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Benefitting from strong industrial support and extensive international collaborations, AIM’s research activities have been well recognised in the world.
About
The aim of AIM is to promote industry-driven, interdisciplinary research in material science and engineering in order to provide leading-edge, sustainable solutions to the challenges facing engineers in today’s changing society and environment.
People
The Advanced & Innovative Materials (AIM) Group is located within the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London, and consists of UCL academics and PhD students, plus visiting researchers.
- Academic Staff
Group Leader
Members
- Dr Chanakya Arya
- Dr Peter Domone
- Dr Rodolfo Lorenzo
- Prof Julia Stegemann
- Dr Judith Zhou
- Dr Mingzhong Zhang
- Mr Warren Gaynor
Visiting Professor
- Research Fellows
- Dr Jingbo Yang
- Dr Jianghong Mao
- Olivier Doaré
Visiting Research Fellows
- Dr Yuli Wang
- Prof Xiangguo Li
- Prof Shuhua Liu
- Prof Zuquan Jin
- Dr Miaomiao Gui
- Dr Rongzhen Dong
- Dr Penggang Wang
- Dr Chonggen Pan
- Dr Rui Wang
- Dr Haiyan Ma
Visiting Researchers
- Dr Guojian Liu
- Dr Yanrong Zhang
- Mr Hao Zhang
- Research Students
Alumni
- Dr Min Liu
- Dr Yongliang Liu
- Dr Colum McCague
- Dr Qianmin Ma
- Dr Jun Ren
- Dr Shi Shi
- Dr Junjie Wang
- Dr Yaocheng Wang
- Dr Kai Yang
- Dr Yanfei Yue
Current PhD Students
- Mr Lou Chen
- Mr Guohao Fang
- Mr Cheng Liu
- Ms Shuqiong Luo
- Mr Zhicheng Liu
- Mr Tangwei Mi
- Miss Giulia Trabacchin
- Mr Kaan Ucak
- Miss Danqian Wang
- Miss Yi Wang
- Mr Siyu Yang
- Mr Hui Zhong
Research themes in AIM
The research themes are:
- Novel, low-carbon and low-energy cementitious materials
- Advanced composite materials
- Rheology of novel cement and concrete
- Durability of concrete structures
- Structural health monitoring
- Nuclear waste immobilisation
Collaboration
- Academic
- Industry
- Institute of Concrete Technology, U.K.
- The Concrete Society, U.K.
- Mineral products association, U.K.
- British Precast Concrete Federation, U.K.
- Institute of Materials, Minerals and Minding, U.K.
- National Nuclear Laboratory, U.K.
- Amphora NDT, U.K.
- Constructing Futures Ltd, U.K.
- COMSOL Ltd, U.K.
- GAMA Microwave Technology Ltd, U.K.
- Highways England
- Industrial Microwave Systems Ltd, U.K.
- Industrial Research Ltd, New Zealand
- Macrete Ltd, U.K.
- Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, U.K.
- Sengenia Ltd, U.K.
- Chongqing Institute of Building Technology, China
- Research Institute of High Performance Concrete, CRIBC, China
- Tianjin Institute of Building Technology, China
Facilities
- Equipment for concrete
- Mortar Mixer (Hobart)
- Carbonation Chamber (LEEC)
- Thermostatic Cabinet (Controls)
- Vicamatic (Controls)
- DT300- Zeta Potential (Dispersion Technology Instruments)
- MCR302 Rheometer for Paste/Mortar (Anton Paar)
- Rheometer for Concrete
- PM 100 Ball Mill (Retsch)
- MK II Chloride Analyzer (Sherwood)
- Advantest 9 Flexural Frame (Controls)
- JET-S-1000C Universal Tester (JetMaterials)
- Pillar Drill
- MHTO350 Microwave Oven (IMS)
- Solid-state SS500 Microwave Oven (IMS)
- Solid-state SS1200 Industrial Microwave Oven (IMS)
- Water Bath
- KMF 240 Climate Chamber (BINDER)
- Freeze Dryer (Telstar)
- Equipment for characterisation
- Discovery V8 Microscope (CARL ZEISS)
- G3 Morphology system (Malvern Instrument)
- 200 HPLC (Perkin Elmer)
- Dionex 1100 Ion Chromatography (Dionex)
- 3R Centrifuge (AccuSpin)
- S47 pH Conductivity Meter (Mettler Toledo)
- Model M550 Double Beam Scanning UV / Visible Spectrophotometer (Camspec)
- Rotary Evaporator (Buchi)
- Rotary Evaporator (Made in house)
- Hydraulic Conductivity Panel (Wykeham Farrance)
- Isothermal Conduction Calorimeter (TAM Air)
- TG209 F1 Libra (Netzesch)
- ACM Instruments
- Raman Spectrometer (CRANN)
Publications
To access publications from AIM's academics and researchers, please visit their IRIS profiles.
- Prof Yun Bai
- Dr Chanakya Arya
- Dr Peter Domone
- Dr Rodolfo Lorenzo
- Prof Julia Stegemann
- Dr Judith Zhou
- Dr Mingzhong Zhang