Sir Henry Royce Institute - Cambridge Equipment
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
As a national institute, The Sir Henry Royce Institute (SHRI) for Advanced Materials, will provide the missing 'link' in the UK innovation chain allowing the iterative design of advanced materials for various applications, at speed and reasonable cost, providing a critical component to delivering on the government's economic strategy. The Institute will reduce the time-scales to translate discoveries to applications, provide strategic leadership together with training and career development in areas of particular need.
The aim is to establish the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials as an 'An international flagship for the accelerated discovery and development of new materials systems for the economic and societal benefit of the UK.'.
The SHRI will cover the invention and manufacture of Soft Materials; Functional Materials; Structural Engineering Materials and Energy Materials along with the necessary facilities to test and characterise them within a framework that emphasises the sustainable use of materials.
Initially there will be 9 core material areas led by founding partners.
Chemical Materials Discovery
Biomedical Materials and Devices
Materials for Energy Efficient ICT
Atoms to Devices
2D Materials Systems
Advanced Metals Processing
Materials systems for Demanding Environments
Energy Storage
Nuclear materials
The Cambridge spoke of the Sir Henry Royce Institute is based at the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge. The Cambridge Sir Henry Royce Institute activity will focus on Materials for Energy Efficient ICT, which has three overarching themes:
1. Materials for Energy Efficient Energy Generation with a focus on new materials and devices that are able to power autonomous devices by harnessing energy from the environment.
2. Materials for Energy Efficient Energy Storage with a focus on significant improvements in the energy density, longevity, cost and compatibility of the various energy storage technologies required to power the next generation of ICT devices.
3. Materials for Energy Efficient Use with a focus on radical approaches to reduce power consumption in processing and memory, towards the theoretical limits that are many orders of magnitude below current silicon-based technology (and are approached in biological systems).
The aim is to establish the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials as an 'An international flagship for the accelerated discovery and development of new materials systems for the economic and societal benefit of the UK.'.
The SHRI will cover the invention and manufacture of Soft Materials; Functional Materials; Structural Engineering Materials and Energy Materials along with the necessary facilities to test and characterise them within a framework that emphasises the sustainable use of materials.
Initially there will be 9 core material areas led by founding partners.
Chemical Materials Discovery
Biomedical Materials and Devices
Materials for Energy Efficient ICT
Atoms to Devices
2D Materials Systems
Advanced Metals Processing
Materials systems for Demanding Environments
Energy Storage
Nuclear materials
The Cambridge spoke of the Sir Henry Royce Institute is based at the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge. The Cambridge Sir Henry Royce Institute activity will focus on Materials for Energy Efficient ICT, which has three overarching themes:
1. Materials for Energy Efficient Energy Generation with a focus on new materials and devices that are able to power autonomous devices by harnessing energy from the environment.
2. Materials for Energy Efficient Energy Storage with a focus on significant improvements in the energy density, longevity, cost and compatibility of the various energy storage technologies required to power the next generation of ICT devices.
3. Materials for Energy Efficient Use with a focus on radical approaches to reduce power consumption in processing and memory, towards the theoretical limits that are many orders of magnitude below current silicon-based technology (and are approached in biological systems).
Planned Impact
The Pathways to Impact for this funding will be realised through the collective benefits management activity for the Sir Henry Royce Institute.
The Materials for ICT facilities hosted at the University of Cambridge but linking the other Royce nodes, will provide a focal point for industry to identify the breadth and strength of the Royce 'Materials for ICT' activity. It will be designed to provide interaction between all TRLs from 1 to 5. It will provide an 'elevator' through the TRLs with the aim of creating a high knowledge throughput to accelerate the historically slow penetration of new materials. It will allow the chance to cross-fertilise knowledge between users of the facility from many departments, the ability to showcase the research to industry and to other top international ICT institutes. There are excellent opportunities for complementarity in facilities and research programmes across all Royce nodes.
The Materials for ICT facilities hosted at the University of Cambridge but linking the other Royce nodes, will provide a focal point for industry to identify the breadth and strength of the Royce 'Materials for ICT' activity. It will be designed to provide interaction between all TRLs from 1 to 5. It will provide an 'elevator' through the TRLs with the aim of creating a high knowledge throughput to accelerate the historically slow penetration of new materials. It will allow the chance to cross-fertilise knowledge between users of the facility from many departments, the ability to showcase the research to industry and to other top international ICT institutes. There are excellent opportunities for complementarity in facilities and research programmes across all Royce nodes.
Organisations
Publications
Abdulrhman M
(2022)
Routes towards manufacturing biodegradable electronics with polycaprolactone (PCL) via direct light writing and electroless plating
in Flexible and Printed Electronics
Abfalterer A
(2020)
Colloidal Synthesis and Optical Properties of Perovskite-Inspired Cesium Zirconium Halide Nanocrystals.
in ACS materials letters
Adassooriya NM
(2023)
Dielectric behaviour of plasma hydrogenated TiO2/cyanoethylated cellulose nanocomposites.
in Nanoscale
Ahmad M
(2019)
Protected catalyst growth of graphene and carbon nanotubes
in Carbon
Algueró M
(2021)
Multiferroic Aurivillius Bi4Ti2-xMnxFe0.5Nb0.5O12 (n = 3) compounds with tailored magnetic interactions.
in Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)
Alsufyani M
(2020)
The effect of aromatic ring size in electron deficient semiconducting polymers for n-type organic thermoelectrics
in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Alvarez-Fernandez A
(2020)
Structural Characterization of Mesoporous Thin Film Architectures: A Tutorial Overview.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Antoncík F
(2023)
Novel approach for manufacture of single-grain EuBCO/Ag bulk superconductors via modified single-direction melt growth
in Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Antoniou M.
