Sir Henry Royce Institute - Manchester and NNL Equipment
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Engineering and Physical Sciences
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 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
Planned Impact
The Pathways to Impact for this funding will be realised through the collective benefits management activity for the Sir Henry Royce Institute.
Organisations
- University of Manchester (Lead Research Organisation)
- Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) (Collaboration)
- boohoo.com (Collaboration)
- Delphis Eco (Collaboration)
- National Nuclear Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Sainsbury's (Collaboration)
- M&I Materials Limited (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE (Collaboration)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- GBVi (Collaboration)
- University of Bath (Collaboration)
- SUEZ worldwide (Collaboration)
- BASF (Collaboration)
- PZ Cussons (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- The Co-operative Group Ltd (Collaboration)
- Dsposal (Collaboration)
- Bracket Global (Collaboration)
- Industry Partners (Collaboration)
- Axion (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- MERCK (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA (Collaboration)
- Dezeen Limited (Collaboration)
- University of Melbourne (Collaboration)
- Argent Energy (Collaboration)
- Alpla (Collaboration)
- ESR Technology (Collaboration)
- 5D HEALTH PROTECTION GROUP LTD (Collaboration)
- Tesco (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Unilever (Collaboration)
- University of Glasgow (Collaboration)
- Viridor (Collaboration)
- Faerch (Collaboration)
- University of Basel (Collaboration)
- National Physical Laboratory (Collaboration)
- CuanTec (Collaboration)
- Nestlé (Global) (Collaboration)
- B&M Longworth (Collaboration)
- Element Materials Technology Ltd (Collaboration)
- QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (Collaboration)
- Ionoptika (Collaboration)
- Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste (Collaboration)
- FFEI (Collaboration)
- Polytag (Collaboration)
- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (Collaboration)
- Waste and Resources Action Programme (Collaboration)
- Braskem (Collaboration)
- National Health Service (Collaboration)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (Collaboration)
- Samsung (South Korea) (Collaboration)
- BANGOR UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Derwen Aggregates (Collaboration)
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (Collaboration)
- PlasticsEurope (Collaboration)
Publications
?ucu T
(2020)
Inherently degradable cross-linked polyesters and polycarbonates: resins to be cheerful
in Polymer Chemistry
Aboura Y
(2021)
NanoSIMS analysis of hydrogen and deuterium in metallic alloys: Artefacts and best practice
in Applied Surface Science
Aboura Y
(2022)
Understanding the environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) initiation and propagation of new generation 7xxx alloys using slow strain rate testing
in Corrosion Science
Aboura Y
(2021)
Characterising hydrogen induced cracking of alloy 625+ using correlative SEM - EDX and NanoSIMS
in Corrosion Science
Abramson R
(2023)
Development of an Fe2+ sensing system based on the inner filter effect between upconverting nanoparticles and ferrozine.
in RSC advances
Abujarada S
(2019)
Adsorption site, orientation and alignment of NO adsorbed on Au(100) using 3D-velocity map imaging, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Acharya, R.
