GREAT Technologies

Date: July 9, 2014

Location: Polymer IRC Laboratories, University of Bradford

This meeting will focus on current research, and new opportunities created by the award of  a Great Technologies Capital grant for Advanced Materials of £6.52 million to the Bradford team, (£3.42m from EPSRC, £2m from the University of Bradford and industry support of £1.1m).  This is bringing state of the art facilities and support for Advanced Materials for Healthcare in:
·         SPECIALIST ADVANCED MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
·         CHARACTERISATION AND MONITORING FACILITIES
We welcome collaborative research with academic, and industry – Come see and hear about our new facilities  and discuss opportunities with us.
Draft Programme:
11.30     Introduction
11.40      Nano characterisation capabilities  ( 3-d AFM, nanoindenting, cryomicrotome,  micromechanics)
12.00     High speed optical and thermal imaging in micro moulding
12.20     MicroCT  and new 3d printing facilities
12.40     Lunch
13.45     Medical Devices Centre of Innovative Manufacturing – introduction
14.00     Novel ultrasound moulding and Micro power
14.20     At process measurements
14.40     BIG Strategy Discussion
15.00     Demonstrations available
16.00     Tea/ End
For the locations of the Polymer IRC laboratories, hotels, etc… in Google Maps click here.
Contact: Prof Phil Coates tel 01274 234540  p.d.coates@bradford.ac.uk;   See also www.polyeng.com
For our other Polymer IRC sites, please visitwww.polymerirc.org