 3 and 5-axis milling machines, lathes, 3D printers and laser cutters.’
A summary of the specialist research and analytical equipment in the various research pods is provided below:
- Microfabrication and analysis equipment
- Additive manufacturing (high resolution 3D-printing)
- Automated continuous flow reactors and liquid-handling robots
- Fermentation (to 30L scale) and associated downstream processing equipment
- On-line process analytical technologies (e.g. UV-Vis, Raman and mIR spectroscopy, etc)
- Chemical analysis instrumentation (e.g. GC, HPLC, GC/LC-MS, AES, NMR etc)
- Materials characterization instrumentation (e.g. AFM, BET, DSC, TGA, DLS, XRD, rheometer, contact angle measurement etc)
- Fluid flow and visualization (high speed cameras, PIV, micro-PIV)
- Glove boxes (controlled atmosphere experimentation)