(2023)
Article
in Highly 28Si Enriched Silicon by Localised Focused Ion Beam Implantation
Adrych-Brunning A
(2021)
The interaction of proton irradiation with Zr textured microstructure
in Journal of Nuclear Materials
Adshead M
(2023)
A High-Resolution Versatile Focused Ion Implantation Platform for Nanoscale Engineering
in Advanced Engineering Materials
Ahamed A
(2024)
Technical and environmental assessment of end-of-life scenarios for plastic packaging with electronic tags
in Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Title | Achieving Nanoscale Resolution with EBSD |
Description | Struggling to map nanoscale features in your microstructures with EBSD? Perhaps this video can help... (Case study: indexing the ß phase in Ti-6Al-4V). Original research paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2022.112371 Research credits: A. E. Davis, X. Zeng, R. Thomas, J. R. Kennedy, J. Donoghue, A. Gholinia, P. B. Prangnell. Video credits: Produced, written, and performed by Alec E. Davis. Recorded by Alec E. Davis, Jack Donoghue, and Vivek Sahu. This work was supported by grants: Lightform (EPSRC EP/R001715/1), NEWAM (EPSRC EP/R027218/1), and Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (EPSRC EP/R00661X/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/P025021/1, and EP/P025498/1). Alec E. Davis is also appreciated for equipment loan from the @materialsavclub. Commercial EBSD indexing software links: Oxford Instruments: https://www.oxinst.com/blogs/pattern-matching-a-paradigm-shift-for-ebsd EDAX: https://www.edax.com/resources/application-notes/spherical-indexing |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2023 |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/8015534 |
Title | Additively Manufactured Titanium 'Alloy-Alloy Composites' and Site-Specific Property Design |
Description | Paper links: Journal of Materials Characterization: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111577 Research Gate (free preprint): https://bit.ly/3xy1Ldm Video written and produced by Alec Davis and Jacob Kennedy. Research was conducted at the University of Manchester and Cranfield University, UK, by Jacob Kennedy, Alec Davis, Armando Caballero, Michael White, Jon Fellowes, Ed Pickering, and Phil Prangnell. This work was supported by grants: NEWAM (EPSRC EP/R027218/1), Lightform (EPSRC EP/R001715/1), and Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (EPSRC EP/R00661X/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/P025021/1, and EP/P025498/1). |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2021 |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7014852 |
Title | HAXPES Poster |
Description | A poster demonstrating, with some examples, the capability of new lab-based HAXPES in the Henry Royce Institute |
Type Of Art | Image |
Year Produced | 2021 |
URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/poster/HAXPES_Poster/14307680 |
Title | How many large samples can you scan with EBSD at once? |
Description | In this video, I helped Xiaohan Zeng set up an EBSD run of 10 Ti-6Al-4V samples in a row on a Thermo Fisher high throughput Apreo SEM equipped with an Oxford Instruments' Symmetry 2 detector at the University of Manchester, UK. EBSD scan setup by Xiaohan Zeng (assisted by Dr Alec E Davis), sample preparation by Xiaohan Zeng, EBSD mapping calculator created by Dr Jack Donoghue. This research was supported by grants: NEWAM (EPSRC EP/R027218/1), LightForm (EPSRC EP/R001715/1), Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (EPSRC EP/R00661X/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/P025021/1, and EP/P025498/1). |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2021 |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5384028 |
Title | One Bin To Rule Them All |
Description | Video showcasing system change in plastic waste management |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Featured in COP26. 600 impressions. Cited in a number of government and NGO policy interventions. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v__PyGAhaA |
Title | Radiate.Fish |
Description | Collaboration with German artists Radiate.Fish on inclusion of plastic recycling in their kinaesthetic artwork projects. Established live video stream of plastic biodegrading. |
Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | New collaboration with German artists. Artists now recycling their artwork and discussing safety and importance of plastic recycling as part of their work. |
URL | https://radiate.fish |
Title | Setting up an ENORMOUS sample EBSD! |
Description | Setting up an EBSD of an 8 x 6 cm Ti-6Al-4V deformed metallic sample on a Thermo Fisher Apreo SEM equipped with an Oxford Instruments' Symmetry 2 detector at the University of Manchester, UK. EBSD scan setup by Dr Alec E Davis, sample preparation by Nicholas Byres, EBSD mapping calculator created by Dr Jack Donoghue. This research was supported by grants: NEWAM (EPSRC EP/R027218/1), LightForm (EPSRC EP/R001715/1), Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (EPSRC EP/R00661X/1, EP/S019367/1, EP/P025021/1, and EP/P025498/1). |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2021 |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4947964 |