(2024)
On the Superior Reverse Recovery Properties of Silicon Partial SOI SJ Diodes
| Description | This capital-only grant for the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials has been used to support new equipment facilities for the processing and characterisation of materials in the broad field of 'Materials for Energy Efficient ICT'. These have been brought into full operation during the course of 2018. Facilities are now available for use by internal researchers, other UK academic researchers, and by industry. Details for accessing these can be found at https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute and as listed below: AJA UHV magnetron sputter system Zeiss Cross-Beam dual-beam FIB-SEM system Prevac MBE chamber and thermal/e-beam evaporator-based PVD system Bruker Dimension Icon 8-inch Wafer Scale AFM Mbraun ten-glovebox Ambient Processing Suite SPECS EnviroESCA near-ambient-pressure Environmental XPS Raith E-beam Lithography system Karl Suss 4th generation UV Mask Aligner Protochips in-situ TEM Holder, Gatan OneView camera and Gatan vacuum pumping station Zeiss Xradia 3D X-ray CT Biolin QSense electronic quartz crystal microbalance Energy Storage Test Equipment Linseis Thermoelectric analyser Energy Harvest Test Equipment Cascade HV probe station HF Antenna Test Equipment Quantum Design Magnetic Property Measurement System Asylum Research Magnetic and Thermal Imaging System Oxford Instruments ICE 12 Tesla Wide Bore Magnet |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Chemicals,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Energy |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | Cabinet Office/GO-Science |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Phase 3 of UK NQTP |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Royce/IOP "Materials for the Energy Transition" 2020 Roadmapping |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | In response to the Committee on Climate Change's 2019 "Net Zero" Report, the Henry Royce Institute Partners at the Universities of Cambridge, Imperial, Leeds and Manchester, in collaboration with the Institute of Physics, engaged with over 220 participants from academic and industrial materials research communities to explore solutions to the grand challenge of "Materials for the Energy Transition." Through roadmapping workshops and associated community-led activities, energy technologies were identified where materials research can make a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions. The following four areas were identified where materials science is critical to enabling a step-change in greenhouse gas reduction: (1) Materials for photovoltaic systems, (2) Materials for low-carbon methods of hydrogen generation, (3) Materials for decarbonisation of heating and cooling (split into thermoelectric and caloric energy conversion materials) and (4) Materials for low-loss electronics. Outcomes of these roadmapping exercises were (1) an executive summary report highlighting the main findings of the four roadmapping activities, and (2) five materials development roadmaps towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 were published in September 2020. All documents were made publicly available free of charge for research communities, the public, funding bodies, government, policy-makers and industry leaders. Influence: (1) Roadmaps have been cited in academic journals, influencing research communities towards mission-driven activities (2) roadmaps have begun to influence position papers and policy documents for organisations to inform government, (3) roadmaps have influenced funding bodies to shape future funding opportunities in the "Materials for the Energy Transition" research space (4) EPSRC have requested Royce to facilitate creation of further roadmapping activities towards zero-carbon goals and sustainable UK manufacturing, beginning in 2021. |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/materials-for-the-energy-transition/ |
| Description | Thin film deposition landscaping exercise |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The consultation was used to support the case for a RFP for an investment in a facility identified as critical in the study. |
| Description | Barocaloric materials for zero-carbon heat pumps |
| Amount | £1,392,100 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V042262/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 11/2024 |
| Description | Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) |
| Amount | £2,098,617 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P007767/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2016 |
| End | 11/2022 |
| Description | Engineering low power tunnel transistors based on two-dimensional semiconductors 2D-LOTTO |
| Amount | € 2,400,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101019828 |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | Expanding the Environmental Frontiers of Operando Metrology for Advanced Device Materials Development |
| Amount | £1,026,620 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T001038/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | Sir Henry Royce Institute - recurrent grant |
| Amount | £52,313,935 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R00661X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2016 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | SuperSolar Hub Extension |
| Amount | £856,808 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P02484X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2017 |
| End | 10/2018 |
| Description | The Royce: Capitalising on the investment |
| Amount | £1,006,681 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S019367/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Title | Accompanying dataset for 'Hard antinodal gap revealed by quantum oscillations in the pseudogap regime of underdoped high-Tc superconductors' |
| Description | This research data supports 'Hard antinodal gap revealed by quantum oscillations in the pseudogap regime of underdoped high-Tc superconductors'. A Readme file for plotting each figure is provided. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/305873 |
| Title | Data Supporting: Tunable Multiband Halide Perovskite Tandem Photodetectors with Switchable Response |
| Description | Data supporting the publication entitled "Tunable Multiband Halide Perovskite Tandem Photodetectors with Switchable Response" This data set includes information on the modelling of the photodetector behaviour, calculating the impact of perovskite band gap and thickness. The dataset contains the data of the optimisation of narrowband detection performance, using EQE scans. The charactersation of photodetector performance, including noise and response speed. Finally, data on the demonstration of an encrypted comms. method is contained. All data was obtained as CSV files and processed in excel |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/346715 |
| Title | Dataset for "Chemoenzymatic Photoreforming: A Sustainable Approach for Solar-fuel Generation from Plastic Feedstocks" |
| Description | Data includes: - Catalyst Characterization - contains UV, IR, PXRD, TEM and XPS data (as Origin and PNG files). - Enzyme Pretreatment - contains all data on enzyme pre-treatment (as Origin, JPG and PNG files). - Photoreforming - contains all photoreforming data including integrated system and CO2R (as Origin and JPG files). - Readme file included. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/354387 |
| Title | Dataset for 'A three-dimensional hybrid electrode with electroactive microbes for efficient electrogenesis and chemical synthesis' |
| Description | The dataset contains raw data supporting the article 'A three-dimensional hybrid electrode with electroactive microbes for efficient electrogenesis and chemical synthesis''. An inverse opal-indium tin oxide (IO-ITO) was developed as a highly efficient electrode material for microbial electricity production and chemical synthesis. The dataset is divided into four key parts: Echem: Contains electro/photo chemical data for IO-ITO, BiVO4, dye sensitized TiO2 and graphene oxide (GO) reduction (origin files), Microscopy: Contains SEM, FIB-SEM, AFM and confocal images of bacteria, IO-ITO, BiVO4 photoanode and dye sensitized TIO2 (png and tif files), Protein quantification: Contains data for protein quantified from electrode attached bacteria (origin file), RNA Seq: Contains data for RNA extraction and gene expression analyses. The RNA sequencing and data analysis was conducted by Cambridge Genomic Services (csv files). For more details about experimental procedure, instrumentation, and data collection, see the manuscript. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/350833 |
