QMUL School of Engineering and Materials Science News

Afshin Anssari-Benam successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Afshin Anssari-Benam who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Structure-Function Relationships in the Aortic Valve”. Afshin was supervised by Dr Hazel Screen and will now take on a post-doc project based in UCL.

New funding for Graphene Nanocomposite research

t.peijs@qmul.ac.uk — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:00:00 +0100

The NanoSynth project will develop a synthesis platform to deliver industrial quantities of graphene-filled epoxy resins for high performance applications. This will have a significant effect in a wide range of markets where improvements are needed in strength, stiffness, toughness, electrical conductivity and thermal performance of epoxies. NanoSynth will develop methods for exfoliating graphite and disperse the resulting graphene directly into thermosetting resins for application areas such as advanced composites and multifunctional coatings.

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) funded project is due to start August 2012 and has a total value of £1M, and involves Dr. Emiliano Bilotti, Prof. Ton Peijs and QM’s spin-out Nanoforce Technology Ltd. The NanoSynth project will also involve industrial partners Netcomposites, Maelstrom Advanced Process Technologies, Advanced Composites Group, B/E Aerospace and Bombardier Aerospace.

Anna Sadowska successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Anna Sadowska who submitted within 3.5 years and this week successfully defended her PhD thesis “Formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots: the virtual structure approach”. Anna was supervised by Dr Henri Huijberts and her PhD research has led to 3 publications with another two in preparation. In mid-June Anna will move to the Technical University of Delft, where she will be working on two post-doc projects entitled “Intelligent Water Management” and “Distributed Smart-Grid Control”.

Zahra Khozaee successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Zahra Khozaee who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Studies on organic/inorganic nanocomposites of lead sulphide quantum dots in solution processed phythalocyanine films”. Zahra was supervised by Professor Asim Ray.

Marc-Krystelle Mafina successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Marc-Krystelle Mafina who this week successfully defended her PhD thesis “Development of Novel Fluorescent Probes to Monitor and Evaluate the Effect of Silicon Substitution on Protein Adsorption/Desorption to Hydroxyapatite ”. Krystelle was supervised by Dr Karin Hing.

Harish Patel successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Harish Patel who this week successfully defended his PhD thesis “Hemp Fibre Reinforced Sheet Moulding Compounds”. Harish was supervised by Prof Ton Peijs and has been working on the development and characterization of a novel natural fibre based composite material for the building industry. The project ran in close collaboration with the Building Research Establishment, Menzolite Ltd and Hemp Technology Ltd. and was supported by EPSRC.

Matthew Royle successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Matthew Royle who successfully defended his PhD thesis “Influence of coatings on ion release from large diameter metal-on-metal hip bearings”. Matt was supervised by Professor Julia Shelton.

Co-Winners of the best Third Year Projects Prize

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

At the recent Industrial Liaison Forum more than 125 of our 3rd and 4th year students presented their project work. Congratulations to Oliver Angell and Adaeze Iheobi who were joint winners for the best Third Year Projects. Oliver looked at “Reducing Induced Drag Using Novel Wing Tip Devices” while Adaeze focused on “Prediction of Fatigue Life in Osteotec Finger Joints”.

Project Prize Winners from Industrial Liaison Forum

c.blagden@qmul.ac.uk — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

At the recent Industrial Liaison Forum more than 125 of our 3rd and 4th year students presented their project work. Congratulations to Ellahe-Naz Farhangia who was awarded the best Fourth Year Project for "Armour Aluminium Alloys: Structure, Property & Ballistic Protection Correlations" and to the Solar Flare Team who were awarded the prize for best MEng Project group. The team designed an energy efficient vehicle with optimal aerodynamics at 1/5 scale of the original size. CNC was used to manufacture the vehicle and tested during rolling road experiments within a wind tunnel.

Industrial Liaison Forum February 10, 2012

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The biannual Industrial Liaison Forum was held on Friday February 10th in the Octagon. The focus of this semester’s event was on welcoming back Queen Mary alumni and on celebrating industrial project collaboration.

The event was a great success with over fifty visitors attending and was broken up into three parts; starting with a poster exhibition, followed by a networking lunch and completed with three separate panel sessions, chaired by SEMS academics and made up of attending alumni.