Description | The Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (Royce) was established to develop and capitalise on the UK's world-leading excellence in advanced materials research. Through investment in strategic infrastructure at key locations across the UK, Royce now provides access to a wide range of state-of-the art facilities through a single front door which span making, testing and characterising capabilities. This joined-up system enables the greatest accessibility for our users across the UK who span academia, research technology organisations and industry. We have implemented and continue to evolve efficient access models that ensure a range of activities can be supported - from simple contract work on a single piece of kit through to complex projects conducted on facilities located across a number of sites. Our multidisciplinary capabilities draw on the world-leading expertise from across the Royce Partners and includes both new equipment funded through the original investment, and existing equipment that was incorporated into Royce by Partners and has been enhanced or extended through the Royce funding. Together this equipment which is now commissioned and operational represent >£200m of state-of-the-art, open-access research facilities, of which >200 major pieces of kit or suites have already been established as user facilities. The Royce maintains an online catalogue of the facilities portfolio which is simple for users to explore through searching or filtering by equipment or technique type, research area or category of application and location. Further we have grouped a large number of the 'make and test' facilities into 'Technology Platforms' which benefit from projecting the capabilities of suites of equipment. These platforms are championed by a Technology Platform Lead, appointed through Royce. All facilities have been TRAC-listed (or equivalent) with, (i) FEC charge-out rates available to HEIs users for inclusion on research grants as direct costs, and (ii) commercial rates for industrial users. Over the past nine months, the facilities have already delivered 45,788 hours of external usage for >130 unique industry users and >250 unique users from HEIs or related organisations. The student access scheme continues to be successful, with the current running total standing at over 220,000 hours of usage provided to external PhD students based at UK HEIs. At Manchester specifically, the Royce investment has created facilities that enable a diverse range of research from biomedical materials to materials systems for demanding environments. For example, the investment has provided funding for: Joining & Cladding Facility; Additive Manufacturing & Printing Facility; Biomedical Imaging Suite; Biomechanical Analysis & Testing Facility; Automated Rapid Discovery Robotics Platform; Physical Properties & Chromatography Suite; High Performance Testing Facility; Coatings Cluster; Gamma Irradiator; Ion Accelerator System. |
Exploitation Route | The capabilities continue to expand and grow as the role of Royce in the UK materials research ecosystem has become fully established. Regionally Royce capabilities continue to have a major impact in the NW, building on the success of its Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub (https://smihub.ac.uk/) which has supported local industry to innovate in the use of plastic packaging, Royce is now a core partner in the Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials (https://ceams.org.uk/) which broadens this remit to a wider range of materials and technology translation pathways through collaboration with RTOs including CPI and NPL. At a national level the capabilities continue to be enhanced and exploited by academia and industry through ongoing investment. In particular Royce has been part of the major InnovateUK 'Economiser' initiative which is supporting the foundation industries in partnership with Glass futures, MPI, CPI and Lucideon. This project has funded a further £3million in capabilities across Sheffield, Oxford, Imperial, Leeds and Manchester and has built major collaborations with these more traditional industries. The defence sector has also recognised the role of Royce and has established its new £45million DMEx centre with Royce as its Hub - leveraging off the capabilities of capital investment to support Dstl's priority research in materials |
Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Chemicals Construction Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Electronics Energy Environment Healthcare Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
URL | http://www.royce.ac.uk |
Description | The Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials (Royce) was established to develop and capitalise on the UK's world-leading excellence in advanced materials research. Through investment in strategic infrastructure at key locations across the UK, Royce now provides access to a wide range of state-of-the art facilities through a single front door which span making, testing and characterising capabilities. This joined-up system enables the greatest accessibility for our users across the UK who span academia, research technology organisations and industry. We have implemented and continue to evolve efficient access models that ensure a range of activities can be supported - from simple contract work on a single piece of kit through to complex projects conducted on facilities located across a number of sites. Our multidisciplinary capabilities draw on the world-leading expertise from across the Royce Partners and includes both new equipment funded through the original investment, and existing equipment that was incorporated into Royce by Partners and has been enhanced or extended through the Royce funding. Together this equipment which is now commissioned and operational represent >£200m of state-of-the-art, open-access research facilities, of which >200 major pieces of kit or suites have already been established as user facilities. The Royce maintains an online catalogue of the facilities portfolio which is simple for users to explore through searching or filtering by equipment or technique type, research area or category of application and location. Further we have grouped a large number of the 'make and test' facilities into 'Technology Platforms' which benefit from projecting the capabilities of suites of equipment. These platforms are championed by a Technology Platform Lead, appointed through Royce. All facilities have been TRAC-listed (or equivalent) with, (i) FEC charge-out rates available to HEIs users for inclusion on research grants as direct costs, and (ii) commercial rates for industrial users. In the last 3 years, the facilities have already delivered over 62,000 hours of usage for more than 300 unique industry users, of which 130 were SMEs. