Metamaterials Innovation Hub

The knowledge and facilities to take Metamaterials to market

At the Metamaterials Innovation Hub (MIH), we drive advancements in metamaterials, fostering innovation and collaboration to transform ideas into reality. Join us in exploring the future of technology and materials science.

About us

Our vision is to provide UK plc with the experts, equipment and advice needed to bring metamaterials to market.

We achieve this by talking to Industry to identify their needs: we then find them the training, tools and technologies that meet their challenges.

We pull together teams from industry and academia, creating bespoke projects to meet requirements, linking together R&D, product design and supply chains.

Our Services

Explore cutting-edge metamaterials technology and services tailored for your business needs.

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Research and Development

We can set up teams and projects to develop new metamaterial solutions, tailored to your requirement. We draw from both industrial and academic partners, bringing together the best of the UK’s technical capabilities – both experts and equipment - to bring your ideas to market.

Consultancy

We can help you as much as you need to reach your goals, providing support from initial ideas through to setting up your supply chain and reaching the market.

Our team is ready to support you in technical development, product design & optimisation, test and evaluation, intellectual property management, manufacture and commercialisation.

Training Programs

Training in whatever you need to achieve your goals, such as a classroom-based introduction to the potential of metamaterials, or hands-on instruction in the use of specialised tools and equipment.

Our offerings include:

Access to equipment
Access to state-of-the-art laboratories
Access to suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP)
The provision of office space
Consultancy services (technical, intellectual property (IP), commercialisation)
Design services
Test services
Manufacturing services
Development at all technology development levels (TRLs)
Training and education
Co-development activities

Our Projects

Explore cutting-edge metamaterials technology and services tailored for your business needs.

Stealth Wind Turbines

We have used metamaterials to enable wind turbines to work in harmony with local airport and weather radar systems, leading to the world’s first “stealthy” wind farm in France.

Radome Design

Working with Technical Composites Ltd, we have embedded metamaterials into shaped composite materials to develop protective covers for antenna, also known as radomes, with bespoke electromagnetic filtering properties.

Metasurface characterisation

A brand new technique for the analysis of metasurfaces, detecting manufacturing flaws and failures on the level of individual elements in an array.

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Acoustic metamaterials

Helping Metasonixx to prove their award-winning acoustic window technology in new markets through testing and analysis.

Metamaterials are shaping tomorrow's world