Research Areas
Specialists in materials and compounds
- Military and Law Enforcement oriented fabrics, textiles, leathers and flexible polymers with selective performance features as required
- Materials for aviation, automotive and mass transportation, ranging from low density to super-conceptual material components
- Flame retardancy and thermal barrier mechanisms for materials used in space and aeronautical applications through to emergency services
- Hybrid materials generating unique organo-synthetic composites
- Specialised coating systems providing properties such as hyperphobicity, extreme abrasion resistance, thermoregulation and tribological properties
- Unique fibre enhancement chemistries to create novel performance attributes throughout entire fibre structures
- Biofabrication technologies, harnessing the power of nature to build materials that evolution has yet to create
- 3D printing technologies and micro-milling capabilities with optional Finite Element Analysis optimisation to generate specific structural properties