The morning session gave an opportunity for third and fourth year students to present their poster projects in the Octagon. A contest was held and awards given to the best third year project poster, the best fourth year project poster and the best MEng group project.

A networking lunch followed the poster competition giving SEMS faculty an opportunity to meet with visiting alumni and various industrial links who attended to discuss and celebrate on going collaboration with Queen Mary academics and students.

Finally in the afternoon the event was handed over to the visiting alumni to allow them the opportunity to speak to current students about what they have been doing since graduating from Queen Mary. Divided into three panels over thirty alumni participated and their stories were both interesting and inspirational!

The day was wrapped up with a final networking session in the Octagon allowing students a chance to enquire about possible opportunities available to them and to continue to make links with the attending industrial contacts.

The SEMS Industrial Liaison Forum has now been held twice a year for three years and provides an opportunity for students, academics and industrial links to interact and further Queen Mary’s strong position and reputation within the engineering and materials science industries.

The next Industrial Liaison Forum will again be held in the Octagon on November 14, 2012.

Elnaz Feizi successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Elnaz Feizi who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Study of improved design and physical properties of 12CaO.7AI2O3 thin films”. Elnaz was supervised by Professor Asim Ray.

Elfstedentocht Speed-skating Event

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Professor Ton Peijs has proposed that, when areas of ice are not thick enough to meet the requirements of a speed-skating competition in the Netherlands, the organisers could lay out newspaper then pour water on top and allow it to freeze. Ice must be 15cm thick across the whole course to hold the hours-long race. This year, 10 per cent of the course failed to reach this depth but with paper reinforcements, a 5cm thick layer of ice would be toughened enough to hold the race. It could then take place much more regularly- it is currently held around once per decade when the weather is cold enough and causes great excitement across the country. Professor Peijs's comments have been received with interest and he has since appeared on national Dutch TV.

Undergrad student project focused Industrial Liaison Forum attracts the most participants ever

j.busfield@qmul.ac.uk — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The industrial liaison forum (ILF) which will take place in the Octagon on Friday 10th February has just attracted its 60th external registrant. This means that it now has a larger contingent of external visitors than any previous SEMS ILF. At the event more than 125 of our 3rd and 4th year students will present their project work. Over 35 of the visitors are our own returning alumni. We hope to continue to grow the event so that it becomes an annual trip back to SEMS to see old friends and help advise our current students about life after QM.

Professor Pankaj Vadgama quoted in Times article: "Soon all our health will be gold ...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

An article on devices that are designed to help athletes win medals at the Olympics focuses on how the same technology will also benefit the wider public. Professor Pankaj Vadgama, director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials at QM, comments on one of the “more sci-fi gadgets”- a small device inserted under the skin that monitors lactate, oxygen and glucose levels. “It’s possible to monitor all these things already, but only if you’re wired up to lots of equipment,” he says. “The really exciting thing is that you now get continuous information in the field.” Professor Vadgama adds that “Athletes make great guinea pigs” who are "open and practical" and “a real catalyst for this research”.

Shahrzad Nayebossadri successfully defended her PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Shahrzad Nayebossadri, who submitted her thesis within four years and successfully defended her PhD thesis titled 'Computational and Experimental Study of Nasal Cavity Airflow Dynamics'. Shahrzad was supervised by Eldad Avital and Fariborz Motallebi.

Yankai Liu successfully defended his PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Yankai Liu who submitted his PhD thesis within 4 years and successfully defended himself in PhD examination on 16 December 2011. Yankai worked on 'Modelling studies on biological tissue property and mechanical responses under external stress'. He was supervised by Professor Wen Wang and Dr Yiling Lu. Yankai will carry on as a PDRA with Dr Himadri Gupta (SEMS) and Professor Maurice Elphic (SBCS) on an EPSRC project from 1 January 2012.

