The Chairman of Council, Dr Colette Bowe met the Aerosol Science & Technology research group (see web link below) in the Department of Materials on the 12th of May 2004. She visited the new Advanced Jet-based Processing Laboratory of the group and was shown some examples of their research. The nine-member group specialise in the application of aerosol science and engineering to process bio-, functional- and structural- materials and have pioneered the processing of high viscosity concentrated suspensions and liquids by Electrohydrodynamic Atomisation (EHDA). EPSRC and Royal Society funding for this research over the last few years have exceeded 0.5 million pounds and over 20 research papers have been published recently in international journals. Collaborative projects are underway with Cambridge University, UCL, Cranfield University and the University of Seville in Spain. This research is generic and inter-disciplinary, cutting across the boundaries of engineering, physical and biological sciences. They invented gold medal winning electrostatic atomisation printing and a spray-based method of forming porous solids and have swiftly extended research from liquids to precursors to micro-suspensions to nano-suspensions, thus depositing the finest relics of nano-particles. A pressure-based, electric field-free method of jet-based and aerosol-assisted procedure of materials processing is also being developed. Also, a new class of fine electrically forced jets and a new ball-cone mode of atomisation have been discovered and this questions the well-established physical laws of classical EHDA. Using SRIF funding, the Advanced Jet-based Materials Processing Laboratory, with equipment such as a laser driven fine droplet size analyser and a special microscope to detect and study droplet relics, a laser guided camera to study jet profiles and 2D/3D deposition devices, is now in operation.