Sustainable Construction Materials

Nanofactory’s expert research teams specialise in offering opportunities to construction businesses to help them adopt fast-track innovation, through investigations on a wide range of advanced materials that will offer new possibilities in this sector.

Working as a Yorkshire & Humber-based cluster, Nanofactory has a strong collective research base, enabling businesses to adopt new advanced, smart construction materials, which address the new challenges of durability and the drive to build in greener ways to help meet government CO2 emission targets.

The Leeds lab has particular expertise and experience in this field, developing a variety of construction materials - from polymers, cement, concrete, coatings [for example in glass helping to increase its insulative properties] metals, to textiles. Both the Sheffield and Leeds labs are also noted for their successful track record in civil engineering. 

Construction companies who work in partnership with the Nanofactory teams benefit from these added value technologies in many ways. For example, in cement research, teams are working at atomic level to enhance the properties of this widely-used material to increase its mechanical strength.

As well as pioneering such smart user-friendly materials, the Nanofactory teams provide businesses with individually-tailored help to explore how micro & nano technologies can create new commercial avenues, applied expertise support through stages of the product supply chain, from concept to commercialisation, and partnership opportunities for collaborative funding.

 

Team Members

Contact Details

Dr Sean Kelly
T: 0113 343 2571
E: s.m.kelly@leeds.ac.uk


 


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