Functional Materials and Composites Research Group

Research activities of the  FMC group currently focus  investigation and physical property characterisation of functional materials derived from martensitically transforming shape memory alloys, particularly superelastic NiTi for medical devices and high temperature actuators for automotive and aerospace applications, structures made of  functional materials as functional textiles with NiTi filaments, metal-polymers composites and electroactive polymers combined with NiTi.