Dr Kim Alderson, The University of Bolton
Dr Kim Alderson has worked
in the field of auxetic materials since 1989, when she joined
Ken Evan’s group at the University of Liverpool. Since
then, she has worked on developing processing routes for auxetic
polymers and is the coholder of 2 patents on producing auxetic
cylinders and auxetic polymeric fibres, and on determining
the mechanical properties of auxetic polymers and composites.[Publications]
Professor Andy Alderson
Centre for Materials Research and Innovation, The University of Bolton, Deane Road, Bolton BL3 5AB, Tel: +44 (0) 1204 903513, Email: A.Alderson@bolton.ac.uk
Professor Andy Alderson received his BSc (Honours) in physics in 1987 and his Doctorate in physics in 1991 from the University of Liverpool, UK. From 1992-1995 he was a Research Associate at Liverpool working on theoretical investigations into auxetic materials. His research into auxetic materials continued during 1995-1998 when he was a Research Associate in the Advanced Materials team at BNFL, where he also undertook research into conductive polymers. He joined the University of Bolton in 1998 and was the Acting Head of the Centre for Materials Research and Innovation at Bolton from January to October 2003. He is the Technical Director of the University spin-out company Auxetic Technologies Ltd. He chairs the Steering Group of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)-funded Auxetic Materials Network (AuxetNet – www.auxetnet.org.uk), has served on three EPSRC Structural Materials panels and is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College for 2003-present. He is a member of the Management Committee of the newly-created Northwest Composites Centre involving the universities of Bolton, Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster in the UK. He has published over 80 papers, 5 review articles and 3 patent applications, and regularly delivers invited seminars on auxetic materials to industry, academia, conferences and schools. The auxetic materials group at Bolton have research interests and on-going activities into auxetic microporous polymers, fibres, films, cellular solids, composites, thermal materials, and nanomaterials. Experimental and theoretical methodologies are employed to develop auxetic materials for a range of potential applications including filtration, energy absorption, drug-delivery and medical devices.[Publications]
The group at The University of Bolton consists of Drs Kim and Andy
Alderson and 5 PhD students, plus input from 1 research assistant
and 1 postdoctoral researcher, who is an expert in the technical
textiles field, which is a particular strength of Bolton in
terms of expertise and equipment. The group has attracted
funding for its auxetics activities from EPSRC, the Nuffield
Foundation, Proctor and Gamble and Bolton and Bury Chamber’s
Business Link plus support from Hexcel, Univar plc, DuPont
and BNFL.
The group has published 37 peer review journal and conference
papers, 4 invited reviews and 3 patent applications in the
field of auxetics. Dr Kim Alderson and one of the group PhD
students were finalists in the British Female Inventor of
the Year 2002 with their invention of auxetic fibres.0
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Prof Ken Evans and Dr Chris Smith, University of Exeter
Prof. Ken Evans is Head of the Materials and Process Engineering
Research Group, Director of Exeter Advanced Technologies and
Head of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at
the University of Exeter. He was appointed to the Chair of
Materials Engineering, at Exeter University, in July 1994.
Prior to that he held the post of Reader in the Department
of Materials Science and Engineering at Liverpool University.
From Oct 1989 to Oct 1994 he was also an EPSRC Advanced Fellow.
From 1981 to 1983 he was a senior Research Scientist at ICI.
In 1993 he received the Leslie Holliday prize of the Institute
of Materials for his research into novel materials.
Throughout this period his research activities have been
concerned with microstructure, its evolution during processing
and its effect on mechanical properties. For the last ten
years Prof. Evans’ research has concentrated on auxetic
materials and structures. This work has led to three patents
with industrial funding in excess of £1 million from
companies including BNFL, ICI, MOD, Proctor & Gamble,
WL Gore Inc, Guidant and Dow Corning, with a wide range of
potential applications currently under consideration. He has
published over 130 refereed journal and conference papers.
Dr Chris Smith is a Lecturer
in the Department of Engineering at the University of Exeter.
He has interests in both the modeling and experimental measurement
of auxetic materials and in biomimetics. His work on natural
auxetic materials (e.g. certain types of skin and bone) has
been sponsored by ICI and the EPSRC and he has 4 publications
in the field of auxetics. [Publications]
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Prof Geof Tomlinson, University of
Sheffield
Prof Geof Tomlinson’s interests in auxetic materials
are threefold. Firstly, he is interested in damping coatings
where one can invoke the orthotropic properties due to auxetic
behaviour. He is also investigating the ability to control
the geometric behaviour at a molecular level so that energy
dissipation properties can be modified by having control of
the nanostructural geometries, and in the impact behaviour
of auxetics.
Dr Fabrizio Scarpa, Bristol University
Dr Fabrizio Scarpa obtained a MEng in Aeronautical Engineering and a PhD in Machine Design at the Politecnico of Torino, Italy. In 1997 he joined the Dynamics Research Group at the University of Sheffield to work in the field of negative Poisson's ratio materials for vibroacoustic applications. He then became Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Sheffield working as Aerospace Departmental Coordinator and International Student Exchange Officer. He joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering in Bristol in 2005.
