Materials and Manufcaturing Network

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Materials and Manufcaturing Network

• Andy Rankin (Kingston University)

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Materials and Manufcaturing Network

• Network colleagues also attending
• Stella Bignold (Kingston)
• Peter Allan (Brunel)
• Karnik Tarverdi (Brunel)
• Ediz Cetin (Westminster)
• Network co-ordinator

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Participants

• Multidisciplinary group of some 25 materials
  scientists, earth scientists, chemists,
  physicists and engineers from FOUR universities
  within the Westfocus consortium
• Brunel (2 projects)
• Kingston (2 projects)
• Royal Holloway (1 project )
• Westminster (1 project)

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Aims and Scope

• Synthesis and formulation of functional materials
  
• Biomaterials
• Earth Materials
• Advanced analytical techniques for materials 
  characterization
• Materials processing and fabrication at macro-,
  micro- and nano-levels
• Innovative materials design in electronics and
  other applications

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Main projects

• Commercial facilities for microanalysis, micro
  imaging and testing of materials.
• Recycling of, and re-cycled materials
• New Electronic, Bio- and Smart materials
• Materials processing and packaging
• Development of new equipment and methods and
  Image Processing for GEM stone analysis
  (e.g.digital signal processor)

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Review of the past 12 months

• Activities and Outcomes

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Examples of recent external network activities

• European Signal Processing Conference
  (Westminster)
• Polymer Process Engineering Conference, Boston
  (Brunel )
• Mineralogical Society Micro to Nano Conference,
  Bath (Kingston , Royal Holloway)
• International Gem and Mineral Fair, Arizona
  (Kingston )
• GemA International Conference, London (Kingston )
• Int Conf on Synthetic Metals, Dublin (Kingston)
• Workshop on Patterned Organic Conductors,
  Manchester (Kingston)

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Review of the past 12 months

• Issues
• Change of Network Co-ordinator
• Concerns over future and funding of the
  network(s) and Westfocus

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Outline of the next 12 months

• Planned work programme
• Still Largely project based
• A confederation rather than a network?
• Underfunding of some existing projects
• Interaction with external groups
• Objectives and purpose?
• Network events (conference/courses) planned
• Fit with HEIF metrics
• Income generation will figure largely in most
  projects
• Contracts/consultancies/analytical services
• Income from patents/licenses
• KTPs