Industry
Materials & Manufacturing
Materials discovery and production optimisation, from molecular simulation through to the factory floor.
Problems we address
- Candidate materials spaces too large to screen experimentally at any realistic budget
- Simulation runs that answer the question after the design decision was taken
- Production scheduling under constraints that change shift to shift
- Quality data collected diligently and used for nothing
How we approach it
Related research
Maturity labels are not decoration. Most of this is at concept stage.
High-Entropy Alloys for Aerospace
Simulation of alloy composition, phase stability, defects and aerospace material performance.
Programmable Matter & Smart Polymers
Molecular self-assembly, phase transitions and stimuli-responsive polymer design.
Quantum-Encrypted Materials Databases
Consortium members want to pool materials data without exposing their own pipeline, and trust-plus-a-contract does not scale across parties who are collaborators and competitors at once. We are looking at quantum-resistant schemes for confidentiality that has to outlast current cryptography. Stated plainly: most of this is a governance problem wearing a cryptography costume, and we would want to argue the answer is boring standard cryptography before agreeing that it is not.
Quantum Simulations for Molecular Design
Electronic-structure and molecular-interaction simulation for candidate design and screening.
Hypersonic Aerodynamics
Shock, thermal and high-speed flow simulation and geometry optimisation. The live route is misspelled “ypersonic”.
Quantum-Enhanced Turbulence Modeling
Turbulence is the canonical unsolved problem of classical physics, and every practical method models the small scales rather than resolving them — the modelled part is where the error lives. We are testing whether quantum representations can carry sub-grid correlation directly rather than approximating its effect. The bar is a canonical benchmark flow first, then a Reynolds number where classical models are known to degrade. We are at the first, not the second.