National Capability Database | Product Design
Precision Manufacturing
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
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
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
Very recent developments at Nottingham have resulted in creation of a Platform Technology for manufacture of microspheres from glass, glass-ceramic and ceramics.
... More infoPre-clinical Wear Simulation : Material Screening
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
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
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
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
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
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