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Chemicals,Construction,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Best practice on Radiation Damage Workshop |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | 2 day workshop held at the Henry Royce Institute based on disseminating best practice on the planning, execution and characterisation of ion beam irradiation experiments attended by >80 delegated from PhD student, PDRAs, early career researchers and industry. Talks were from UoM, NNL, UKAEA, Sheffield University and University of Huddersfield. The success lead to the workshop becoming an annual event and the PI, RWH being asked to join an international committee for the OECD on best practice for characterisation techniques |
Description | Invited to give evidence at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in its inquiry into plastic waste |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/31509/documents/176742/default/ |
Description | Managing the UK Pu disposition |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.dalton.manchester.ac.uk/managing-uk-plutonium-stockpile/ |
Description | Non Executive Director of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/professor-francis-livens-to-join-the-nda-board |
Description | UKRI Infrastructure Roadmap Workshop with EPSRC Strategic Advisors |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | (EASI-STRESS) - European Activity for Standardization of Industrial residual STRESS characterization |
Amount | € 4,739,735 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 953219 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 12/2023 |
Description | (GrapheneCore2) - Graphene Flagship Core Project 2 |
Amount | € 88,000,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 785219 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | (GrapheneCore3) - Graphene Flagship Core Project 3 |
Amount | € 150,000,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 881603 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 09/2023 |
Description | (QTWIST) - Quantum Nanomaterials by Twistronics |
Amount | € 2,880,313 (EUR) |
Funding ID | 101001515 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 03/2026 |
Description | 14C speciation sizewell B PWR |
Amount | £120,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | EDF Energy |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2021 |
End | 01/2022 |
Description | 21BBSRC-NSF/BIO - Evolving quantum mechanical tunnelling in enzymes |
Amount | £492,473 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/X000974/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2023 |
End | 10/2026 |
Description | 21EBTA Driving Pluripotent Stem Cell Osteogenesis with Light for Tissue Engineering |
Amount | £444,894 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/W013940/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2022 |
End | 03/2024 |
Description | 21EBTA: Engineering Biology with Synthetic Genomes (EBSynerGy) |
Amount | £1,329,012 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/W014483/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 01/2025 |
Description | 3D Printed Silicone Soft Robotic "4D" Phantoms for use in MRI Guided Radiotherapy |
Amount | £150,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ID2021/100049 |
Organisation | Rosetrees Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 02/2025 |
Description | A Bottom-up Approach to Understand How Enzyme Structural Fluctuations Accelerate Multistep Reactions |
Amount | € 1,000,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | RGP0004/2022 |
Organisation | Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | France |
Start | 08/2022 |
End | 08/2025 |
Description | A Smart Automated TEM Facility for Large Scale Analysis of Atomic Structure and Chemistry |
Amount | £5,857,335 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/X041204/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2023 |
End | 08/2025 |
Description | A new platform for discovering biomarkers of early lung cancer |
Amount | £98,637 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EDDPMA-Nov21\100040 |
Organisation | Cancer Research UK |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2022 |
End | 05/2023 |
Description | AMFaces: Advanced Additive Manufacturing of User-Focused Facial Prostheses with Real-Life Colour Appearance |
Amount | £5,540,752 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/W033968/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2023 |
End | 11/2028 |
Description | Additive Manufacture of Advanced Aluminium Alloys |
Amount | £152,369 (GBP) |
Funding ID | DSTL0000009033 |
Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2023 |
End | 01/2024 |
Description | Advanced Biomedical Materials CDT |
Amount | £9,610,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 09/2027 |
Description | Advanced Functional Materials Triage Suite |
Amount | £602,602 (GBP) |
Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 04/2020 |
Description | Advanced Materials for Regenerative Medicine and Medical Devices in contact with the human body |
