We are currently seeking an outstanding and committed graduate to undertake research in the area of Polymer Composite Structures for Processing Corrosive Fluids. This fully funded PhD position is open to candidates from the UK and EU.

ACG lead, Dr Liu Yang, has been awarded a four year industrial fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering. This fellowship is sponsored by the Weir Group and Weir Advanced Research Centre. He received the award at a ceremony in London in September 2019.

A proposal to develop a cost effective, commercially viable recycling process for wind turbine blades has been awarded funding from the Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub.

Senior lecturer Dr Liu Yang and PhD students Kaibao Wang and Shima Dayarian attended the 1st Conference on Aerogels Inspired Materials, held at Newcastle University in September 2019.

Dr Liu Yang and PhD student Wichain Chailad attended the 2019 International Rubber Conference conference held at the Kia Oval, London at which Wichain gave an oral presentation on his first year PhD studies in the session on friction and erosion of rubber.

Five members of the Advanced Composites Group attended two different conferences held in Portugal. Prof Jim Thomason spoke at the International Conference on Natural Fibres, while a group of post-docs and PhD students presented at the International Conference on Mechanics of Composites.

ACG is pleased to announce that Sairah Bashir has successfully defended her thesis “A Chemical Approach to Regenerating the Performance of Thermally Damaged Glass Fibres”

In March 2019 PhD student Ashlee Espinoza travelled to Santiago, Chile to visit facilities operated by her project funder the Weir Group

Three new PhD students begin their research with us in early 2019; Shima Dayarian, Miguel Ubago Torres and Sheik Malik.

In February 2019 the ACG were kindly given a tour of the facilities at BAMG where routine maintenance of British Airways fleet aircraft is carried out

Prof Thomason reviewed the latest ACG research on the Fibre-Matrix Interfaces in Glass Fibre Composites in an invited paper at the 33rd Şişecam Glass Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey, 2nd November 2018.

Undergraduate student Muzamil Irfan has won a second award for his 4th year research project “Regenerating the strength of thermally recycled fibre reinforcement for reuse in composite applications”. Following an award from IMechE, his work was recognised by the Royal Aeronautical Society as the Best Aeronautical Engineering Project at University of Strathclyde for the 2017-18 academic year.

We are very pleased to welcome new PhD students Georgios Xypolias and Wichain Chailad, who began their studies with the ACG in autumn 2018.

We are currently seeking an outstanding and committed graduate to undertake research in the area of novel aerogel composites. This PhD position is open to UK and EU candidates.

Undergraduate student Muzamil Irfan has been acknowledged for the contribution of his research into “Regenerating the strength of thermally recycled fibre reinforcement for reuse in composite applications” and has received the IMechE sponsored award for the best project of the academic year.

Half a dozen members of the ACG attended and presented their research at the biennial European Conference on Composite Materials. This year’s edition ECCM18 was held in Athens, Greece.

ACG is pleased to announce that Kyle Pender has successfully defended his thesis “Recycling, Regenerating and Reusing Reinforcement Glass Fibres”

The objective of DACOMAT is to develop more damage tolerant and damage predictable low cost composite materials, for use in large load carrying structures such as wind turbine blades, bridges and buildings.

ACG is pleased to announce that Ross Minty has successfully defended his thesis “The Influence of Matrix Stoichiometry on Interfacial Adhesion in Composites for Wind Turbine Applications”

Prof Jim Thomason presented the latest ACG results at the MACH conference in Annapolis, Maryland and the ACMA Composites Recycling Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee

We are pleased to welcome new PhD student Kaibao Wang, who began his studies with ACG in spring 2018

The ACG will begin work in 2018 as part of the Horizon 2020 DaCoMat project. This exciting project represents 5 EU countries, including 1 Independent Research Organisation, 3 Universities and 8 Companies and will cover the full industrial value chain.

We are very pleased to welcome four new PhD students to the ACG: Ashlee, David, Mariusz and Simona began their studies with us in autumn 2017.

As a recipient of a Scottish Crucible 2017 award, Dr Yang attended the Research Awards Reception hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). The evening celebrated a group of leading researchers from across Scotland, who has collectively been granted over £2M in support by RSE.

Second year postgraduate student Sairah Bashir attended the 2017 International Conference on Glass in Prague to present her work on regenerating the strength of thermally damaged glass fibres.

Work to deliver our brand new and significantly expanded composites research laboratory has progressed well during summer 2017.

Glass fibre manufacturing group Chongqing Polycomp International Corporation visited our group to learn more about our facilities and our leading composites research capabilities, with a view to possible future collaboration.

Second year postgraduate student Sairah Bashir has recently been awarded two bursaries to help fund her travel to a conference to present work on strength regeneration of thermally damaged glass fibres

Dr Liu Yang attended the annual UK Subsea Expo in Aberdeen to showcase his team's work on polymer aerogel insulation blankets. This project is a collaboration between our group, Blueshift International Materials Inc and the Oil & Gas Innovation Center.

ACG is pleased to announce that José Luis Rudeiros-Fernández successfully defended his thesis “Improving the Impact Performance of Injection Mouldable Natural Fibres Polyolefin Compounds for Lightweight Automotive Applications”

Fourth year undergraduate student Ross Anderson has been recognised by the IMechE for meritorious performance in his honours research project “Strengthening thermally conditioned glass fibre for composites recycling”