The Department has a distinguished history of taking innovation through to realisation. For over half a century it has showed the world the way forward in the areas of corrosion, biomedical materials, physical metallurgy, GaN materials, composite materials and computer simulation of materials.
Current spin out companies based on research started in the Department include:
2015 - Paragraf Ltd - Humphreys
2015 - Cambridge Nano Sensors Ltd - Kumar
2012 - CAMSES Ltd - Kumar and Ducati
2010 - CamGan (now part of Plessey) - Humphreys
2008 - Green PB - Kumar
2007 - Inotec AMD - Fray
2006 - FerroEnergy Mathur and Mischenko
2005 - Orthomimetics (now part of Tignenix) - Bonfield, Best and Cameron
2004 - Q-flo - Windle
1989 - CMD Ltd (now part of Accelerys) - Windle
Many technologies have been licensed including:
2016 - Low Drift Thermocouples - Rae and Scervini - https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/case-studies/the-greatest-thermocouple-innovation-in-50-years/
2016 - Lead acid Battery recycling - Kumar - https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/news/eco-friendly-battery-paste-recycling-technology-developed-university-cambridge-licensed-aurelius-environmental/
2011 - Filled CNTS – Morganite - Fray
2009 - Super Bainite Armour – MOD/Tata Steel, Bhadeshia - https://www.army-technology.com/features/featuresuper-bainite-steel-perfection-in-impenetrability-4346392/
2007 - Ultra light Stainless steel sheet – Fibrecore,Clyne
2004 - ElicarbTM Carbon nanotubes – Thomas Swan Co., Windle - http://thomas-swan.co.uk/chemical_products/elicarb-2/
2003 - Hydrogen Sensor – EMC Ltd, Fray
2001 - Metal foam precursors – Cymat/QinetiQ,Clyne
1995 - Rail steel – British Steel, Bhadeshia