Amount | € 2,980,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | Op East, ERDF |
Sector | Public |
Country | Netherlands |
Start |
Description | Advanced Materials in Medicine at Manchester (AMiM@M) Institute 2019 |
Amount | £200,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start |
Description | Atomic qubits by ion implantation: towards very large-scale quantum devices |
Amount | £108,040 (GBP) |
Funding ID | RSWVF\211016 |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2021 |
End | 07/2023 |
Description | Biocatalytic Routes to Key Global Health Drugs (Phase I-IIII) |
Amount | $1,900,000 (USD) |
Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United States |
Start | 07/2022 |
End | 07/2023 |
Description | Bioelectronics (sub-theme within AMiM@M) |
Amount | £55,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2018 |
End | 07/2019 |
Description | Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Laboratory (BIOTEL) |
Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Wolfson Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start |
Description | CASE award NDA and NNL |
Amount | £139,628 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2022 |
End | 07/2026 |
Description | CASE award UKAEA |
Amount | £110,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2022 |
End | 08/2026 |
Description | CROPNUT: increasing iron in cereals |
Amount | £131,131 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/P017940/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2017 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | Capital Equipment in Support of the National Research Facility for Lab X-ray CT |
Amount | £457,413 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V035932/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 04/2022 |
Description | Case award NDA |
Amount | £110,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2022 |
End | 08/2026 |
Description | Cobalt-free Hard-facing for Reactor Systems |
Amount | £651,532 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T016728/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2020 |
End | 08/2023 |
Description | Collaborative Research |
Amount | £120,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Merck |
Department | Merck R&D UK |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2016 |
End | 04/2017 |
Description | Combining Advanced Materials for Interface Engineering (CAMIE) |
Amount | £6,553,083 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/X027074/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2023 |
End | 05/2028 |
Description | Compositional and Structural Evolution of Plutonium Dioxide: Underpinning Future Decisions |
Amount | £930,945 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T013842/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2020 |
End | 05/2024 |
Description | Cryogenic Ultrafast Scattering-type Terahertz-probe Optical-pump Microscopy (CUSTOM) |
Amount | £766,806 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T01914X/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2020 |
End | 08/2022 |
Description | D(UV) lithography |
Amount | £180,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 04/2020 |
Description | Defence Materials Centre of Excellence (DMEx) : Materials in Extreme Environments |
Amount | £42,322,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2023 |
End | 11/2028 |
Description | Design and Evolution of Photoenzymes for Triplet Energy Transfer Catalysis |
Amount | € 2,000,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | GAP-101087358 |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 03/2023 |
End | 02/2028 |
Description | Digital printing antimicrobial/antibiofilm materials onto moisture sensitive advanced woundcare substrates |
Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | IAA |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2021 |
End | 02/2022 |
Description | Doing More With Less: A Digital Twin of state-of-the-art and emerging high value manufacturing routes for high integrity titanium alloy components |
Amount | £2,608,541 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T024992/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 10/2024 |
Description | EPSRC IAA - A new rapid automated pipeline for healthcare R&D S15570 |
Amount | £35,597 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2022 |
End | 06/2022 |
Description | EPSRC NetworkPlus In Digitalised Surface Manufacturing: Towards "World's Best" Processes |
Amount | £1,015,120 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S036180/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2019 |
End | 11/2023 |
Description | EPSRC: Multiscale and In Situ Laboratory X-ray Computed Tomography National Research Facility |
Amount | £10,000,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2020 |
End | 07/2025 |
Description | EPSRC: Tomographic Imaging: UK Collaborative Computational Projects |
Amount | £296,693 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T026677/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2020 |
End | 03/2025 |
Description | ESA Flash sintering RTGs |
Amount | £150,081 (GBP) |
Organisation | National Nuclear Laboratory |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2022 |
End | 08/2023 |
Description | EXT - Dioxolane Monomers for Polymeric Beauty & Personal Care Applications |
Amount | £819,075 (GBP) |
Organisation | Unilever |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2021 |
End | 04/2026 |
Description | EconoMISER |
Amount | £1,330,652 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 03/2024 |
Description | EconoMISER |
Amount | £19,500,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 03/2024 |
Description | Enabling the Cultural Shift to Materials 4.0 |
