Division of Materials Engineering
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- Academic Staff Members
- Associate Academic Staff Members
- Postdoc Research Assistants
- Professional Services
- Current PhD Students
- PhD Graduates
Academic Staff Group Members
![]() Prof Cees Bastiaansen |
![]() Dr Emiliano BilottiReader |
![]() Prof James Busfield |
![]() Prof Andy Bushby |
![]() Dr Gabriel Cavalli |
![]() Dr Colin Crick |
![]() Dr Oliver Fenwick |
![]() Dr Karin Hing |
![]() Prof Sir Colin Humphreys |
![]() Prof Steffi Krause |
![]() Dr Zhe Li |
![]() Dr Dimitrios Papageorgiou |
![]() Dr Stuart Peters |
![]() Prof Nicola Pugno |
![]() Prof Michael Reece |
![]() Dr Lei Su |
![]() Prof Gleb SukhorukovProfessor of Biomedical Materials |
![]() Prof Elizabeth Tanner |
![]() Prof Pankaj Vadgama |
![]() Dr Haixue Yan |
![]() Dr Han Zhang |
Associate Academic Staff Group Members
![]() Prof Kaspar Althoefer |
![]() Dr Lorenzo Botto |
![]() Dr Joe Briscoe |
![]() Prof Joost de Bruijn |
![]() Prof Julien Gautrot |
![]() Dr Himadri GuptaReader in Bioengineering and Biophysics |
![]() Dr Ana Jorge Sobrido |
![]() Prof Alvaro Mata |
![]() Dr Petra Ãgota Szilágyi |
![]() Prof Magdalena Titirici |
![]() Dr Yousef Zawahreh |
Postdoc Research Associates
![]() Dr Minerva Bosch ForteaPostdoctoral Research Associate |
![]() Dr Ilanna Campelo Lopes |
![]() Dr Kan ChenPostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Dr Anirban DasMarie-Curie Fellow |
![]() Dr Stefania Di Cio |
![]() Dr Khai Duong Quang NguyenKTP Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Dr Salvatore GrassoPostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Dr Simon Gravelle |
![]() Mr Chuan GuPostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Mr Abshar HasanPostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Dr Sheetal Inamdar |
![]() Dr Catherine Kamal |
![]() Dr Dexu KongPostdoctoral Research Associate |
![]() Mr Wanlin LiPostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Dr Rajesh Madhu |
![]() Ms Magda MartinezIntern |
![]() Dr William MegonePostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Dr Nan MengPostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Mr Pierpaolo ModugnoESR Marie-Curie Researcher |
![]() Miss Sabina Alexandra NicolaeESR Marie Curie Researcher |
![]() Dr Arun Prakash Periasamy |
![]() Mr Fabrizio PutzuResearch Assistant |
![]() Mr Ataka RizqiResearch Assistant |
![]() Dr Yiwei Sun |
![]() Dr Vanira Trifiletti |
![]() Mr Ying TuPostdoctoral Research Assistant |
![]() Dr Zhichao Weng |
![]() Dr Hangfeng Zhang |
![]() Dr Luming ZhaoMarie Curie Research Fellow |
Professional Services
![]() Dr Vicente Araullo-Peters |
![]() Dr Russell Bailey |
Current PhD Students
Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
AGRAWAL, Adyant | Mathematical and computational modelling of exfoliation in liquids | Emiliano Bilotti |
AHMED, Shafique | Zirconia based ceramics for dental application | Haixue Yan |
BARTLEY, Moresche | Collagen Based Bioactive Electrospun Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering | Elizabeth Tanner |
BERTEI, Claudia | Physical, mechanical and structural properties of organogels for oral care application | Emiliano Bilotti |
BHATTI, Muhammad Rehan | Photo-responsive HDPE films: Effect of additive Concentration, Film Thickness and Draw Ratio on Stress Relaxation and Photo-mechanical work | Emiliano Bilotti |
DE ACUTIS, Aurora | TBC | James Busfield |
