National Capability Database – Full listing

Precision Manufacturing

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Nottingham

    • The Precision Manufacturing Centre at the University of Nottingham has an extensive range of state of the art precision manufacturing technologies including micro milling, micro EDM ... More info

    Phosphate-based glass and fibre production

  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Nottingham

    • UoN has extensive experience of manufacturing resorbable glass and glass-fibres within the Centre for Innovative Structural Fibre Manufacture (CISFM). There are facilities for glass production, melt—drawn ... More info

    Biocomposite Manufacture

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Nottingham

    • UoN has extensive experience of manufacturing resorbable biocomposites reinforced with glass and glass-fibres within Composites Research Group. There are facilities for high pressure composite production via ... More info

    Manufacture of Bulk and Porous microspheres

  • Clinical Delivery
  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Biological & Biomimetic Materials
  • Near-Patient Manufacture
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Nottingham

    • Very recent developments at Nottingham have resulted in creation of a Platform Technology for manufacture of microspheres from glass, glass-ceramic and ceramics.

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    Pre-clinical Wear Simulation : Material Screening

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Leeds

    • iMBE has extensive pre-clinical wear simulation facilities with in excess of 80 stations for studying tribology of hip, knee and spine arthroplasty bearing materials and ... More info

    Pre-clinical Wear Simulation: Hip testing capabilities

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Leeds

    • iMBE has extensive pre-clinical wear simulation facilities with in excess of 80 stations for studying tribology of hip, knee and spine arthroplasty bearing materials and ... More info

    Pre-clinical Wear Simulation: Knee testing capabilities

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Leeds

    • iMBE has extensive pre-clinical wear simulation facilities with in excess of 80 stations for studying tribology of hip, knee and spine arthroplasty bearing materials and ... More info

    Determination of friction for hip implants

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Leeds

    • To complement our pre-clinical wear simulation facilities we have capability to measure the friction of artificial and natural joints through a variety of methods, from ... More info

    Determination of friction for knee implants

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Leeds

    • To complement our pre-clinical wear simulation facilities we have capability to measure the friction of artificial and natural joints through a variety of methods, from ... More info

    Characterisation of Natural Biomaterial Properties

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Leeds

    • We have developed a range of testing methodologies in order to characterise the material properties of natural tissues. This includes tensile/compressive testing to failure, creep/stress ... More info

    Decellularisation process for animal tissue

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Leeds

    • iMBE has extensive capability and know-how in a unique decellularisation process of animal tissues. Supported by an intellectual property portfolio on immunocompatible biomimetic natural scaffolds, and ... More info

    Decellularisation process for human tissue

  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Biological & Biomimetic Materials
  • University of Leeds

    • iMBE has extensive capability and know-how in a unique decellularisation process for human tissues. Supported by an intellectual property portfolio on immunocompatible biomimetic natural scaffolds, and ... More info

    Development of analysis methods for decellularisation

  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Biological & Biomimetic Materials
  • University of Leeds

    • Leeds has a unique capability in research towards clinical and commercial translation of biological scaffolds in musculoskeletal and cardiovascular applications. The expertise is in the development ... More info

    Biocompatibility/immunology of prosthetic wear particles and biomaterials

  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Biological & Biomimetic Materials
  • University of Leeds

    • Leeds has a unique capability in developing testing methods to understand the biological consequences of exposure to biomaterials for tissue replacement in the musculoskeletal system. Examples ... More info

    Solid Phase orientation of biomedical or inert polymers

  • Clinical Delivery
  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Biological & Biomimetic Materials
  • Near-Patient Manufacture
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Bradford

    • The Polymer IRC at Bradford has unique worldwide experimental and modelling facilities for ‘process structuring’, in this first case for  deformation processing of polymers in ... More info

    Micromoulding of high precision miniature products with specific surface features

  • Clinical Delivery
  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Biological & Biomimetic Materials
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Bradford

    • A second case of our ‘Process Structuring’ is micromoulding – high speed, high precision moulding of 3-d components typically with large surface area to volume ... More info

    Computer modelling over the length scales of biomedical polymers and composites

  • Product Design
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • University of Bradford

    • Finite element modelling including modelling of nanoscale, through to meso scale using representative volume elements and simulation technologies to achieve macroscopic scale prediction for material ... More info

    Property gradient biomedical materials and products

  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • University of Bradford

    • We have expertise in biomedical materials, and have programmes involving property gradient materials including hydrogels for joint repair, and use the processing techniques above to ... More info

    Nanofibre fabrication

  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Stratified Design & Manufacture
  • University of Leeds

    • Free-surface electrospinning capabilities are available for converting a large variety of biomaterials into fibres and webs suitable for integration in to prototype medical devices. The ... More info

    Nonwoven scaffold/graft prototyping facility

  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • University of Leeds

    • Based upon a working width of 0.2-1m, industrially applicable pilot-scale facilities are available for the manufacture of nonwovens using drylaid, wetlaid, spunmelt, hydroentangling, needling, chemical ... More info

    Characterisation of fibrous scaffolds and grafts

  • Product Design
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • University of Leeds

    • A suite of instrumental methods are available specifically for the characterisation of fibre-based scaffolds and grafts to ensure satisfactory product performance and to aid in ... More info

    Microfibre production

  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • University of Leeds

    • Pilot scale wet spinning and melt-spinning facilities enable manufacture of continous filaments from solution spun and polymer-melts, with and without nanoparticle inclusions. Continuous in-line manufacture ... More info

    Bioactive material development

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Biological & Biomimetic Materials
  • Near-Patient Manufacture
  • Newcastle University

    • Expertise and laboratory scale facilities for polymer and ceramic synthesis, and for the assessment of their mechanical and biological properties using in vitro assays and ... More info

    Bioactive device design, development and batch manufacture

  • Clinical Delivery
  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • Biological & Biomimetic Materials
  • Near-Patient Manufacture
  • Newcastle University

    • Wide range of additive manufacture, 3d printing and moulding technques to fabricate macro and micro porous bioactive structures in biopolymers (natural and synthetic), bioceramic and ... More info

    Nanomaterial manufacture

  • Pre-clinical Testing
  • Product Design
  • Product Manufacture
  • Research & Development
  • All
  • University of Nottingham

    • Nanomaterials in both slurry and dry forms. These nanomaterials can be in the form of metals, metal oxides, phosphates, carbonates, sulfides, hydroxides
    Morphology can be ... More info

    Stages in the technology development process

    Scientific Focus Areas