Thermal Management
Hallam Energy has expertise in heat transfer and thermal design, and has successfully applied their knowledge to help companies improve their products and processes and achieve a competitive advantage
Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry
Mercury porosimetry analysis is the progressive intrusion of mercury into a porous structure under controlled pressures. From the pressure versus intrusion data, the instrument generates volume and size distributions using the Washburn equation.
Fire retardant unsaturated polyester nanocomposites
The ability of well-dispersed organomodified clays to enhance the fire retardency of thermoplastic polymers is well established, but thermoset polyester has received relatively little attention
Simulation of Supramolecular Structures
Using the same types of simulation on other choices of simple particle systems, we have developed a specific expertise in observing the development of soft triply-periodic structures such as the Gyroid
Computer Simulation of Liquid Crystals
We have extensive experience of simulating liquid crystalline behaviour at a range of length-scales. At a molecular scale, we have developed a particular expertise in mixture systems and in anchoring at patterned substrates
Thermal Management
Hallam Energy has expertise in heat transfer and thermal design, and has successfully applied their knowledge to help companies improve their products and processes and achieve a competitive advantage
PVD coating equipment
A Hauzer HTC 1000-4/ ABS (Arc Bond Sputter) coating unit is housed in the laboratory based at the NTCPVD. This unit is primarily a research, development and pilot production machine
Contact Angle Measurement
The contact angle is the angle which is formed at the three-phase interface between a solid, a liquid drop and air or another gas. Such measurements can be used to determine wettability, which provides an indication of how effectively a liquid will spread over a surface.
Innovation through KTP leads to creation of specialist sister company
Rotherham-based PMS Diecasting were keen to explore how they could improve their own capability in tool-making, thus reducing their dependence – and its associated problems – on external suppliers
Dr Iain Fielden
Research Consultant at Sheffield Hallam University's Materials and Engineering Research Institute