Research and innovation

Nanostructured (composite) particle design, synthesis

• Cermet (ceramic-metallic) composites
• Multimaterials
• High-energy mechanical alloying (HE-MA)
• Fluidized bed reactor chemical vapour deposition (FB-CVD)
• Advanced sol-gel technology
• Particle functionalization

Cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) of coatings and 3D architectures

• High-pressure cold spray (HPCS)
• 316L cold spray deposition on Al substrate (sample video)
• Finite element modeling
• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling

Thermal spray coating and repair technology

• High-velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF)
• WC deposition on steel (sample video)

Biocomposites

• Biomass-focused fibre-reinforced polymer composites
• Pultrusion manufacturing of biocomposites
• Biofuel-extracted polymer
• Producing graphene-like carbon from biomass
• Developing high phenolic content bio-oil
• Sustainable fire-resistant materials
• Fire-retardant coatings

Water treatment

• Non-metal doped TiO2 for removal of organic contaminants in wastewater

People

• Dr. Avik Khan (Research Associate/Business Development Officer)
• Kelton Ireland (Post Doctoral Fellow)
• Aisa Grace Custodio (Post Doctoral Fellow)
• Malcolm Edward Dunphy (Lab Operations Manager)
• Jagannadh Sripada (Ph.D. Researcher)
• Divya Nalajala (Ph.D. Researcher)
• Marvin Tolentino (Ph.D. Researcher)
• Arif Alam (Research Engineer)
• Christopher Mackin (Master’s Research Student)
• Disha Bisto (Master’s Research Student)
• Christopher Brown (Master’s Research Student)
• Teck-Ry Looi (Master’s Research Student)
• Farhan Chowdhury Asif (Master’s Research Student)
• Vineeth Menon (Master’s Research Student)
• Afsana Sultana (Master’s Research Student)
• Keshav Palanchu (Master’s Research Student)
• Marc Jason Atega ((Master’s Research Student)
• Songoli Egwuatu (Master’s Research Student)
• Allison Leahy (Undergraduate Research Student)
• Shaghayegh Ghandali (Undergraduate Research Student)
• Minh Do Cao Nguyen (Undergraduate Research Student)
• Aaron Morehouse (Undergraduate Research Student)
• Klara Joy Lindquist (Undergraduate Research Student)
• Sudhish Poojary (Undergraduate Research Student)
• Magnus Guitard (Undergraduate Research Student)
• Rajan Glenn Dalrymple (Undergraduate Research Student)