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Advanced Healthcare Materials and Manufacturing

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We are developing advanced functional materials, biomaterials and medical devices for use in healthcare. We utilise state-of-the-art bioprinting and additive manufacturing technologies that can produce high-precision and customised output. We are also developing sustainable alternatives to the plastic materials used in healthcare.

  • Our areas of expertise

    • Biomaterials science

    • Soft matter

    • Medical devices

    • Sustainability in healthcare

    • Sterilisation of advanced materials

    • Scar reduction technologies, wound repair and regeneration, dermatology, burns, drug discovery

Meet our academic members

Biomaterials; Hydrogels; Nanomaterials; Calcium Phosphates; Bioprinting

Additive manufacturing; Medical devices; Skeletal implants; Biomaterials

Physiologically relevant extracellular matrix surrogates; Cell-material interactions; in vitro tissue models

Regenerative medicine; Functional materials; Sustainability; Electrospinning; Sterilisation

Biomaterials; Bone; Scarring; Soft matter; Ceramics

Wound healing; Scarring; Fibrosis; Growth factors; Apoptosis

Micro-structural engineering; Soft materials; Bio-responsive

Miniaturised device technologies; Point-of-care diagnostics; Biomedical engineering; Bionano-sensors; Disease detection

Microbiology; Bioprocessing; Biofilms; Antibiotic resistance; Microbial physiology

Multiscale materials; Spraying; Injection; Therapeutic polysaccharides; Translation

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