| Title | Raw data for "Engineering electro- and photocatalytic carbon materials for CO2 reduction by formate dehydrogenase" |
| Description | Data from main text contains all Electrochemical, QCM, ATR-IR and photocatalysis python scripts for data analysis and image data related to main text sorted by respective figure. Data from Supporting Information contains all FT-IR, UV-vis, XPS, Zeta potential, electrochemical, ATR-IR and photocatalysis python scripts and image data related to the extended dataset sorted by respective figure. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/339255 |
| Title | Research Data Supporting "Enhancing the Performance of Layered Metal-Organic Framework Supercapacitors by Coordination Modulation" |
| Description | Experimental data supporting ""Enhancing the Performance of Layered Metal-Organic Framework Supercapacitors by Coordination Modulation". This data set contains six primary files: - Conductivity Measurement Data (.xlsx, .txt - contains results from the measurements used to calculate conductivity values). - Electrochemistry Data (.txt - contains CV, GCD and EIS data from electrocehmcial cells assembled with a variety of different samples and either 1 M NEt4BF4 in ACN or EMIM-BF4 IL electrolytes, along with the metafiles for the cells). - Elemental Analysis Data (.pdf, .xlsx, .txt - contains elemental analysis data). - Gas Sorption Data (.txt - contains results from gas sorption measurements). - SEM Data (.tif - contains SEM images from a range of samples). - TEM Data (.tif, .txt - contains TEM images from samples of A-CuHHTP and B-CuHHTP, intesnity plot data for an image of B-CuHHTP, and results from simulations). - XRD Data (.txt - contains synchrotron XRD data). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/341868 |
| Title | Research Data Supporting Mixed Hierarchical Local Structure in a Disordered Metal-Organic Framework |
| Description | Amorphous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of materials. However, their structural characterisation represents a significant challenge. Fe BTC, and the commercial equivalent Basolite® F300, are MOFs with incredibly diverse catalytic ability, yet their disordered structures remain poorly understood. Here, we use advanced electron microscopy to identify a nanocomposite structure of Fe BTC where nanocrystalline domains are embedded within an amorphous matrix, whilst synchrotron total scattering measurements reveal the extent of local atomic order within Fe BTC. We use a polymerisation-based algorithm to generate an atomistic structure for Fe-BTC, the first example of this methodology applied to the amorphous MOF field outside the well-studied zeolitic imidazolate framework family. This demonstrates the applicability of this computational approach towards the modelling of other amorphous MOF systems with potential generality towards all MOF chemistries and connectivities. We find that the structures of Fe-BTC and Basolite® F300 can be represented by models containing a mixture of short- and medium-range order with a greater proportion of medium-range order in Basolite® F300 than in Fe-BTC. We conclude by discussing how our approach may allow for high-throughput computational discovery of functional, amorphous MOFs. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/317965 |
| Title | Research data supporting "Collective Mid-Infrared Vibrations in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering" |
| Description | This data set contains the experimental and simulation data for the manuscript. This includes SERS spectra and data, XPS data, and simulations. All files are given in .txt. Please see the read me file for further information how the repository is organized. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/340442 |
| Title | Research data supporting "Mimicking transmural helical cardiomyofibre orientation using Bouligand-like pore structures in ice-templated collagen scaffolds" |
| Description | This data set contains experimental and simulation data for the manuscript. This includes coordinates of simulated ice freezing front and pore orientation distribution by µCT analysis. Both the raw data points and Python scripts for data analysis are provided. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/360852 |
| Title | Research data supporting "Modelling amorphous materials via a joint solid-state NMR and X-ray absorption spectroscopy and DFT approach: application to alumina" |
| Description | This dataset includes a set of trajectories from AIMD for models of amorphous alumina at different quenching temperatures, densities and quenching rates. Using the methods described in the associated paper published in Chemical Science, a selection of these confgurations are used to calculated NMR, XAS, and electronic DOS for amorphous alumina. In the associated paper, these spectra are then compared to high-quality experimental results which show excellent agreement with the DFT-computed spectra. All AIMD trajectories were generated using VASP and the subsequent spectroscopic analysis was all carried out using CASTEP. The post-processing tool OptaDOS was then used to generate the XAS spectra and broadened eDOS. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/345149 |
| Title | Research data supporting "Porous pseudo-substrates for InGaN quantum well growth: morphology, structure and strain relaxation" |
| Description | Zip folder containing X-ray diffraction scans and simulation files (.txt files) from partially relaxed porous InGaN superlattice pseudo-substrates an InGaN multiple quantum well (MQW) structures grown on such templates. The pseudo-substrates were porosified by electro-chemical etching at different etching voltages, in which a sub-surface InGaN/InGaN superlattice was etched via threading dislocations acting as etching channels. File: "Fig 3 - XRD_104_rsm (as-grown SL template).txt" contains X-ray diffraction (XRD) data of the 10-14 reflection for the as-grown InGaN supperlattice (SL) template (sample A1) File: "Fig 3 - XRD_104_rsm (porous SL template).txt" contains XRD data of the 10-14 reflection for the porosified InGaN SL template (sample A2) File: "Fig 3 - XRD_105_rsm (as-grown SL template).txt" contains XRD data of the 10-15 reflection for the as-grown InGaN SL template (sample A1) File: "Fig 3 - XRD_105_rsm (porous SL template).txt" contains XRD data of the 10-15 reflection for the porosified InGaN SL template (sample A2) File: "Fig 3 - XRD_204_rsm (as-grown SL template).txt" contains XRD data of the 20-24 reflection for the as-grown InGaN SL template (sample A1) File: "Fig 3 - XRD_204_rsm (porous SL template).txt" contains XRD data of the 20-24 reflection for the porosified InGaN SL template (sample A2) File: "Fig 3 - XRD_205_rsm (as-grown SL template).txt" contains XRD data of the 20-25 reflection for the as-grown InGaN SL template (sample A1) File: "Fig 3 - XRD_205_rsm (porous SL template).txt" contains XRD data of the 20-25 reflection for the porosified InGaN SL template (sample A2) File: "Fig 4a - XRD_002_w2t-scan (as-grown SL template).txt" contains XRD w2t scan data of the 0002 reflection for the as-grown InGaN SL template (sample A1) File: "Fig 4a & 4b - XRD_002_w2t-scan (porous SL template).txt" contains XRD w2t scan data of the 0002 reflection for the porosified InGaN SL template (sample A2) File: "Fig 4 - XRD_002_w2t-simulation (as-grown SL template, 9.15%_6.10% fully strained).txt" contains simulated w2t-scans of the 0002 XRD refelction for the as-grown SL template (sample A1). It assumes that the InGaN/InGaN SL is fully strained and consists of alternating InxGa(1-x)N layers with compositions of x = 9.15% and x = 6.10% File: "Fig 4b - XRD_002_w2t-simulation (porous SL template, 8.85%_5.90% partially relaxed).txt" contains simulated w2t-scans of the 0002 XRD refelction for the porosified SL template (sample A2). It assumes that the InGaN/InGaN SL is partially relaxed and consists of alternating InxGa(1-x)N layers with compositions of x = 8.85% and x = 5.90% File: "Fig 4b - XRD_002_w2t-simulation (porous SL template, 9.15%_6.10% partially relaxed).txt" contains simulated w2t-scans of the 0002 XRD refelction for the porosified SL template (sample A2). It assumes that the InGaN/InGaN SL is partially relaxed and consists of alternating InxGa(1-x)N layers with compositions of x = 9.15% and x = 6.10% File: "Fig 7a - XRD_104_rsm (sample B2, non-porous wafer edge).txt" contains XRD data of the 10-14 reflection for the non-porosified edge of sample B2. File: "Fig 7b - XRD_104_rsm (sample B2, porous centre).txt" contains XRD data of the 10-14 reflection for the porosified centre of sample B2. The InGaN SL template of this sample was porosified at a medium etch voltage and was then overgrown with a multi-quantum well (MQW) structure. File: "Fig 7c - Relaxation degree as function of average porosity.txt" contains relaxation degree as function of average porosity |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/358267 |
