Experts in Advanced materials
Professor Phil Coates
Professor of Polymer Engineering
Expertise: Advanced materials, polymers, healthcare technology
Dr Stephen Hickey
Reader in the Faculty of Life Sciences
Expertise: Nano dots, colloidal nanoparticle synthesis, size-related optical properties (absorbance, emission), surface modification, assembly and charge transport of and within nanoparticles, applications of NPs for clean energy production, sensors, catalysis etc.
Professor Raj Patel
Head of Chemical Engineering
Expertise: Chemical engineering, polymers, metals production, water desalination using reverse osmosis, biodiesel production