Microstructure Engineering
The functionality and performance of many fast-moving consumer goods and speciality products can be affected by their structure at the microscale. To improve product performance, our research focuses on the assembly of innovative microstructures, the design of novel processes for their manufacture and the development of cutting-edge techniques for their characterisation.
Our areas of expertise
• Soft matter
• Design/Manufacture of emulsions
• Formulation of fluid gels
• Lithography materials
Meet our academic members
Meet our academic members
Tribology; Material science; Rheology; Powders; Human skin research
Ceramics processing; Additive manufacturing; Investment casting
Food manufacture; Surface cleaning; Hygiene; Interfacial behaviour
Rheology; Zeta potential; Suspensions
Mathematical modelling; Numerical optimisation; Data-driven formulation engineering; Food processing
3D-printing; Tribology; Product performance
Sustainable food processing; Healthier processed food; Circular economy; LCA
Soft materials; Micro-structural design; Healing
EUV lithography; Photoresist; Nanofabrication
Multiscale materials; Spraying; Injection; Therapeutic polysaccharides; Translation
Emulsions; Pickering stabilisation; Soft solids; Microstructure performance; Encapsulation and release
Emulsions; Interfaces; Rheology; Sustainable food microstructure engineering; Food texture
Colloids; Surface and interface; Bio-based and bio-derived materials; Coatings
Microencapsulation; Characterisation of microparticles; Microplastic-free delivery systems; Controlled release and targeted delivery
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Centre for Formulation Engineering
Developing solutions to global problems in the food, pharmaceutical, biotechnological, consumer goods and speciality products sectors.