| Title | Research data supporting "Scanning capacitance microscopy of GaN-based high electron mobility transistor structures: a practical guide" |
| Description | The dataset includes data for the associated article, encompassing the scanning capacitance microscopy (SCM), scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS), and mercury CV data related to the GaN-based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) structures. The SCM and SCS data were acquired using a Bruker Dimension Icon Pro AFM coupled with a Bruker SCM module, saved as '.spm' files viewable with Bruker's NanoScope Analysis software. The mercury CV data was obtained using a mercury probe capacitance-voltage measurement system from Materials Development Corporation, stored as a text file importable to data analysis software like Origin. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/355790 |
| Title | Research data supporting "Solar-driven liquid multicarbon fuel production using a standalone perovskite-BiVO4 artificial leaf" |
| Description | The dataset contains raw data supporting the article ''Solar-driven liquid multicarbon fuel production using a standalone perovskite-BiVO4 artificial leaf''. An artificial leaf device was developed for sunlight driven conversion of carbon dioxide and water into multicarbon alcohols (ethanol and n-propanol) without any external energy input. The dataset is divided into five key parts:$$ \ $$i) Artificial Leaf: Contains data related to the perovskite-BiVO4 artificial leaf device assembly and performance (Origin, Microsoft Excel, JPG, and TIF files),$$ \ $$ii) Catalyst and Device Characterization: Contains bimetallic CuxPdy CO2 reduction catalyst, perovskite device, BiVO4 photoanode, and TiCo water oxidation catalyst characterization data (Origin and TIF files),$$ \ $$iii) Electrochemistry: Contains electrochemical characterization and CO2 electrolysis data (Origin, Microsoft Excel, and TIF files),$$ \ $$iv) Photoelectrochemistry: Contains photoelectrochemical characterization data of perovskite photocathode and unassisted tandem device (Origin and Microsoft Excel files),$$ \ $$v) Spectroscopy and DFT: Contains data related to mechanistic analysis of CO2 to multicarbon alcohol production over bimetallic CuxPdy catalysts (Origin and TIF files). For more details about experimental procedure, instrumentation, and data collection, see the manuscript. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/348267 |
| Title | Research data supporting "The influence of porosity on the superconducting properties of Y-Ba-Cu-O single grains" |
| Description | This dataset contains the raw data for the journal article "The influence of porosity on the superconducting properties of Y-Ba-Cu-O single grains". The file "README.txt" contains detailed information about the measurement of the raw data and the determination of the data shown in the paper. The file "Raw_data.xlsx" contains raw data used to plot the graphs shown in Figures 4, 5, 6(a), 6(b), 7, 9, 11 and 12. The file "1373_25mm_YBCO_tracking_microscope.tif" contains the raw microscope image shown in Figure 3. The zip folders "1A-1H" contain image stacks of sample pieces 1A-1H measured using 3D X-ray Computer Tomography (XCT). Each zip folder also contains a header file with more details about the XCT measurements. The folder "SQUID" contains the raw data used to determine Tc, ?T90, and Jc measured using a Magnetic Properties Measurement System (MPMS). The folder "Optical_microscope" contains the raw images used to determine the Y-211 particle size and content. Furthermore, it also contains images where the Y-211 particles are marked in green and red, which were used to determine Y-211 size and content. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/352863 |
| Title | Research data supporting Adjusting the Physico-Chemical Properties of Collagen Sca?olds to Accommodate Primary Osteoblasts and Endothelial Cells |
| Description | Excel spread sheet of data used to construct graphs in 'Adjusting the Physico-Chemical Properties of Collagen Sca?olds to Accommodate Primary Osteoblasts and Endothelial Cells' that has been published in Regenerative Biomaterials |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/350342 |
| Title | Research data supporting Photoelectrochemical CO2-to-fuel conversion with simultaneous plastic reforming |
| Description | Raw data supporting the article 'Photoelectrochemical CO2-to-fuel conversion with simultaneous plastic reforming' published in Nature Synthesis. Please see readme file for more details. $$ \ $$ Important: this is the most up-to-date version of this dataset, where corrections were made in the revision stage of the manuscript. The original (uncorrected) version of this dataset can be found at http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.88883. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/345444 |
| Title | Research data supporting The effect of the dielectric end groups on the positive bias stress stability of N2200 organic field effect transistors |
| Description | Data to accompany "The effect of the dielectric end groups on the positive bias stress stability of N2200 organic field effect transistors" by D. Simatos et al., APL Materials 9, 041113 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0044785 also available on Apollo (https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/319841) and arXiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07089). The zip folder contains raw datasets (.txt and .csv files) of transfer and output curves as well as of positive bias stress (PBS) of OFETs (Organic Field Effect Transistors) fabricated with the semiconducting organic polymers indacenodithiophene-co-benzothiadiazole (C16-IDTBT) and poly[2,5-bis(3-tetradecylthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene] (C14-PBTTT) as well as Cytop-M (CTL-809M) and Cytop-S (CTX809-SP2) gate dielectrics (AGC Inc.). The analysis (.opju file) was carried out in Origin (the data analysis and graphing software from OriginLab). Dielectric thicknesses measured with a profilometer are also included. See the main manuscript for more details. Folder names include information relating to the batch & date of device fabrication, contact geometry (TGBC - top gate bottom contact), type of polymer (IDTBT, N2200), type of dielectric (Cytop-M, Cytop-S), fabrication and testing conditions (nitrogen atmosphere, air exposure or vacuum) and the number of days elapsed since fabrication. In addition, Cryo denotes measurements as a function of temperature and PBS - Positive Bias Stress results. Filenames include information relating to the fabrication batch, contact geometry (TGBC - top gate bottom contact), type of polymer (IDTBT, N2200), type of dielectric (Cytop-M, Cytop-S), fabrication and testing conditions (nitrogen atmosphere, air exposure and vacuum) as well as the number of days elapsed since fabrication, T- transfer curve, O- output curve. PBS filenames also include the time elapsed from the beginning of an experiment and Cryo filenames include the temperature in Kelvin. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/326370 |
| Description | MATcelerate |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Cambridge Enterprise |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Cambridge Royce is working closely with the MATcelerate initiative, a project led by Cambridge Enterprise aimed at accelerating the commercialisation of innovations in the field of Materials with a specific focus on Energy. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Only minor progress so far. |
| Impact | None. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | NCSR Demokritos - Athens (Greece) |
| Organisation | National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) Demokritos |