DRAIN, Ben | Post-Polymerisation modification to form functional polymers | James Busfield |
ERMAKOV, Alexey | TBC | Gleb Sukhorukov |
FAN, Pengfei | Deep learning optical imaging and sensing | Lei Su |
FU, Shuai | Phase transitions in Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 based ferroelectrics. | Haixue Yan |
HERNANDEZ ALVAREZ, Cesar | TBC | Lei Su |
HOHENBERGER, Travis | The design of down hole elastomer packers for the oil and gas industry | James Busfield |
HU, Zimeng | Electromagnetic coupling in multiferroics | Haixue Yan |
JACQUES, Rachel | TBC | Steffi Krause |
KAUR, Anureet | Self Healing Elastomers | James Busfield |
KERNIN, Arnaud | Kirigami-engineering of polymer nanocomposites films | Emiliano Bilotti |
KUDRIAVTCEVA, Valeriia | Remote controlled drug depot systems | Gleb Sukhorukov |
KYEI-MANU, William | TBC | James Busfield |
KöHNKEN-SAWALL, Jasmin | Development of Mechanically Enhanced Osteogenic Synthetic Bone Graft Substitutes | Karin Hing |
LI, Yixiao | TBC | Gleb Sukhorukov |
LIU, Tianjun | Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite thermoelectric materials | Oliver Fenwick |
LUONG, Sally | N-type organic thermoelectric materials | Oliver Fenwick |
MOHANAKRISHNAN, Jeviya | Towards in-vivo electrochemical imaging with flexible, light-addressable organic semiconductor electrodes | Steffi Krause |
MUNOZ CASTRO, Natalia | TBC | Elizabeth Tanner |
RUDDLESDEN, Michael | Multi-Mode Fibre Imaging & Sensing | Lei Su |
SADLER, Emma | TBC | Colin Crick |
SILVA BLANKENAGEL, Karen | Polymeric Hydrogel Waveguide for Clinical Applications | Lei Su |
SUENA GALINDEZ, Eugenio | Fully printed thermoelectric devices. | Oliver Fenwick |
TABASSUM, Madeeha | Perovskite light emitting devices | Lei Su |
TANG, Weidong | Doping of halide perovskites with heterovalent cations for thermoelectric applications | Oliver Fenwick |
VENTURA, Leonardo | Mechanical behaviour of kirigami | Emiliano Bilotti |
VIZCAINO VERGARA, Maria | TBC | James Busfield |
WAN, Kening | Conductive Polymers and Polymer Nanocomposites for Flexible Thermoelectrics | Emiliano Bilotti |
WANG, Bowen | TBC | Haixue Yan |
WANG, Xincheng | TBC | Michael Reece |
WANG, Xuechun | TBC | Lei Su |
WANG, Yichen | High entropy ceramic carbides | Michael Reece |
WANG, Yufei | TBC | Lei Su |
XIONG, Wei | Synthesizability and Thermophysical and dielectric Properties of High Entropy Oxides | Michael Reece |
YANES NUNEZ, Eduardo | Frictional Properties of Rubber in Elastomer Seals. | James Busfield |
YU, Xiangyan | TBC | Emiliano Bilotti |
ZHANG, Jiaxin | Microchamber arrays as sensing platform | Gleb Sukhorukov |
ZHANG, Man | Dielectric properties of ferroelectrics at broadband frequency | Haixue Yan |
ZHONG, Muchun | Development of zinc sensitive monolayer modified silicon on sapphire substrates with light-addressable potentiometric sensors | Steffi Krause |
ZHOU, Bo | Ion imaging with light-addressable potentiometric sensors in the investigation of material-cell interactions | Karin Hing |
ZHOU, Yongfeng | Perovskite photonic devices | Lei Su |
PhD Graduates
Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor(s) |
2017 | ||
WHEATLAND, Jonathan | The Investigation of the Fine Scale 3D Characteristics of Sediments Employing Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB-SEM) | Andy Bushby |
CHEN, Bin | Electric Breakdown of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Materials | Federico Carpi, James Busfield |
