RC 4 - Process
How can we integrate synthesis, screening and manufacturing processes to shorten the development and translation pipeline so that we can 'dial up' materials and properties?
Leading Team: Richard Hague (Lead) and Alastair Florence (Co-Lead)
AIM: Integration of materials screening, characterisation and deposition for rapid deployment of pharmaceutical, regenerative medicine and biocatalysis functional devices. Connecting rapid synthesis, formulation, screening and digital manufacture of raw materials within a new integrated toolkit will enable us to exploit the advantages of 3DPand expedite the manufacture of industry-identified advanced functional exemplar devices. We will investigate, adapt and integrate the systems necessary for the selection, production and post processing of materials, exploiting expertise of UoN, Strathclyde, CPI and CSIRO in rapid synthesis, formulation and evaluation whilst integrating them with the deposition systems available at UoN. Coordinating with Materials, we will first investigate methods for rapidly building libraries of candidate materials and create screening systems to allow the rapid identification of their printability. With Design, candidate materials will be selected by ‘printability’ and ‘curability’ parameters for the three primary techniques selected due to their potential for multi-material deposition, relevance to our exemplar products and high potential for scalable manufacture: inkjet printing, reactive jetting and pµSLA/ SLA.
Investigators team: Richard Hague (Lead), Alastair Florence (Co-Lead), Ricky Wildman, Chris Tuck, Yinfeng He, Lyudmila Turyanska, and Derek Irvine
Research Fellows: Simon Attwood