Prof Brian Derby

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.

Other research

Research Institutes

• Photon Science
• UMARI