Matt Whittingham 

Technical Specialist

Matt is a Technical Specialist working across the Banks Research Group, PrintCity commercial and academic projects. An alumni of the university with a MSc (Industrial Digitalisation) and a BEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering); he is passionate about pushing the boundaries of AM materials and technology, and increasing the public’s exposure to sustainable 3D-Printing.

Background

Digital Design, Large-Format Printing, 3D-Printing and Sustainability/recycling.

Specialisms

Subtractive & Additive Manufacturing, D4AM, Bespoke Polymers, and Integrated Electronics.

Papers

 Additive manufacturing for electrochemical labs: An overview and tutorial note on the production of cells, electrodes and accessories, Talanta Open, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03601 

Electrochemical Improvements Can Be Realized via Shortening the Length of Screen-Printed Electrochemical Platforms, Analytical Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c03601 

Influence of design and material characteristics on 3D printed flow-cells for heat transfer-based analytical devices, Microchimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-022-05163-2 

All-in-One Single-Print Additively Manufactured Electroanalytical Sensing Platforms, ACS Measurement Science, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.1c00046 

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