The NanoDTC has relationships with a number of companies working in the Nanotechnology Space, including Hitachi, Cambridge Display Technologies, NPL, TTP, Oxford Instruments and several others. A more complete list is given below.

Industry partners are involved in joint PhD projects as well as delivering lectures and seminars to our students, eg as part of our training on Nurturing and Managing Innovation in Science and Nano Innovation Seminar series.

Industry Partners are also involved in the chain of translating our research to technologies, through active engagement with our Translational Prize Fellows and Startups founded by our students and alumni.

New Industry Partners

We welcome new industry partners to work with us. This can be via joint PhD projects or through membership of our NanoDTC Industry Forum for exposure to the latest in nanoscience research through events, or for engaging with our pool of talented researchers for recruitment purposes.

Please contact Dr. Karishma Jain for more information.

Current PhD projects involving industry partners include:

The list of Partners who supported our 2018-19 CDT funding bid for 40 studentships from UKRI (in alphabetical order) includes:

  1. Aixtron Ltd
  2. Applied Materials Inc
  3. ARM Ltd
  4. Britvic Soft Drinks
  5. Cambridge Display Technology Ltd
  6. Centre for Process Innovation
  7. Defence Science & Tech Lab DSTL
  8. Deregallera Ltd
  9. Eight19 Ltd
  10. Emberion Limited
  11. Fluidic Analytics
  12. Hitachi Europe Ltd
  13. IBM Research GmbH
  14. Johnson Matthey
  15. Knowledge Transfer Network Ltd
  16. Merck
  17. Mursla Ltd
  18. National Physical Laboratory
  19. Nokia UK Limited
  20. Oxford Instruments plc
  21. Oxford Nanopore Technologies
  22. Sabic Europe
  23. Samsung Electronics Research Laboratory
  24. Schlumberger Gould Research
  25. Sorex Sensors Ltd
  26. SuNAM Co. Ltd
  27. Talga technologies ltd
  28. The Technology Partnership Plc
  29. The Welding Institute
  30. Toshiba Research Europe Ltd