Fabrication—making things—is a fundamental human endeavour. Natural curiosity and innate creativity underpins and drives our fabrication research on Sensors, Optical Devices, Manufacturing, and Micro and Nano Systems.

Within these areas, we produce materials, devices and machines to address global challenges such as health and wellbeing, and energy use. Our innovative sensors can be used to detect gaseous compounds as part of cutting-edge medical diagnostics. We develop microfluidic devices that can be used for tailored drug delivery, and micro and nano systems that can be used as biomedical probes or for energy harvesting. Conductive polymers can be synthesised with our new flame spraying techniques. Greater understanding of life-cycle energy flows from our novel modelling approaches can help to improve energy-efficiency in automotive and aerospace manufacturing.

The fabrication theme draws in traditional and diverse engineering activities to create truly interdisciplinary research that can address emerging challenges for industry and society. We have strong research collaborations with global industry leaders in the biomedical, energy, automotive and aerospace sectors. Explore the individual research area pages to find out more.

Explore our available research projects below and if you’d like to discuss opportunities for collaboration or funding, please email us.