IoM3 commend Dr Joe Briscoe's paper in the 2010 Literature Review competition

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

A recent PhD student, Dr Joe Briscoe, of Dr Steve Dunn (now working in SEMS as a PDRA) has just had his contribution to the 2010 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining literature review competition commended . ‘Extremely thin absorber solar cells based on nanostructured semi-conductors’ has just been published in Materials Science and Technology. Details can be found http://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/research/paperabstract.php?pid=4001

SEMS awarded Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Dr Stephanie Bryant will be visiting SEMS from January to April next year, working with Hazel Screen on a novel tendon tissue engineering project. This visit, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship, will focus on optimising the mechanical load environment for tendon cells, to help promote tissue healing. Whilst at QMUL, Dr Bryant will also be giving a number of seminars and providing some lectures to both our undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Maria del Pilar Garcia Souto successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Maria del Pilar Garcia Souto who successfully defended her PhD thesis. Pilar's thesis titled 'Thermal models of humans for smart climatic control' was supervised by Peter Dabnichki.

Industrial Liaison Forum and SEMS Prize Day

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The biannual Industrial Liaison Forum was held on Wednesday October 19th in the Octagon. The event was a great success with over fifty industrialists from over forty organisations attending. The event was broken up into three parts, starting with the PhD research poster exhibition, followed by the annual SEMS Prize Day ceremony for the 2010-2011 academic year and finally completed with four separate panel sessions, chaired by SEMS academics and made up of attending industrial participants.

The PhD poster exhibition was of great interest to faculty, students and attending industrialists alike. Over 60 posters were displayed with three prizes awarded, sponsored by ARTIS, the National Physical Laboratory and Becker Industrial Coatings Ltd.

The annual SEMS Prize Day ceremony then followed with over fifty student prizes and nearly £8000 in prize money awarded. There were a number of multiple award recipients and all of the winners were honoured to have their prizes delivered by a number of industrial sponsors, Vice Principal Jeremy Kilburn and Principal Simon Gaskell.

Finally the day was brought to a resoundingly successful completion as four parallel panel sessions were held, attended by over 350 SEMS students. The sessions were chaired by SEMS academics and made up of leading industrialists in the areas of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Materials Science and Healthcare Engineering.

The SEMS Industrial Liaison Forum has now been held twice a year for three years and provides an opportunity for students, academics and industrial links to interact and further Queen Mary’s strong position and reputation within the engineering and materials science industries.

The next Industrial Liaison Forum will again be held in the Octagon on February 10, 2012 and will be focused on current MEng projects and industrial links with SEMS alumni.

Zaheer Ikram successfully defended PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Zaheer Ikram who successfully defended his PhD thesis. Zaheer's thesis titled 'Numerical Investigation of the effects of free-surface flow past submerged streamlined and bluff bodies' was supervised by John Williams and Eldad Avital.

Sandra Ciampone successfully defends her PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Sandra Ciampone who successfully defended her PhD thesis. Sandra's thesis titled 'Methods for Seated Posture Recognition' was supervised by Peter Dabnichki.

3 year Leverhulme Trust grant to study ferroelectric materials has started

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

A 3 year study that will focus on developing ferroelectric materials for use a photocatalysts to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into useful fuels has started today. The grant expands on Dr Dunn’s work that has shown the band positions and spatial photochemistry of ferroelectrics make them an interesting alternative to the existing materials that are currently under intense investigation. The aim of the project is to develop an understanding of the limits of the photochemistry and determine if visible light can be harnessed to drive the reactions.

Hussein Ershadi Oskoi wins Beckers Research Poster Prize

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Hussein Ershadi Oskoi who won the Beckers prize for his poster presentation titled 'Resistive Humidity Sensor and Test & Humidity Measuring Systems'. Hussein is currently researching his PhD in SEMS under the supervision of Pankaj Vadgama.

Iffat Patel wins National Physical Laboratory Research Poster Prize

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Iffat Patel who won the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) prize for her poster presentation titled 'Nanocomposite Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Synthesis through Layer-by Layer Assembly'. Iffat is currently researching her PhD in SEMS under the supervision of Gleb Sukhorukov.

Zhipeng Gao wins Artis Research Poster Prize

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Zhipeng Gao who won the Artis prize for his poster presentation titled 'Pr2Ti2O7-A new super-high temperature piezoelectric material'. Zhipeng is currently researching his PhD in SEMS under the supervision of Mike Reece and Haixue Yan.

Chi Chi Zhang successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Chi Chi Zhang who successfully defended his PhD thesis. Chi's thesis titled 'Geometric and scale effects on energy absorption of structural composites' was supervised by Paul Hogg and Ton Peijs.