| Country | Greece |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provided Royce facility access and usage to enable further collaboration and publications. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research collaborations. |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Paul Sherrer Institute - Villingen (Switzerland) |
| Organisation | Paul Scherrer Institute |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Royce facility usage. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research collaboration. |
| Impact | / |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | UK Atomic Energy Agency collaboration |
| Organisation | UK Atomic Energy Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Cambridge together with A2D partners facilitated a meeting with the UKAEA Control Systems Software Engineering team to explore the use of new materials to be used in the extreme environment of a fusion reactor (e.g. radiation-hardened materials) and to understand if this could be a potential area of research and collaboration for the sector. The collaboration also aims at the organisation of an academic workshop to discuss challenges and streams of research on these topics. The workshop aims at presenting and discussing advances of fusion environment in on and off states; space applications environment, theoretical approaches (challenges of simulating the environment) and material options. The discussion will also provide elements to draft a plan for moving forward and to eventually open the discussion to a wider audience in the future. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Further meetings were arranged locally with relevant academics to follow up on points raised during the meeting. |
| Impact | Further meetings were arranged locally with relevant academics to follow up on points raised during the meeting. The organisation of an academic workshop is likely to happen in the coming month once the challenges become clearer and better defined. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | World Materials Forum - Nancy (F) |
| Organisation | University of Lorraine |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Royce at Cambridge has started a collaboration with the WMF in 2022. For the second time, Cambridge with the support of Royce will be organising the UK chapter of the World Materials Forum (WMF), event founded in 2015 in France by Philippe Varin and Victoire de Margerie, based on the conviction that we can decouple economic growth and materials consumption, while creating value for industry. The WMF meets annually in Nancy, France, bringing together international leaders and experts to use collective intelligence to answer tomorrow's needs and challenges in Materials science and to identify solutions to use materials smarter, less and longer. More recently the WMF has opened a number of local chapters with strategic partners: UK (University of Cambridge), California , Japan and Australia to discuss more focused challenges. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Cambridge will host and organise for the second time the UK chapter, to which we are inviting a selected group of key players from UK and internationally. The format of the event will comprise three focused small-group discussion sessions between senior decision-makers, involving company CEOs, academics and start ups where participants will be invited to share their vision and advance in the field of next-generation research, innovations and technology. |
| Impact | First edition of the UK Chapter WMF (2022). Cambridge was subsequently invited to the Word edition in 2023 and asked to organise the 2nd edition of the UK chapter to be held in 2024. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | "Energy & Light" Symposium, presenting research performed in the Royce Ambient Cluster here at the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge University. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Local and regional SMEs were invited to learn more about the Royce Ambient Cluster Tool located in the Maxwell Centre at Cambridge. Approximately 50 delegates attended the meeting either online or physically. The physical attendees were given a tour of the facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | 2022 Maxwell Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An overview of the materials science research being undertaken across West Cambridge, much of which involves the use of Royce facilities at Cambridge. This event attracted a wide range of attendees including postgraduate students giving short talks on their research; local SMEs involved in academic-industry research at Cambridge; the Academic Director of R&D at NSG Pilkington speaking on work on decarbonising glass. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2022 |
| URL | https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/annual-research-showcase-2022 |
| Description | 2022 SPIE - Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials (Manchester, 7th-8th September 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge together with A2D hosted the Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials meeting from the 7th-8th of September. This two-day meeting is organised in partnership with SPIE and sought to connect experts, industry members, and students focused on the enabling role of advanced functional materials in future technologies. Leading experts addressed topics ranging from plasmonic materials and devices through to materials and systems for low-loss electronics, including advanced characterisation and the modelling and simulation of these systems. More than 100 researchers from industry and academia attended the conference, in addition to representatives from Photonic Solutions, Inseto (UK) Ltd and Pro-Lite Technology Ltd. This event forms a key component of our national engagement and followed on from discussions between Royce and SPIE about establishing a broader (inter)national annual meeting in the UK. The session titles for the 2022 edition were the following: Day 1: Plasmonic Structures and Devices; Defect and Impurity Engineering; Plenary on Materials for Quantum; Poster session, Day 2: Material for Future Batteries; Materials Modelling Methods; Systems for Low Loss Electronics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://optics.org/events/2022/956 |
| Description | 2023 Impulse Entrepreneurship Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Involvement in the Impulse Programme through funding places for local innovators, as well as taking part in networking events with the participants to highlight opportunities on offer from the Royce Institute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024 |
| Description | Advanced Materials Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge attended the AMS and engaged with the exhibiting SMEs and equipment manufacturers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Advanced Materials Show - Birmingham 2022 and 2023 ed. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attending the Advanced Materials Show at the NEC in Birmingham with a stand to highlight to opportunities on offer from the Royce Institute. Contacts made across a wide range of industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Armorers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum 2023 |University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Forum is hosted by the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, UK, under the auspices of the Armourers & Brasiers' Livery Company, and is generously supported by leading organisations including Royce. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | BT Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A one-day in-person workshop involving a team of 17 research staff from BT and several PIs from across the West Cambridge departments exploring possible new research avenues in materials for telecommunications. Two follow-up meetings have been arranged which will include researchers from the wider Royce network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Battery Suite Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Launch of the Royce@Cambridge Battery Suite and Scale-Up facility. The event attracted a large audience from both academia and local industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Bioelectronics Roadmap Event - 15-16 June 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A two-day conference on the future of bioelectronic materials covering the fundamentals, materials, devices, applications, translation/commercialisation, and ethical issues. Included a 'meet the industry' session to learn about startups in the field, and a roadmapping exercise for the Royce Bioelectronic materials roadmap. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Cambridge Bioelectronics Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The 2023 inaugural edition was a big sucess: It featured an exciting two day program, and was capped to 100 attendees. 85% of the responders to the post-event survey ranked the Symposium as 5/5. Following their recommendations, we are expanding the 2024 edition to three days and a maximum of 250 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://bioelectronics.eng.cam.ac.uk/symposium-information |