His research activities span the field of auxetics (foams and honeycombs), shape memory alloy honeycombs, smart multifunctional cellular solids, viscoelasticity and structural-acoustic coupling. Dr Scarpa is Principal Investigator in EPSRC, European Framework 6, Transfer Technology partnerhips and DTI projects, working also in International Collaboration projects with US Army ARO and Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr Scarpa is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and features in the Editorial team of the Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology Journal.
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Dr Steve Moratti, University of Cambridge
Dr Steve Moratti’s research is into synthesis of novel
materials and polymer architectures and the structure property
relationships of these materials. Specific topics have included
optoelectronic materials and auxetic materials, where his
experience in controlling polymer architecture is of prime
importance.
His auxetic materials work has been sponsored by EPSRC through
a ROPA and Raychem. He has 1 PhD student in the area of auxetics.[Publications]
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John House of QinetiQ
An experienced physicist specialising in noise and vibration
research and a Member of the Institute of Acoustics. He joined
the Ministry of Technology in February 1968 at the Royal Aircraft
Establishment at Farnborough, working as a scientific assistant
in the weapons department. In February 1969 he transferred
to the Ministry of Defence at the Admiralty Materials Laboratory,
Holton Heath carrying out research into polymeric materials
for the reduction of noise signatures of RN ships and submarines.
He studied physics at Bournemouth College of Technology, gaining
HNC in Applied Physics in 1973 and then Supplementary Studies
in Applied Physics in 1974. He was promoted to Principal Scientific
Officer in 1989 and became a section leader, leading the technical
aspects of many MoD research programmes. More recently he
has been involved with adapting MoD related research to the
needs of the civilian world particularly in the field of environmental
noise and pedestrian safety. He is currently the QinetiQ/FST
Technology Chief for Vibroacoustic Materials at Farnborough
leading both MoD and Non MoD technical programmes and involved
with marketing the research and bidding for work both at home
and abroad.
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Dr. Ian Moss of Dow Corning
Dr. Ian Moss is manager of external contracts and sponsored
research for Dow Corning Corporation's Advance Technologies
and Ventures Business and is based at their site in Barry,
South Wales. He has an MA in Chemistry from the University
of Oxford and a PhD in synthetic inorganic chemistry from
the University of Exeter. He joined Dow Corning Ltd. in 1995
from Aldrich Chemicals and has held a number of positions
in R&D management within the company. He has extensive
experience in R&D management both at a strategic and project
management level. Ian is a director of Auxetix Ltd., a spin-out
from the University of Exeter in which the University and
Dow Corning are shareholders.
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Dr Joseph Grima
Dr Joseph Grima is a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry
at the University of Malta. He has worked in the field of
auxetic materials since 1996, when he joined the research
group of Professor Evans at the University of Exeter. He is
particularly interested into the analytical and/or molecular
modelling of micro/nano structured materials and the relationships
between the internal structure and the macroscopic properties
of these materials. His publications on auxetic materials
include papers on macrostructures, foams, organic networks
and zeolites.
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Professor Anne Neville
Anne Neville (AN), is a EPSRC Advanced Fellow and she joined
the Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering as a
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in September 1995 having
completing her PhD at the University of Glasgow. In the last
7 years she has built up a research group comprising 24 researchers
(5 PDRAs) through a range of collaborative links within and
outwith the University. She was awarded an EPSRC (fast track)
grant (GR/L74163) in October 1997 and a further two in the
same area of lubrication engineering in 2000 (GR/N12541 and
GR/R12497). She has also attracted a range of other research
funding including the Royal Society and a number of industrial
companies (to in excess of £2.5M). She was promoted
to Reader in October 1999 and to Professor in August 2002.
She has published over 120 papers on corrosion and surface
engineering related topics [e.g.1-10]. Her work is focused
in the field of corrosion and surface engineering particularly
stressing the application of advanced structural techniques
such as Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), Environmental Scanning
Electron Microscope (ESEM), X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
(XPS), and Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS)
spectroscopy. She has also been addressing fundamental issues
involving mechanical and electrochemical interactions under
tribo-corrosion conditions on metallic materials and on novel
ceramic/metal systems. She was awarded the Makdougall-Brisbane
prize from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in October 2000
for ‘an outstanding contribution to engineering science’.
In May 2001 she was awarded the Guy Bengough prize from the
Institute of Materials for her contribution to the corrosion
literature. In April 2002 she delivered a Keynote lecture
at the Additives 2003 conference entitled ‘Lubricant-surface
interactions and their importance in optimising tribological
systems to operate in boundary lubrication’ where her
work in the lubricant additives field and vision for future
research (as proposed here) were presented.
In Nov 2003 she takes up the Chair in Tribology and Surface
engineering at the University of Leeds.
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