Current Sponsors
Our current and past partnerships with sponsors with whom we are very pleased to be associated are listed below. Some sponsors have more than one Research Engineer placed with them, with different research topics.
More detailed information on project abstracts will be uploaded to these pages in the very near future.
| Sponsor Organisation | Research Area |
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| Sun Chemical | Development of novel smart packaging for use in the food industry - Completed |
| Plasma Quest |
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| National Physical Laboratory |
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| Qinetiq | Nanophotonic materials and devices for sensing applications |
| Scott Bader | Development of sustainable and nano enhanced composite materials |
| BAE Systems |
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| TWI Technology Engineering |
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| Hexcel | Understanding and novel improvements in advanced composites at the nano and macro scales |
| Morgan Sindall | High performance cement composites for tunnelling and other applications |
| Lockheed Martin | Lightweight materials for vehicles |
| Tetreon | Optimising solar electricity output from silicon p-n junction solar cells for mass production |
| DSTL |
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| Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
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| Thomas Swan | Novel electro-spinning techniques with nanomaterials |
| Heidleberg Cement | The validation of conventional tests of transport in cements |
| Indestructible | Optimisation of nanomaterial additives to high performance coatings |
| Proctor & Gamble Gillette | Friction in shaving |
| AkzoNobel | Drying of water borne coatings |
| Corewire | The effect of process variables on the microstructure and performance of tungsten carbide systems for wear applications |
| Pall Europe | Determining the critical fluid properties for the selection and organisation of liquid systems used to evaluate filter integrity |
| M-Solv |
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| Lafarge | Transport and dynamics in nanopores of concrete |
| Thames Water | Performance assessment of trunk mains |
| Ceram | Ceramic composites for ballistic applications |
| AWE |
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| ThermoFisher | The three dimensional molecular structure of technological polymers |
| TiSICS |
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To succeed, personal effort, creativity, independency and self-motivation is required.
Achilleas Sesis
MiNMaT Research Engineer
