Our facilities

We have a continuous programme of infrastructure refurbishment to ensure that our research is not only competitive internationally, but leading internationally. In the last three years we have made significant investment in new infrastructure and equipment totally £8.5m. Facilities include:

• Advanced Electron Optics for nano-scale materials characterization
• Preparative facilities for making and characterizing particulate systems for a wide range of technological materials
• Facilities for advance fuel characterization
• Pilot scale combustion systems
• Facilities for advanced environmental monitoring and pollution control
• Advanced energy systems including fusion cells and a combustion CAP suite