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PhD Projects  

The centre is is involved in all types of research linked with the printing and coating industries.

Current PhD projects

(summaries will become available upon successful completion of final thesis)

  • William Beer - "Printing highly reactive materials"
  • Martyn Cherrington - "Industrialization of printing for PV applications"
  • Chris Chapman - "Physical mechanisms in ink drying"
  • Neil Graddage - "Carbon nano materials as printing materials"
  • Anja Hamblyn - "Plate effects in high quality flexographic printing"
  • Fotios Pelesis - "Coating and ink interactions in printing electronics to paper"
  • Ingmar Petersen - "Parameter effects in screen printed aerials"
  • Ruobo Renn - "Printing of DNA molecules"

Past PhD projects

Submitted 2010

Woan Soo The manufacture of bio scaffolds by printing
Mohd Sallehuddin Yusof   
Georgios Vlachopoulos  

 

 

Submitted 2008

Tim Barden "Fine line reproduction in screen printing"
David Beynon "A study of the effect of plate, substrate and ink interaction on ink transfer in the flexographic printing process."
Davide Deganello "Study of ink release from gravure cells using Neural Networks and CFD simulations"

 

Submitted 2007

John Cherry "Ink Release Characteristics of Anilox Rolls"

 

Submitted 2004

Simon Hamblyn "The Role of the Plate in the Ink Transfer Process in Flexographic Printing"
Christopher Phillips "Print and film deformation during the in-mould decoration process"

 

Submitted 2003

Andrew Clist "Ink transfer in image and non image areas in the rotogravure process"
Ioannis Paikos "An investigation into the cause of print variation during start-up transients in web offset inking systems"

 

Submitted: 2002

Ian J. Fox "Ink Flow Within The Screen-Printing Process"

 

Submitted: 2001

David C. Bould "An Investigation into Quality Improvements in Flexographic Printing"

 

Submitted: 1997

John Thomas Anderson "An investigation Into The Physical Aspects Of the Screen Printing Process"

 

Submitted: 1996

Megat Mohamad Hamdan B. Megat Ahmad "Dot Analysis in Heat Set Web Offset Lithographic Printing"

 

Submitted: 1995

Chong Hooi Lim "An Elastohydrodynamic Behaviour of a Soft Printing Roller Nip"

 

The Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating, School of Engineering, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, UK SA2 8PP
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Last updated on 15/11/10 by: G.R.Davies@swan.ac.uk