National Capability Database | Product Manufacture
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 infoSolid Phase orientation of biomedical or inert polymers
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
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
Property gradient biomedical materials and products
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
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
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
Microfibre production
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
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