Chi Chi Zhang successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Chi Chi Zhang who successfully defended his PhD thesis. Chi's thesis titled 'Geometric and Scale Effects on Energy Absorption of Structural Composites' was supervised by Paul Hogg.

Fei Hang successfully defends his PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Fei Hang who successfully defended his PhD thesis.Fei's thesis titled 'In-situ nanomechanical investigations of bone' was supervised by Asa Barber.

BBSRC grant awarded 'Targeted drug delivery to neurons and glia using light-and field-sensitive ...

g.sukhorukov@qmul.ac.uk — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Prof. Gleb Sukhorukov (SEMS) was awarded a BBSRC grant together with UCL (Prof.Rusakov and Dr.Volynski) and School of Physics and Astronomy, QMUL (A. Sapelkin and M.Baxendale). The project is entitled "Targeted drug delivery to neurons and glia using light-and field-sensitive microcapsules". The research will be devoted to elaboration of encapsulation technology for delivery of specific signalling molecules into targeted nerve and glial cells while monitoring cell function in real time and finally in finally in organized brain tissues at UCL.
QMUL based research will be conducted in newly opened Nano-Bio-materials processing lab.

Figure 1. An example of TRITC release (810nm light, emission shown in red) from a capsule internalised by a B50 cell in culture. Top: Experiment diagram. Bottom: A. The test cell with capsules inside; arrow indicates the site of release B: Residual emission in the cell lumen four hours after irradiation.

Zhenling Luo successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Zhenling Luo who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 'The role of microRNAs in human embryonic stem cell differentiation into endothelial cells'. Zhenling's research was supervised by Prof Wen Wang and Prof QB Xu (co-supervisor) at King's College London.

Hafiz Muhammad Ali successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Hafiz Muhammad Ali who successfully defended his PhD thesis on 'Free-Convection Condensation on Single Horizontal Pin-Fin Tubes'. Hafiz's research was supervised by Dr Adrian Briggs. His work involved the experimental and theoretical investigation on the performance and optimization of three-dimensionally enhanced pin-fin tubes. During his PhD studies, Hafiz contributed as lead author to the publication of three journal articles with more planned, and four conference papers.

Henry Clarke successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Henry Clarke who successfully defended his PhD thesis on 'A Novel Cryogenic Energy System for Zero Emission Vehicles'. Henry's research was supervised by Dr Dongsheng Wen.

Student satisfaction in SEMS tops College, Materials best in UK

c.a.jones@qmul.ac.uk — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Student satisfaction in SEMS is now at 93 – 96% according to a nationwide survey of final year students. The 2011 National Student Survey questioned UK undergraduates on various aspects of their student experience and measured overall student satisfaction.

Materials at Queen Mary, University of London is number 1 in the UK in the NSS rankings, with Aerospace Engineering ranked 2nd and Mechanical Engineering 5th. All SEMS programmes have been rated as the best in London.

"We are delighted that the students in SEMS are happy with our support, teaching and organisation, and that they recognise the value of our learning resources. We try very hard to fully support all our students and it is tremendous that the students have ranked us so highly". Julia Shelton, Director of Taught Programmes

Queen Mary, University of London, has achieved overall student satisfaction of 88% to rank equal second in London with UCL, and ahead of King’s College London, LSE and Imperial College.

Jia Ma and Wei Tu successfully defend their PhD theses

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to husband and wife Wei Tu and Jia Ma who both this week successfully defended their PhD theses. Jia successfully defended on Monday her thesis 'Processing of Polymer-based Systems for Improved Performance and Controlled Release’, supervised by Profs Gleb Sukhorukov and Ton Peijs, while Wei defended this Friday his thesis entitled ‘Comeld Joints: Optimisation of Geometric Parameters of the Protrusions’ supervised by Dr Pihua Wen and Profs Felicity Guild and Paul Hogg. Wei Tu is currently working with Nanoforce Technology Ltd.

Claire Fitzgerald successfully defends PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Claire Fitzgerald who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 'Forced-convection condensation heat-transfer on horizontal integral-fin tubes including effects of liquid retention'. Claire plans to spend the next year working in China. Claire's research was supervised by Dr Adrian Briggs and Dr Hua Sheng Wang.