| Description | Cambridge Biomaterials event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A small event to showcase biomaterials and chemical engineering projects across West Cambridge. Royce@Cambridge facilitated part of the activities and exhibited a poster at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Canadian Critical Minerals Technology Partnership Mission - 26 June 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meetings with Canadian researchers and companies involved with critical metal research and development. Contacts made across a range of sectors with follow up for international collaboration in metallurgy and automated chemical discovery. The Royce@Cambridge RBE manager attended a Critical Materials delegation event at the Canadian High Commission in London. This sparked several meetings with Royce and the Canada Research Council about possible collaborations. This attendance also supported Royce's Advanced Metals Processing and Chemical Materials Design work, with Canadian research keen to engage with Royce facilities in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Cleanroom Training Course (16th-20th January 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge co-organised the three-day in-person training event held in Leeds in January 2023. The training course will be replicated at other Royce partners. Cambridge is expected to host the event in 2025. Hosted at the University of Leeds' state-of-the-art nanotechnology cleanroom, in collaboration with Swansea University and the University of Cambridge, this technically focussed course will explore basic practices and techniques for cleanroom use. Through a combination of taught lectures, discussion sessions, and practical training participants will gain fundamental skills for working in 'clean-fab' cleanrooms. The content will develop theoretical and practical knowledge in processes such as lithography, deposition, and etching; by the end of the week attendees will have made a Field Effect Transistor. This course is suitable for any new user of cleanrooms. This includes those currently undertaking a PhD or postdoctoral research, working in academia or within the semiconductor industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/royce-training-micro-and-nano-fabrication/ |
| Description | Cluster Tool Open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A small event to raise awareness of the Cambridge Cluster Tool. 8 attendees from the local Cambridge area. This led to several projects being proposed that were funded by Royce@Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Colchester Sixth Form |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | As part of an introduction to university courses for lower sixth students, Andrew Dobrzanski promoted materials science courses and Discover Materials. Flyers and resources were provided by Royce (Tom Hancocks) with much interest from students on a subject they'd not previously heard about. Reach 30+ students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EMAG 2022 - Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group (EMAG) Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | EMAG 2022 was a biennial meeting of the EMAG group of the IOP held Imperial College London focusing on multidimensional electron microscopy research. The conference included academic talks from students and established researchers as well as a table-top trade exhibition for industry. A2D sponsored the early career section of the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iop.eventsair.com/emag2022 |
| Description | Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group Conference (EMAG 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group Conference is the biennial focused meeting of the EMAG group of the IOP. The meeting will focused on multidimensional electron microscopy research. The meeting also included a meeting jointly organized by EMAG, Royal Microscopy Society, SuperSTEM Facility at Daresbury and ePSIC Facility at Diamond to kick start the consultation for a refresh of the UK EM roadmap for electron microscopy in the physical science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Energy and Light - Cluster Tool Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Event attracting local academics and regional industrial companies, IP lawyers and local startups. A series of talks by PhD students/PostDocs and industrial users of the Royce@Cambridge Ambient Processing Cluster Facility. Allowed for follow up enquiries from potential users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| Description | Energy and Light: Cluster Tool Symposium (3rd Annual) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The third annual symposium for the Royce Ambient Pressure Cluster Tool. This one-day in-person event at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge showcased recent results from the growth, characterisation, testing and packaging of novel devices. The symposium also explored potential new ideas and research directions for the Cluster Tool. There were 53 attendees from both academia and industry with at least one new company aiming to start work on the tool in 2023 and others expressing support for the facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/henry-royce-institute/cluster-tool-symposium-october-2022 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute stands at MRE2020 exhibition in London, February 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The MRE2020 exhibition showcased UK materials research undertaken within academia and industry, with a large presence from the Henry Royce Institute, and an opportunity to forge links with businesses, other HEIs, research training organisations and media organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials CAM-IES Industry Workshop, May 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the CAM-IES Industry workshop, featuring talks from Arm, Talga, NPL, CDT Sumitomo, SwiftSolar, Chromosol, Perpetuum, Lightricity, and with participation from Dyson, Shell, Johnson Matthey, Eight19, Tata Steel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at CAM-IES Workshop: Multi-Modal Characterisation of Energy Materials, November 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at CAM-IES Workshop: Multi-Modal Characterisation of Energy Materials, November 2019. This workshop featured talks from many members of the energy materials community undertaking research using Royce equipment, and wishing to engage with Royce members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the APL Horizons Meeting on Interfaces in Energy Materials, April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the APL Horizons Meeting on Interfaces in Energy Materials, April 2018. This two-day event was organised by APL at Trinity College, Cambridge, and featured international academic experts in energy materials research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the Bruker Microscopy Seminar, Nov 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the Bruker Seminar, which presented the Royce AFM, located at the Department of Materials Science at Cambridge, to the local research community, with hands-on demonstrations and talks on equipment capabilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the CAM-IES Launch Workshop, May 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the kickoff meeting of the CAM-IES EPSRC Centre Grant, held in Cambridge in May 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the Diamond Light Source Workshop on Operando and In Situ Characterisation of Energy Materials, July 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the Diamond Light Source Workshop on Operando and In Situ Characterisation of Energy Materials, July 2019. Talks included those from many Royce equipment leads and affiliates on new equipment suites e.g. Prof Sarah Haigh, Prof Sven Schroeder, Dr Alex Walton, Dr Rob Weatherup etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the Maxwell Centre Showcase, April 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the annual Maxwell Centre Showcase, April 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the official opening of the Cambridge Royce facilities, November 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute talk, posters, tours and promotional materials at the official opening of the Cambridge Royce facilities, held at the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge in November 2018. The facilities were officially unveiled by Julia King, the Baroness Brown of Cambridge, and an introductory speech was given by the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Stephen Toope. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Impulse Entrepreneurship Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge Royce has sponsored five places on the Impulse 2022 programme. The same is expected to be continued in 2023. Any University of Cambridge researcher (including PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) working in materials science was offered the opportunity to apply. Candidates were required to have a business idea that has potential for commercialisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023,2024 |
| URL | https://www.maxwell.cam.ac.uk/programmes/impulse |
| Description | Materials Research Exchange |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Materials Research Exchange showcases a range of industrial companies and academic research, along with talks form policymakers and civil servants. Contacts were made for Royce across a range of sectors. Cambridge attended the MRE and engaged with the exhibiting RTOs as well as helping to arrange some of the programme of speakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2024 |
| URL | https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/events/materials-research-exchange-mre-2022/ |
| Description | Maxwell Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A presentation at the Maxwell Centre showcase about Royce Capabilities. The event showcases research from across West Cambridge and is also open to industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Metals: Pioneering Materials - 19-30 June 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An exhibition covering the development of a range of metals and alloys along with their uses. A tour of the exhibition was included as part of the Armorers and Brasiers Forum event held at Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | North East Advanced Material Electronics cluster group (NEAME) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with the NEAME Cluster over the summer to encourage use of the Cluster Tool facilities to solve industrial problems. The North East Advanced Material Electronics cluster group (NEAME) is made up of businesses developing new forms of semiconductor technologies which go beyond conventional, high-volume compound alternatives. Among the companies involved are: PragmatIC; Filtronic; and Evince. Contacts will be followed up on in the new year. NEAME is a dynamic cluster of leading-edge companies using advanced electronic materials technologies at the core of what they do. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | OPERANDO APPROACHES FOR ADVANCED MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This one-day symposium focused on the latest advances in the use of operando techniques to gain deeper understanding of the growth, processing, functionality and performance of novel energy and device materials. Organised by Prof Stephan Hofmann, University of Cambridge, Director of NanoDTC, and Prof Robert Weatherup, University of Oxford, Royce Research Area Lead for Electrochemical Systems, this event aimed to build an interdisciplinary network of researchers working on operando and in-situ methods and related data analysis and computationally aided optimisation approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Organization of thin film deposition landscaping workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | There were one national survey, two workshops, and formal analysis of results. The main aim of the exercise was to identify strengths and opportunities for investment in thin film deposition technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Promotional Videos for Royce Facilities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A range of collateral materials was created to better market the Royce facilities including brochures, case studies and videos. A series of promotional videos for Royce@Cambridge to raise the profile of the equipment with a wider online audience and attract new enquiries for facility use and collaboration. An example from the Royce@Cambride Bioelectronics Suite. Link provided below. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2023,2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=XB7rO9FZeZo |
| Description | Royce Cambridge Ambient Cluster Tool Energy and Light Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The annual symposium "Energy & Light" is focused around the research done using the Ambient Cluster and related developments. Participants learn about a variety of cutting edge materials research from industry and academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Cambridge Battery Suite Opening and Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 researchers, academics, students and industry representatives attended the launch of the new Royce Battery Suite and toured the facilities at the University of Cambridge's Maxwell Centre. The opening was commemorated with a Symposium attended by over 100 prominent battery academics, spinouts, and industry from around the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce Cambridge Physical Vapour Deposition and Characterisation Facility Launch | University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event marks the launch of the Royce at the University of Cambridge Physical Vapour Deposition and Characterisation Facility - part of one of the UK-wide Henry Royce Institute open-access technology platforms. This facility includes equipment for device fabrication and characterisation which will be demonstrated during the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Royce-A2D Cleanroom Training Course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The explored the basic practices and techniques for cleanroom use. Through a combination of taught lectures, discussion sessions, and practical training participants gained fundamental skills for working in 'clean-fab' cleanrooms. The content included developing theoretical and practical knowledge in processes such as lithography, deposition, and etching; with participants using what they learnt to fabricate a micro-scale Field Effect Transistor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| Description | Royce@Cambridge Facility Open Hours - 31 May / 4 July 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A series of 'open facility' events for academics and industry to visit and tour Royce@Cambridge facilities and discuss possible collaborations. This series was well attended and has led to a number of new external collaborations and better links between University departments. Seven major facilities were involved with a total of 83 participants from industry and academia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Southern Counties Materials, Minerals & Mining Society - Online Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A joint online event, chaired by Prof Serena Best, featuring two speakers from Cambridge presenting their research involving Royce equipment along with one further speaker from NPL. The event had 73 registrations from 7 different countries with a peak audience of 43. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Stabilising Organic Transistors in water for Bioelectronic Applications (IOP) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk on novel research involving stabilising Organic Field E?ect Transistors by a Cambridge researcher using Royce equipment on an additives-based approach to stabilise Organic Field E?ect Transistor (OFETs) making the first high-performance water-stable OFETs reported in the literature. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Stabilizing organic transistors in water for bioelectronic applications (IoP) - Online 25th May 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 25th May, Royce Cambridge in Partnership with the Institute of Physics (IOP) held a webinar on the subject of stabilizing organic transistors in water for bioelectronic applications. Organic bioelectronics is an emerging field - whereby organic materials seem ideal candidates for bioelectronics due to their softness, biocompatibility, stretchability, and their ability to conduct both electrons and ions. Dr Dimitrios Simatos outlined important research which used an additives-based approach to stabilize Organic Field E?ect Transistor (OFETs) immersed in Deionized (DI) water and saline solution, for periods up to a month, making the first high-performance water-stable OFETs reported in the literature. Dr Simatos received his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge, in 2022 and is currently a post-doctoral research associate at the University. His current research interests include wearables, implantable electronics, and the integration of organic and inorganic materials within the same device (hybrid systems). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.iop.org/events/stabilizing-organic-transistors-water-bioelectronic-applications |
| Description | Tata Steel - Royce Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Several Cambridge attendees took part in the Tata Biomaterials event in Manchester. This links into wider work in Cambridge that ties into the Royce Biomaterials theme that Cambridge is cultivating locally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Tata Steel - Royce Workshop to explore collaborations in healthcare and biotechnology research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A workshop to explore collaborations in healthcare and biotechnology research, and possible funding for long-term research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Technology Platform Launch Event 21-22 June 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A two-day launch event for the Cambridge Technology Platform (Physical Vapour Deposition and Characterisation Facility) covering a range of deposition, fabrication and characterisation techniques. Attendance from a range of academics, SMEs and industry. Follow up enquiries about using the equipment were received. This event involved a series of talks and practical workshops with 41 attendees over both days. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Terahertz Microscopy meeting (Manchester, 4th-5th April 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A meeting of UK researchers involved in THz imaging and spectroscopy was held in Royce Institute on 4th-5th April in Manchester. This event was held as a hybrid meeting and was attended by over 45 people. We were pleased to attract 33 in-person attendees and 15 virtual attendees. The event was attended by a good number of ECRs ( including 9 PhDs, postdocs and research fellows), in addition to senior members of the UK community, some international attendees (McMaster, MIT) and industry representation (e.g. Samsung, Malvern Pananalytical). This follows on from previous meetings (pre-COVID) and is having a positive impact on drawing this community together. In particular, the network meeting hosted a live demonstration of the cyroSNOM and room-temperature SNOM systems within the CUSTOM facility by Dr Lars Mester from neaspec gmbh. The meeting included researchers from Warwick and Sheffield who were just about to acquire microscopes, who found this demonstration and the event as a whole especially useful for learning techniques from experts in the field. Attendees are drawing up agreed follow-up actions, with the transfer of samples and access requests to Royce Facilities in progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Royce supports the Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum, which brought together researchers from universities, industry and research funding bodies to hear about the latest developments in Materials Science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| Description | Thin Film Deposition Landscaping exercise |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This work was commissioned by Royce@Cambridge in collaboration with A2D. The Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) was asked to consult the UK community about the state-of-the-art in thin film deposition capabilities and requirements for the future, i.e. what strategic investments are needed in the UK to accelerate translation of materials into electronic, spintronic, quantum, and other devices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| Description | UHV Photoemission UPS/XPS & Environmental XPS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This training event provided an overview of the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) facilities available to access across the Henry Royce Institute. It introduced researchers to XPS approaches and provide practical guidance on starting to use XPS in their work, including sample requirements, data acquisition and the benefits and limitations of the analysis. The talks covered the different techniques and instrumentation available at Royce partners in Manchester, Leeds, Cambridge, Oxford, and Imperial College London. 2022 edition: 18th-20th January 2022 2023 edition: 24th-25th January 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/royce-training-introduction-to-xps-at-royce/ |
| Description | UK Chapter of the World Materials Forum (biennial) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The World Materials Forum is an initiative founded in 2015 in France in order to decouple economic growth and materials consumption, while creating value for industry. The aims include using materials smarter, using them less and for longer, and developing breakthrough technologies and new business models. The event comprised three focused small-group discussion sessions between senior decision-makers, involving company CEOs, academics and entrepreneurs. 2020's three topics were: decarbonising bulk materials (with focus on steel and glass); stationary batteries for storage performance; and energy efficient electronics. The event held in Cambridge included an academic and business delegation from France, along with the CEO's of CRU, Polysolar, Nyobolt; deputies for the CEO's of Tata and E.ON; CTO's of NSG Pilkington, the Materials Processing Institute, and Paragraf; as well as other UK based researchers and companies. Royce@Cambridge helped facilitate this event, with Royce researchers taking part in the discussion sessions and the attendees given tours of the Royce facilities in West Cambridge along with an introduction to the research work being completed on Royce equipment and the wider aims of the UK Royce Institute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2024 |
| URL | https://sway.office.com/D1jW1Ado6CmNRRAw |
| Description | • 2021 Impulse Entrepreneurship Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Royce in Cambridge sponsored three participants whose projects involved: viral testing services - evaluating the efficacy of various test materials for their anti-viral properties; 'smart insoles' to provide the user with real-time information on their walking and running style; and securing the electronics supply chain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | • Operando Workshop, 21st September 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This 1-day, in-person symposium focussed on the latest advances in the use of operando techniques to gain deeper understanding of the growth, processing, functionality and performance of novel energy and device materials. Organised by Prof Robert Weatherup, University of Oxford, Royce Research Area Lead for Electrochemical Systems, and Prof Stephan Hofmann, University of Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/advanced-operando-studies-for-energy-materials/ |
| Description | • The Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On the 23rd June 2021 The University of Cambridge hosted a virtual stand at The Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum, which brought together researchers from universities, industry and research funding bodies to hear about the latest developments in Materials Science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |