Research Facilities and Equipment

The MFL laboratories and workshops are equipped with start-of-the-art equipment supporting multi-disciplinary manufacturing-focused research. This underpins a wide range of academic and industrial collaborations and consultancy activities.

Drawing on a rich range of engineering and MFL researchers work across the biological, chemical and physical sciences in a series of specialist research pods. Each of the research pods is equipped with state-of-the-art research and analytical equipment shared between the MFL academic staff. The equipment is also available to support collaborative activities with academic and industrial colleagues.

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)