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Engineering Materials and Surface Engineering Group

Material held in hands.

We’re working to enable surface interactions to occur with minimal energy loss and impact on the environment through enhanced materials performance and improved designs.

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We will provide the next generation of technology in: 

  • microsystems 
  • biomedical engineering 
  • engineering 
  • engineering chemistry 
     

Our research areas stretch across many topics including: 

  • aerospace and automotive materials 
  • energy materials 
  • corrosion 
  • artificial hips 
  • Microsystems 
  • 3D printing 

 
Our current research areas include: 

  • functional materials 
  • future manufacturing & processing 
  • advanced characterisation of structural materials 
  • advanced prosthetics and orthotics 

People, projects and publications

People

Dr Nong Gao

Lecturer
Connect with Nong

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3396

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Dr Orestis Katsamenis

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • 3D X-ray Histology (XRH)
  • Microfocus Computed Tomography (μCT) of biological and biogenic materials
  • μCT for clinical applications

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Orestis

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 7574

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Professor Philippa Reed

PROFESSOR OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS

Research interests

  • Fatigue processes in additively manufactured high performance alloys
  • High temperature oxidation and creep fatigue processes in nickel based turbine disc and blade alloys
  • Fatigue mitigation and prediction approaches in turbine blades

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Philippa

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3763

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Dr Richard Boardman PhD, MInstP

Principal Enterprise Fellow
Connect with Richard

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 7943

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Professor Terence G. Langdon

Research Professor of Materials Science

Research interests

  • Creep and superplasticity of metals, ceramics and geological materials
  • Processing using severe plastic deformation
  • Utrafine-grained and nanostructured materials
Connect with Terence G.

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3766

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It’s important for research to have a broad view, for me the excitement comes from engineering advanced materials, devices and intelligent systems for new sciences and technologies which address unmet application needs.
Professor Liudi Jiang
Professor of Materials & Electromec Syst