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Energy and Environmental Nanomaterials Research
Cranfield has a proven track record of nanotechnology research, with extensive expertise across its strategic themes of energy, environment, manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, healthcare, security and defence.
Energy and Environmental Nanomaterials Research
Professor Robert Dorey, Chair in Nanomaterials, r.a.dorey@cranfield.ac.uk
Personal energy generation
Local power generation solutions including thermoelectric generation from waste and solar heat, solid oxide fuel cells and piezoelectric harvesting from vibrations.
Environmental and structural health monitoring
Uses of nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing to enable sensors for structural health and environmental monitoring.
Environmentally-friendly nano & micro manufacturing
Nano and microscale synthesis and additive manufacturing techniques that minimise energy, material and chemical usage.
Fate of nanomaterials
Risk assessment approaches for manufactured nanomaterials and their suitability, as well as the risk associated with emerging nanotechnologies.
Specialist postgraduate courses
- Microsystems and Nanotechnology
- Advanced Materials
- Ultra Precision and Nanoengineering
- Nanomedicine
- Environmental Risk Management
Continuing professional development & short courses
- Applied Nanotechnology
- Nano and Microtechnologies for Energy
- Nano & Microscale Rapid Prototyping
- Surface Engineering & Coatings
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