ZAHABI, Hediyeh | Development of materials and applications for electroactive composites | James Busfield, Federico Carpi |
GAO, Hui | Composite inorganic particles/polyelectrolyte microcapsules: fabrication and application | Gleb Sukhorukov |
ZHAO, Li | Fabrication of non(low) permeable microcapsules and further study | Gleb Sukhorukov, Himadri Gupta |
BAUMARD, Thomas | Fatigue life prediction in aircraft tyres | James Busfield |
ASARE, Eric | SmartNanoHeat - Self-regulating heating compounds | Emiliano Bilotti, James Busfield |
LI, Yan | Nanosynth – In-situ exfoliation of graphene in resins | Emiliano Bilotti, Ton Peijs |
YU, Chuying | The role of high frequency loading in the treatment of tendinopathy | Haixue Yan, Asa Barber |
WU, Guangchang | Predicting tyre compound wear. | James Busfield, Emiliano Bilotti |
2016 | ||
ZHANG, Yi | Biomimetic Layered Nanocomposites with Tunable Dynamical Mechanical Properties: Synthesis, Imaging and Characterisation | Himadri Gupta, Nicola Pugno |
CHANA, Navinderpal | Development of a 3D Perfusion System to Monitor Response of Osteoblast-like Cells Incubated on Synthetic Bone Graft Substitute Granules with Varied Hierarchical Porosities under Dynamic Conditions | Karin Hing |
DONG, Dong | Deformation in small dimensions studied by thin wires in torsion | Andy Bushby, David Dunstan |
LI, Zheng | Room Temperature Single Phase Multiferroics | Haixue Yan, Mike Reece |
MCKINNON, Ruth | Grain Size Effect in Lead-Free Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-based Materials: Exploring The Ferroelectric Behavior | Haixue Yan, Mike Reece |
RAN, Hao | To Fabricate and Study the Properties of the Intelligent Microencapsulated Liquid Particles Containing Biologically Active Compounds | Gleb Sukhorukov |
PATEL, Iffat Fatima | Naturally Inspired Multi-layer Composite Films on Planar and Modulated Surfaces | Gleb Sukhorukov, Ton Peijs |
ZHU, Xiaojing | Processing and switching mechanism of ferroelectric copolymer P(VDF/TrFE) | Mike Reece, Ton Peijs |
CHEN, Kan | Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties of Layered Compound BiCuSO | Mike Reece, Haixue Yan |
HUANG, Menglong | The Strain Dependent Dielectric Behaviour of Carbon Black Filled Natural Rubber | James Busfield, Emiliano Bilotti |
ZHANG, Han | Hybrid CFRP-CNT Micro-nanocomposites with Improved Fracture Toughness and Integrated Damage Sensing Capability. | Ton Peijs, Emiliano Bilotti |
2015 | ||
PICOT, Olivier | Functional Films and Fibres based on Liquid Crystal Coatings | Ton Peijs, Cees Bastiaansen |
CAMPION, Charlie | Enhancing Osteogenesis in Porous Bone Graft Substitutes Through Control of Microporosity | Karin Hing |
CASTAGNA, Viviana | Investigation of Protein Mediated Control of Oteoinductivity in Porous Bone Graft Substitutes using Fluorescent Probes | Karin Hing, Alice Sullivan |
PORWAL, Harshit | Graphene Reinforced Nano-Composites | Mike Reece |
ROMERO NUNEZ, Luz Maria | Electric Field Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition Processes on Titanium Dioxide Thin Films for Photocatalysis | Russell Binions, Mike Reece |
PARISH, Alan | Monitoring of Bone Quality and Penetration in Osteoinductive Scaffolds with Varied Strut Porosity | Karin Hing |
CHEN, Chen | High Temperature Piezoelectric eramics | Mike Reece, Haixue Yan |
TUNNICLIFFE, Lewis | The development of a novel nanostructured silica filler for high friction and low rolling resistance rubber applications. | James Busfield |