Bioengineering 11 Conference

c.a.jones@qmul.ac.uk — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100

SEMS is to host the annual meeting of the Bioengineering Society which will share and explore the latest research and issues in the field of bioengineering. The Dean for Research in Science and Engineering, Professor Wen Wang, will chair the meeting being held between 12 and 13 September. further details can be found on: http://www.bioeng.org.uk/

Arsalan Ahmad successfully defends his PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Arsalan Ahmad, who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled 'Experimental Aeroacoustics Study on Jet Noise Reduction Using Tangential Air Injection'. Ahmad was supervised by Dr Eldad Avital, Professor Chris Lawn and Dr John Cater from the University of Auckland.

Angelo Karunaratne's research gains recognition from Bone Research Society and ASBMR

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Angelo Karunaratne who won best poster prize at the Bone Research Society Meeting in Cambridge, in addition to this Angelo's high ranking abstract won the 2011 ASBMR Young Investigator Travel Grant for the abstract presentation “In-situ synchrotron SAXS Combined with Micromechanical Testing to Serve as an In-Vitro Nanomechanical Functional Imaging Technique to Measure the Bone Quality Degradation in Metabolic Bone Diseases”
Angelo's research is supervised by Dr Himadri Gupta and by Dr Nick Perrill at Diamond Light source, Harwell, UK.

NanoVision Centre microscopy technique published in Nature Protocols

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

A method to reveal the 3 dimensional micro-architecture of complex biological tissues has been perfected at Queen Mary’s NanoVision Centre for advanced microscopy. The method uses the Centre’s focused ion beam – scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) to cut away a thin slice of material from a resin embedded block of biological tissue. This surface is then imaged before cutting away another thin slice and repeating the process. Automated sequential slicing and imaging allows a 3D data set to be build-up over relatively large volumes of tissue while still resolving sub-cellular detail. The technique could have wide applications in structural biology, particularly in determining the relationship between cells and their local organisation within tissues or organisms that are important to understanding developmental biological or changes in response to disease.
Andy Bushby (School of Engineering and Materials Science) in collaboration with colleagues at Cardiff University have developed the method through an EPSRC Access to Materials Research Equipment grant (EP/F019882/1). The importance of the work has been recognised through publication of the detailed methodology in the journal Nature Protocols and is the featured paper for June 2011.

Ref: A.J. Bushby, K.M.Y. Png, R.D.Young, C. Pinali, C. Knupp and A.J. Quantock (2011): “Imaging Three-Dimensional Tissue Architectures by Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy”, Nature Protocols, 6(6), 845-858.

Ahmed Al-Musleh successfully defends PhD Thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Ahmed Al-Musleh, who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled 'Development of Frameworks for implementation TQM principles in construing industry'. Ahmed was supervised by Ihtesham Rehman.

Tanya Ekers successfully defended her PhD thesis

j.hills@qmul.ac.uk — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Congratulations to Tanya Ekers who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 'Nanoindentation as a Method to Interrogate the Mechanical Properties of Polymer Coatings'. Polymer coatings are becoming increasingly important in technologies such as car body finishes, domestic appliances and natural wood flooring. Nanoindentation is widely used to measure the mechanical behaviour of coatings and thin films but polymer coatings present some unique problems due to the time dependence of their mechanical response. Their properties may also change due to environmental factors such as moisture and sunlight. Tanya has developed new test methods that help to overcome these problems and provide more reliable material property data. The project was funded by an EPSRC CASE award in collaboration with ICI Strategic Technologies (now Akzo Nobel). Tanya was supervised by Dr Andy Bushby.

Dr. Fariborz Motallebi appears on BBC's The One Show talking about the effect of the latest ...

e.g.dimascio@qmul.ac.uk — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

As the ash cloud threatened to cause disruption to European flights again, Fariborz Motallebi explained the effect of the ash on the aircraft engines when in flight on The One Show.

Karin Hing is awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for 2011

Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Please join us in congratulating Karin Hing on being awarded one of 4 prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medals for 2011. This is for her longstanding work with ApaTech developing bone graft substitute materials including ApaPore™ and Actifuse™. You can read more about the award by following the link.

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