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Faculty of Health and
Medical Sciences:
Materials and Nanoscience Theme
Dr Sub Reddy (Theme Coordinator)
[email protected]
• 18 academic members in theme
• Dedicated web pages with up-to-date research in
Materials and Nanoscience in FHMS
• Regular meetings of Theme members
– Discuss upcoming research calls and bids (EU FP7
and EPSRC have specific calls and initiatives in
Smart Materials, Fuels and Nanotechnology)
Hot topics
• Nanotechnology for
harvesting energy
– Nanocatalysts (e.g.
alkaline anion
exchange
membranes for fuel
cells)
• Exposure scenarios
to nanoparticles
– Drug delivery /
terrorist attacks
Hot topics
Molecularly Imprinting Polymers…
selective protein recognition
5
0.8
Mass (ng/mm 2)/Thickness (nm)
4.5
0.75
4
0.7
3.5
0.65
3
0.6
2.5
0.55
2
0.5
1.5
0.45
MIP 2
Injection 1
1
7500
Density (ng/mm 3)
• Biomimetic gels and
polymers for molecular
recognition/biosensors
8000
8500
MIP 2
Injection 2
9000
9500
10000
10500
0.4
11000
Time (secs)
Thickness
• Nanomedicine: fighting
cancer using polymer-drug
conjugates
Targeting units
Mass
Layer Density
Other modifiers (solubility,
pharmacokinetics, etc)
Degradable
linker
Polymer
Drug
Researchers
•John Varcoe
Global Threats to
Security / Exposure
Scenarios /Biomedical
Sensing
•Peter Slater
•Brendan Howlin
Energy
•Bob Slade
•Johnjoe McFadden
Nanotoxicology
•Angela Namor
•Shirley Price
• John Hay
•Geoff Hunt
•Mike Hughes
•Shirley Price
•Sub Reddy
Nanomedicine/
Biomimetic gels
and polymers
•Mark Baker
•Gabriel Cavalli
•John Hay
•Sub Reddy
•Dmitry Stetsenko
•Ian Hamerton
Synergies with CNSI’s
Research Thrust Groups
• Energy Efficient Technologies
• Nanobiotechnology: Biomedical Sensing,
Diagnosis and Therapy
• Environment and Nanotoxicology