Materials & Manufacturing Show and Tell Series
Join us for a series of online webinars where UK academics showcase their incredible research with the aim of further developing these into commercial technologies through collaboration and partnerships with industry.
About the series
Innovate UK’s Materials and Manufacturing Vision 2050 details the opportunities that lie ahead of the UK Materials and Manufacturing sectors as we strive for a net zero future. However, the technological breakthroughs of tomorrow are not possible without the research we pursue today.
The Materials and Manufacturing Show and Tell series aims to increase the reach of innovative research born out of UK universities. Our academics are world leaders in terms of the quality and impact of the research they produce, and the scale up of their novel ideas play a vital role in boosting the UK economy and ensuring a more resilient, secure, and sustainable future.
Scheduled Show and Tell sessions
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From post-consumer plastic bottles to valuable and sustainable self-reinforced PET composites
Dr Terry McGrail, Visiting Professor, School of Engineering, Universities of Edinburgh and Sheffield
Advances in ultra-high temperature ceramic matrix composites
Professor Jon Binner, CEng, FIMMM, FECerS, FACerS, FAmpere, Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham
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Use of Enzymes to Reduce Plastic Waste
Dr Victoria Bemmer, Senior Research Fellow and Industrial Engagement Lead, Centre of Enzyme Innovation, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Portsmouth
Policy Action to Reduce Plastic Pollution
Professor Steve Fletcher, Director of the University of Portsmouth Revolution Plastics Institute, NERC Agenda Setting Fellow for Plastic Pollution
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Making paints without petrochemicals
Professor Justin Perry, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University
Fibre Spreading and the Production of Composite
Professor Gerard Fernando, Sensors and Composites Group, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham
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3D printing: From the Lab to the Industry
Professor Moataz Attallah BSc, MSc, PhD, AHEA; Professor of Advanced Materials Processing and Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer, School of Metallurgy & Materials, University of Birmingham
Leveraging Neuro-Symbolic AI in Digital Manufacturing and Construction
Dr Lavindra de Silva PhD, Principal Research Associate in Digital Roads, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
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Colorolicious: Bioinspired Structural Colours for Edible Innovation
Dr. Ahu Gumrah Parry, Lecturer in Bioinspired Soft Matter, School of Materials, University of Manchester
Induction processing for sustainable manufacture of composites: challenges, solutions, technology
Dmitry S. Ivanov, Associate Professor in Composites Manufacturing, Theme Lead in Manufacturing and Design at Bristol Composites Institute, Research Co-director (Manufacturing) of EPSRC CDT in Innovation for Sustainable Composites Engineering, Bristol Composites Institute, School of Civil, Aerospace, and Design Engineering, University of Bristol
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Advances in Structural Energy Storage and the Aspiration for Massless Energy
Professor Emile Greenhalgh, Professor of Composite Materials, Imperial College London, and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies
Fibre Composites Under Compression: Opportunities from the NextCOMP Project
Professor Milo Shaffer, Professor of Materials Chemistry, Imperial College London
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Design of collagen-based textile fibres for advanced wound care
Professor Giuseppe Tronci, Professor of Healthcare Materials, University of Leeds
E-textile based wearable electrotherapy for knee joint pain management
Professor Kai Yang, Professor of E-textiles in Healthcare, University of Southampton
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Screen-printing science to enhance the performance of printed electronics
Dr Sarah-Jane Potts CEng, MIMechE, MIMMM, FHEA, Lecturer in Engineering Sustainability, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Swansea University
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Professor Trystan Watson, Head of Department, Materials Science and Engineering, Swansea University
Join us each week and learn about the incredible innovation taking place within our research institutions, where we can work to enable collaborations and partnerships between academic research and the commercial world.
If you are a UK academic with relevant research to share, please complete our Expression of Interest form (EOI). Submitting the EOI does not guarantee a speaking slot and unfortunately, we are not able to provide feedback if your EOI is unsuccessful.
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