Our Polymer Science and Technology modular course ran from the 29th October to 9th November and was highly successful, with delegates coming from over 20 different organisations. Attendees commented that the course was “very well set up and organised, ran like clockwork” and the presenters delivered “excellent presentations, enthusiastic about subject”. The Polymer Centre offers […]

Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th November 2012 Bradford University is running two, one day courses in polymer engineering. Day 1 introduces participants to the behaviour of polymer melts on their passage through primary polymer conversion processes, and demonstrates how polymer properties change when subjected to different modes of loading. The course is at introductory level […]

May 28 2012, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Richard Noble, project director of the Bloodhound Supersonic Car project, is to deliver the May lecture of the Sheffield Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society, on 28 May at the Knowledge Transfer Centre at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing. The Bloodhound SSC is designed to […]

Nanostructured materials exhibit significantly different properties from their bulk equivalents. This opens the door for materials either for replacement of existing materials (e.g. magnetic material not relying on rare earth elements), or for materials with properties thus far inaccessible, and remarkable new devices.  Metamaterials created by controlling nanostructure can posses negative dielectric permittivity, negative magnetic permeability, or even negative refractive […]

On the 26th-29th August 2012 RAPRA are holding an inaugural international conference and trade event in the US – Global Polymer Innovation Expo.  A pre-event briefing is being held on Tuesday 24th April 2012, 10:30 – 14:30,  at RAPRA’s offices in Telford. The agenda for the day is: Welcome and introduction by Mr Steve Shaw, Operations […]