Amount | £650,507 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/W032279/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2021 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Engineering cellular stress for enhanced extracellular bioproduction |
Amount | £515,759 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/T005742/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2020 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | Follow-on-Funding |
Amount | £199,909 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/N01250X/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2016 |
End | 11/2017 |
Description | Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub |
Amount | £10,668,316 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S01778X/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 03/2026 |
Description | GM Innovation Accelerator - Advanced Materials Innovation Cluster application |
Amount | £5,532,903 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 10055871 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2023 |
End | 03/2025 |
Description | Graphene Flagship |
Amount | € 1,004,500,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start |
Description | Graphene tape and spray solutions for mitigating SF6 leakage in transmission and distribution equipment |
Amount | £365,216 (GBP) |
Organisation | National Grid UK |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2022 |
End | 07/2025 |
Description | HNB decommissioning |
Amount | £227,317 (GBP) |
Organisation | EDF Energy |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2022 |
End | 11/2023 |
Description | High-yield renewable hydrocarbon production |
Amount | £1,426,353 (GBP) |
Organisation | Shell Global Solutions International BV |
Sector | Private |
Country | Netherlands |
Start | 11/2021 |
End | 10/2024 |
Description | Imaging of Biological Printing for High Throughput Applications |
Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | IAA277 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2020 |
End | 08/2021 |
Description | Intelligent engineering coatings for in-manufacture and in-service monitoring of critical safety products (CoatIN) |
Amount | £2,631,659 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T024607/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2020 |
End | 07/2024 |
Description | KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER PARTNERSHIP between The University of Manchester and Vivimed Labs Europe Limited |
Amount | £139,659 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 12191 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 10/2022 |
Description | KTP with Saraco Industries Limited |
Amount | £279,839 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 10001791 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | Manufacturing by Design |
Amount | £1,612,580 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/W003333/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 09/2027 |
Description | Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging for advanced chemical and materials analysis |
Amount | £810,450 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T031301/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2020 |
End | 07/2024 |
Description | Molecular mapping of SARS-CoV2 and the host response with multiomics mass spectrometry to stratify disease outcomes |
Amount | £1,736,024 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/V011456/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2020 |
End | 03/2023 |
Description | Morgan Advanced Materials/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Carbon Materials |
Amount | £590,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2018 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | NIRAB |
Amount | £6,000,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Government of the UK |
Department | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2017 |
End | 06/2019 |
Description | Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering |
Amount | £7,671,801 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V001914/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2021 |
End | 03/2026 |
Description | National Research Facility for Lab X-ray CT |
Amount | £10,097,652 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T02593X/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 10/2025 |
Description | New Developments in Quantitative 3D Chemical Imaging |
Amount | £844,822 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S019863/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2019 |
End | 06/2023 |
Description | New Fuel Assemblies for Advanced Nuclear Technologies |
Amount | £683,454 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V043730/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 09/2025 |
Description | Novel Tendon Repair - Gap Analysis in preparation for a first in man trial |
Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2021 |
End | 02/2022 |
Description | One Bin to Rule Them All |
Amount | £900,208 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/V01045X/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 10/2024 |
Description | Optimisation of CHO for Biotherapeutic Manufacture |
Amount | £3,608,961 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V038095/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2021 |
End | 09/2026 |
Description | PlasticARMPit: Accelerating the Development of Flexible Integrated Smart Systems |
Amount | £1,339,681 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 103390 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2017 |
End | 06/2021 |
Description | Platform for Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering (P-NAME) |
