Prof Brian Derby

Professor of Material Science

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Materials Engineering, Department of Materials
Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, School of Social Sciences
Dalton Nuclear Institute, FSE Research Institutes

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ORCID: 0000-0001-5753-0166

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My current and recent PhD students are studying the following projects:

Fundamental Aspects of inkjet printing; Inkjet Printing of mammalian Cells; Fabrication and Application of Ordered Aluminum Oxide Nanopores; Mechanical Properties of Gold Nanostructures; Fabrication and Properties of Silver Conductors by direct-Write methods; Biomedical Inkjet Printing.

There are apportunities for PhD projects in the following research areas: Drop interactions during inkjet printing, Inkjet printing ceramics, Biosensors and nanostructured sensors, Inkjet printing hybrid cell-containing materials and structures, Mechanical properties of nanostructured materials, Mechanical properties of brittle materials.