Brian Derby

Brian Derby FIMMM (born 1957) is professor of materials science at Manchester University. He has been at the forefront of research into inkjet printing and 3D bioprinting, winning the Edward de Bono Medal for Original Thinking in 2007 for his work on Printing Skin and Bones: using inkjet printing technology to fabricate complex tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown.

Early life Derby was born in 1957 and educated at Bedford Modern School. He graduated with first class honours from Jesus College, Cambridge in 1978. Derby then studied at Wolfson College, Cambridge where he obtained his PhD in 1981. He has been at the forefront of research into the development of inkjet printing as a manufacturing tool.

Derby won the Edward de Bono Medal for Original Thinking in 2007 for his Printing Skin and Bones project: using inkjet printing technology to fabricate complex tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown. the ability to print skin and bone and, ultimately, whole artificial organs is a possibility'. Elected Member of the World Academy of Ceramics (2004) Series editor, Engineering Materials and Processes, Springer Verlag

Publications 2013 I. M. Beshtawi, R. Akhtar, M. C. Hillarby, C. O'Donnell, X. Zhao, A. Brahma, F. Carley, B. Derby, and H. Radhakrishnan: ‘Scanning Acoustic Microscopy for Mapping the Microelastic Properties of Human Corneal Tissue’, Current Eye Research, 38(4), 437–444 A. Carisey, R. Tsang, A. M. Greiner, N. Nijenhuis, N. Heath, A. Nazgiewicz, R. Kemkemer, B. Derby, J. Spatz, and C. Ballestrem: ‘Vinculin Regulates the Recruitment and Release of Core Focal Adhesion Proteins in a Force-Dependent Manner’, Current Biology, 23(4), 271–281 A. M. Lewis, B. Derby, and I. A. Kinloch: ‘Influence of gas phase equilibria on the chemical vapour deposition of graphene’, ACS nano, 7(4), 3104–3117 2012 Chopra, K., et al., Gel-cast glass-ceramic tissue scaffolds of controlled architecture produced via stereolithography of moulds. Biofabrication. 4(4) Derby, B., Printing and Prototyping of Tissues and Scaffolds. Science. 338(6109): p. 921–926 Dou, R. and B. Derby, Formation of Coffee Stains on Porous Surfaces. Langmuir. 28(12): p. 5331–5338 Ubal, S., et al., Continuous Deposition of a Liquid Thread onto a Moving Substrate. Numerical Analysis and Comparison With Experiments. Journal of Fluids Engineering-Transactions of the Asme. 134(2) Wang, T.M., et al., Inkjet printed carbon nanotube networks: the influence of drop spacing and drying on electrical properties. Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics. 45(31) Zhao, X.G., et al., Multi-Layer Phase Analysis: Quantifying the Elastic Properties of Soft Tissues and Live Cells with Ultra-High-Frequency Scanning Acoustic Microscopy. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 59(4): p. 610–620 2011 Akhtar, R., et al., Characterizing the elastic properties of tissues. Materials Today. 14(3): p. 96–105 Derby, B., Inkjet printing ceramics: From drops to solid. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 31(14): p. 2543–2550 Di Biase, M., et al., Photopolymerization of Pluronic F127 diacrylate: a colloid-templated polymerisation. Soft Matter. 7(10): p. 4928–4937 Di Biase, M., et al., Inkjet printing and cell seeding thermoreversible photocurable gel structures. Soft Matter. 7(6): p. 2639–2646 Dou, R. and B. Derby, Deformation mechanisms in gold nanowires and nanoporous gold. Philosophical Magazine. 91(7–9): p. 1070–1083 Dou, R., et al., Ink-Jet Printing of Zirconia: Coffee Staining and Line Stability. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 94(11): p. 3787–3792 Goodman, O. and B. Derby, The mechanical properties of float glass surfaces measured by nanoindentation and acoustic microscopy. Acta Materialia. 59(4): p. 1790–1799 Graham, H.K., et al., Localised micro-mechanical stiffening in the ageing aorta. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 132(10): p. 459–467 2010 Cook, C C; Wang, T and Derby B;, Chem. Commun. (2010) 46, 5452–5454 Derby, B; Inkjet printing of functional and structural materials – fluid property requirements, feature stability and resolution, Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. (2010) 40, 395–414 Stringer, J and Derby, B; The formation and stability of lines produced by inkjet printing”, Langmuir, (2010) 26, 10365-10372 Dou, R; Xu, B and Derby B; High strength nanoporous silver produced by inkjet printing, Scripta Mater. (2010) 63, 308–311 Dou, R and Derby B; Strain gradients and the strength of nanoporous gold, J. Mater. Res. (2010) 25, 746–753 2009 Diu, R and Derby B; A universal scaling law for the strength of metal micropillars and nanowires, Scripta Materialia (2009) 61, 524–527 (2009) LeClere, D J; Thompson, G E and Derby B; Conical tungsten stamps for the replication of pore arrays in anodic aluminium oxide films, Nanotechnology (2009) 20, 245304 Stringer, J and Derby B; Limits to feature size and resolution in inkjet printing, J. Europ. Ceram. Soc. (2009) 29, 913–918 Akhtar, R; Schwarzer, N; Sherratt, M J; Watson, R E B; Graham, H K; Trafford, A W; Mummery, P M and Derby, B; Nanoindentation of histological specimens: Mapping the elastic properties of soft tissues, J. Mater Res. (2009) 24, 638–646 2008 Derby, B; Bioprinting: inkjet printing of proteins, cells and cell-containing hybrid structures, J. Mater. Chem. (2008) 18, 5717 – 5721 Wang, T; Patel, R and Derby, B; Manufacture of 3-dimensional objects by reactive inkjet printing, Soft Matter, (2008) 4, 2513–2518 Akhtar, R; Sherrat, M J; Bierswich, N; Derbyb B; Mummery P M; Qatson R E B and Schwarzer N, Nanoindentation of histological specimens using an extension of the Oliver and Pharr method. MRS Symp. Proc., (2008) 1097E, GG01-09 Dou, Rui and Derby, Brian; The strength of gold nanowire forests, Scripta Materialia (2008) 59, 151–154 Saunders, Rachel E.; Gough, Julie E.; Derby, Brian: Delivery of human fibroblast cells by piezoelectric drop-on-demand inkjet printing, Biomaterials (2007), 29(2), 193–203 2007 Derby, Brian: Correlations for single-crystal elastic constants of compound semiconductors and their representation in isomechanical groups, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2007), 76(5), 054126/1-054126/12 2006 Anggono, Juliana; Derby, Brian: Mullite formation from the pyrolysis of aluminium-loaded polymethylsiloxanes: The influence of aluminium powder characteristics, Journal of the European Ceramic Society (2006), 26(7), 1107–1119 Mironov Vladimir; Reis Nuno; Derby Brian: Review: bioprinting: a beginning, Tissue engineering (2006), 12(4), 631–4 Smith, P. J.; Shin, D.-Y.; Stringer, J. E.; Derby, B.; Reis, N: Direct ink-jet printing and low temperature conversion of conductive silver patterns, Journal of Materials Science (2006), 41(13), 4153–4158 2005 Wang, Tianming; Derby, Brian: Ink-jet printing and sintering of PZT, Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2005), 88(8), 2053–2058 Reis, Nuno; Ainsley, Chris; Derby, Brian: Ink-jet delivery of particle suspensions by piezoelectric droplet ejectors, Journal of Applied Physics (2005), 97(9), 094903/1-094903/6