MARS (Material Analysis & Research Services CIC)

New materials can play a pivotal role in giving companies a business edge, but specialised Materials R&D is beyond the financial reach of most small and medium-size enterprises. To help businesses get more from the world-class research taking place in the region’s universities a Centre of Industrial Collaboration (CIC) has been established: the Yorkshire Forward Materials Analysis and Research Services CIC.

Based at Sheffield Hallam University (the highest-rated materials department in the new Universities sector), the CIC has developed new production techniques and research methods whilst pioneering innovations such as biopolymers with novel corrosion inhibition properties and photochromic materials that can store information.

The CIC helps solve clients’ technical, design, product development and production problems, providing everything from the provision of standard test facilities to full-scale contract research programmes. Its expertise has had particular benefits to the aerospace and automotive sectors, and to those producing medical devices or surface coating, polymers and plastics.

Services include:

• Corrosion Science and Engineering - focusing on localised corrosion, environmental-assisted cracking, anti-corrosion performance of coating systems and atmospheric corrosion.
• Surface Engineering - using combined cathodic arc/unbalanced magnetron deposition methods to deposit hard coatings.
• Polymer, Composites and Surfaces - supporting the development of composites and cements.
• Materials Modelling - developing new simulation methods and techniques to predict the behaviour, properties and processing of materials. 

Download the Materials Analysis & Research Services CIC brochure or for more information on how the Materials Analysis & Research Services CIC can help you, contact:

Yorkshire Forward Materials Analysis & Research Services CIC
Sheffield Hallam University,
Howard Street,
Sheffield S1 1WB
Contact Nicholas Farmilo

t: +44 (0)114 225 4078
f: +44 (0)114 225 3501
e: n.farmilo@shu.ac.uk
w: www.marscic.co.uk