Prof Brian Derby
Professor of Material Science
Research interests
- Fundamental aspects of fluid/substrate interactions in ink jet printing.
- Manufacture of structural and functional components by inkjet printing.
- Fabrication of tissue scaffolds by novel 3-Dimensional manufacturing methods.
- Deposition and patterning of living cells and biological molecules by inkjet printing.
- Mechanical properties of nanostructured materials.
- Manufacture of nanostructured materials using nanoporous anodic alumina templates.
- Characterisation of the mechanical properties of tissues using nanoindentation.
- Characterisatio of the mechanical properties of tissues using acoustic microscopy.
Projects
Research and projects
Manchester Bioelectronics Network
Casson, A., Grieve, B., Ozanyan, K., Blanford, C., Cartmell, S., Li, Y., Ballestrem, C., Reid, A., Turner, M., Wong, L. S., Yeates, S., Trimble, E., Jones, C., Scully, P., Holmes, M., Wimpenny, I., Humphrey, B., Turner, M., Dobson, C., Halsall, M., Jones, S., Echtermeyer, T., Wijekoon, J., Curry, R., Picardo, M., Tracey, K., Persaud, K., Migliorato, M., Treves Brown, B., Ozanyan, K., Wright, P., Majewski, L., Hodgson, A., Dudek, P., Gaydecki, P., Morgan, P., Zhang, H., Keavney, B., Brenchley, P., Fields, R., Khan, U., Casiraghi, C., Blaker, J., Saiani, A., Vijayaraghavan, A., Lu, J., Kell, D., Donald, A., Ozols, M., Derby, B., Sharma, J., Mills, E. C., Mohd Nawi, I., Tandon, B., Read, M., Zhu, Q., Ren, L., Waigh, T., Petersen, R., Beach, C., Brown, T., Thomas, A. & Crowe, I.
1/02/18 → 31/07/18
Project: Research
Structural Evolution across multiple time and length scales
Withers, P., Cartmell, S., Cernik, R., Derby, B., Eichhorn, S., Freemont, A., Hollis, C., Mummery, P., Sherratt, M., Thompson, G. & Watts, D.
1/06/11 → 31/05/16
Project: Research