LU, Zhengjun | Microfluidics for a novel bioreactor | Wen Wang, Pankaj Vadgama |
JALALI, Nimra | Piezoelectric zincoxide nanostructures for energy harvesting | Steve Dunn, Haixue Yan |
MALHOTRA, Anjum | Low Velocity Edge Impact on Composite Laminates: Damage Tolerance and Numerical Simulations | Mike Reece |
DEO, Devendra Inder | Microcapsule for targetted drug delivery to diseased tissues | Wen Wang, Gleb Sukhorukov |
WANG, Jian | Combined Impedance and Fluorescence Imaging of Polymeric Microcapsules using Photocurrent Measurements at silicon/SAM/electrolyte Field Effect Structures | Steffi Krause |
MAI, Fang | Bio-based All-Polymer Composites: Processing, Structure and Property | Ton Peijs, Emiliano Bilotti |
LOH, Leonard | Enhancement of N-Type Semiconductor Photovoltaics with Multiferroics | Steve Dunn, Mike Reece |
2014 | ||
ASARE, Samuel | Failure of Rubber Components under Fatigue | James Busfield |
SHORTER, Rob | The behaviour of hollow sphere filled rubber materials under strain | James Busfield |
CRUZ BLANCO, Carlos | MPhil: Effect of Temperature in Cathodic Electrodepostion of Anatase TiO2 Films on Conductive Glass | Mike Reece |
LIU, Weizhi | Microcapsule internalization be cells in vitro caused by physical and biochemical stimuli | Gleb Sukhorukov, Wen Wang |
MALHOTRA, Anjum | Low Velocity Edge Impact on Composite Laminates: Damage Tolerance and Numerical Simulations | Mike Reece, Felicity Guild |
KHALIQ, Jibran | Effect of Doping and Defect Structures on Thermo Physical Properties of Thermoelectric Materials | Mike Reece, Haixue Yan |
CHENG, Xiaoyu | Applications of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in exploring materials property-property correlations | Mike Reece |
2013 | ||
KHAN, Rachel Marina | A study of bioreactor surfaces for cell interactions and sensing | Pankaj Vadgama |
CAO, Xu | Investigation into the use of carbon nanotubes networks as gate electrodes in field-effect gas sensors with increased functionality | Steffi Krause |
MILSOM, Ben | The Effect of CNTs on the Sintering Behaviour and Properties of Structural Ceramic Composites | Mike Reece |
RONG, Zimei | Diffusive Mass Transport Studies Using Biosensors | Pankaj Vadgama |
SAKULKAEW, Kartpan | Tearing of rubber | James Busfield |
YI, Qiangying | UV-Triggered Encapsulation and Release by Multilayer Microcapsules | Gleb Sukhorukov |
YAO, Jian | High Performance Electrospun Fibres | Ton Peijs, Cees Bastiaansen |
2012 | ||
CHANG, Hong | Study of protein membranes formed by interfacial crosslinking using microfluidic flow | Pankaj Vadgama, Steve Dunn |
HOTHI, Hardip Singh | The Impact and Deformation of Press-Fit Metal Acetablular Components | Julia Shelton, James Busfield |
PAVLOV, Anton | Multilayer Microcapsules for Delivery, Control and Triggered Release of Bioactive Compounds | Gleb Sukhorukov |
GAO, Zhipeng | Perovskite-Like Layered Structure A2B2O7 Ferroelectrics and Solid Solutions | Mike Reece |
MAFINA, Marc-Krystelle | Novel Fluorescent probes for Analysis of Protein interactions under truly physiological conditions with real Medical devices | Karin Hing |
LOWE, David | Natural Rubber/Organoclay Nanocomposites | James Busfield |
LINKE, Sebastian | Laser scanning system for microscopic and macroscopic investigations of chemical semiconductor sensors | Steffi Krause |
2011 | ||
MA, Jia | Processing of Polymer-based Systems for Improved Performance and Controlled Release | Gleb Sukhorukov, Ton Peijs |
AHMED, Farhat | Multiscale Quantitative Imaging of Human Femoral Heads using X-ray Microtomography | Andy Bushby |
EKERS, Tanya W. | Nanoindentation as a Method to Interrogate the Mechanical properties of Polymer Coatings | Andy Bushby |
THANJAL, Narinderjeet | Optimisation of interfacial bond strength of glass fibre endodontic post systems (MPhil) | Andy Bushby |
NING, Huanpo | Perovskite-like Layered Structure A2B2O7 Ferrlelectrics with Super-High Curie Points | Mike Reece |
WANG, Yiwen | Mechanical and Chemical Modifications of High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage Materials | Xiao Guo, Mike Reece |
2010 | ||
FIANTI, Noor | Going against the Grain: the De-Maturity of the European Textile Industry | Stuart Peters, Mike Reece |
TEZCAKAR, Merve | Techno-economic Transition towards a Hydrogen Economy | Stuart Peters, Mike Reece |
LUO, Jin | Investigtion of the Properties of Dental Cements in Minimal Invasive Restoration | Andy Bushby |
SUPHADON, Nutthanun | Viscoelastic Properties of Elastomer under Complex Loading | James Busfield |
SCHOENLEBER, Monika | Studiesod polymeric membranes modified for application to amperometric H202 and p)2 sensing with needle-type electrodes | Pankaj Vadgama |
VIOLA, Giuseppe | Domain switching dynamics in ferroelastic and ferroelastic/ferroelectric perovskites | Mike Reece |
GABRIEL, Philip | Investigation and Modelling of Rubber Friction | James Busfield |
2009 | ||
HAKIMI, Osnat | Comparative studies of Silkworm and Spider Silk as potential scaffold | Pankaj Vadgama |
GUO, Lei | Novel biosensors and Their application in Mass Transport | Wen Wang, Pankaj Vadgama |
BEDARD, Matthieu | Optically addressable, integrative composite polymer microcapsules | Gleb Sukhorukov |
PETRATOS, Pythagoras | Valuation of nanotechnology using the international private equity and venture capital valuation guidelines and factors influencing it | John Behiri, Mike Reece |
BLASE, Thomas | Development of a Continuous Wire Casting Technique | Mike Reece, Xiao Guo |
ZHU, Tingting | Micrometre-scale plasticity size effects in metals and ceramics theory and experiment | Andy Bushby |
JHA, Vineetkumar | Carbon Black Filler Reinforcement of Elastomers | James Busfield |
CHEN, Li | Investigation into the Sensitivity and Resolution of Scanning Photo-Induced Impedance Microscopy | Steffi Krause |
HAQUE, Feza | Nanoindentation of Polymer and Protein Films (MPhil) | Andy Bushby, Pankaj Vadgama |
INAM, Fawad | Development of Ceramic – Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Nanocomposites | Ton Peijs, Mike Reece |
MOHD DAHAN, Rozana | Processing and characterization of aligned ferroelectric PVDF-TrFE thin films | Mike Reece |
HOU, Xiaodong | Geometrical size effects in the plasticity of metals by micromechanical testing | Andy Bushby |
REHMAN MALIK, Khalil Ur | An examination of innovation and disruptive technology in the medical devices and implant industry (MPhil) | Mike Reece |
2008 | ||
GUTH, Katharina | Mechanisms of the improvced Biological Response with Silicate Substitution in Hydroxy Apatite. | Karin Hing |
BEMBEY, Amanpreet K | Micro-Mechanical Properties and Composite Behaviour of Bone’ | Andy Bushby |
WU, Zhaoyun | Synthesis of nanostructure materials for lithium ion batteries | Mike Reece, Xiao Guo |
YANG, Weina | Syntheses and characterisations of nanostructural magnesium based hydrides for hydrogen storage applications | Mike Reece, Xiao Guo |