Amount | £702,172 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R025576/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 09/2021 |
Description | Post-Consumer Resin - Understanding the quality performance linkage for packaging |
Amount | £142,564 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/V010549/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 10/2023 |
Description | Prosperity Partnership: Synergistic Utilisation of Informatics and Data Centric Integrity Engineering |
Amount | £5,130,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V038079/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2021 |
End | 04/2026 |
Description | Provision of a Research team to Support in Graphite Structural Integrity - additional support |
Amount | £1,908,363 (GBP) |
Organisation | Office of Nuclear Regulation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2023 |
End | 01/2025 |
Description | Quantum Materials by Twistronics |
Amount | £1,289,896 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V007033/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2021 |
End | 01/2025 |
Description | Quantum Materials by Twistronics |
Amount | £1,289,897 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V007033/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2021 |
End | 01/2025 |
Description | Quantum and Many Body Physics Enabled by Advanced Semiconductor Nanotechnology |
Amount | £6,146,505 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V026496/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 09/2026 |
Description | Quantum measurement of donors in near-surface ion implanted devices |
Amount | $300,197 (AUD) |
Organisation | University of Melbourne |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | Australia |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 04/2024 |
Description | RE3 - Rethinking Resources and Recycling |
Amount | £826,551 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S025200/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2019 |
End | 06/2020 |
Description | RadIAEM:Analytical Electron Microscope with in situ capability for beta, gamma active materials |
Amount | £562,874 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V035886/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2021 |
End | 09/2023 |
Description | ReTendon: development of a novel tendon repair device that accelerates healing and reduces re-rupture of tendons |
Amount | £671,890 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2022 |
End | 10/2023 |
Description | Risk Assuring Future Structure Critical Systems: Combining 21st Century Science with Engineering Intuition |
Amount | £2,524,180 (GBP) |
Funding ID | MR/T02058X/1 |
Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2020 |
End | 07/2024 |
Description | Sim-Fuel and Alpha-Active Material Manufacturing and Characterisation Capability |
Amount | £5,500,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2020 |
End | 04/2022 |
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 | Slow Strain Rate Project UTC |
Amount | £67,396 (GBP) |
Funding ID | PO 6000-00467094 |
Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 09/2022 |
Description | Sustainable Mastercards / Circular Mastercards |
Amount | £395,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Mastercard UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 01/2024 |
Description | Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub |
Amount | £4,954,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2020 |
End | 06/2023 |
Description | Synthesis of enriched silicon for long-lived donor quantum states |
Amount | $513,395 (AUD) |
Funding ID | ARC DP220103467 |
Organisation | Australian Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | Australia |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 12/2024 |
Description | TRibology as an ENabling Technology (TRENT) |
Amount | £1,538,131 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S030476/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2019 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | Terahertz lights up the nanoscale: Exposing the ultrafast dynamics of Dirac systems using near-field spectroscopy |
Amount | £288,276 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S037438/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2019 |
End | 03/2023 |
Description | Terahertz, Topology, Technology: Realising the potential of nanoscale Dirac materials using near-field terahertz spectroscopy |
Amount | £1,221,514 (GBP) |
Funding ID | MR/T022140/1 |
Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2020 |
End | 07/2025 |
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 |
Description | Understanding N-doped graphene electrocatalysts through in-situ characterisation |
Amount | £273,320 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S004335/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2018 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | What lies beneath? Probing buried interfaces in working batteries |
Amount | £624,999 (GBP) |
Funding ID | FIRG011 |
Organisation | The Faraday Institution |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2020 |
End | 05/2023 |
Description | [16-FAPESP-BE] Lignin valorization in cellulosic ethanol plants: biocatalytic conversion via ferulic acid to high value chemicals |
Amount | £2,082,439 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/P01738X/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2017 |
End | 02/2023 |
Description | cLEO Project |
Amount | £50,707 (GBP) |
Organisation | Smith and Nephew |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 08/2022 |
Title | Inorganic transfer of 2D materials |
Description | In the last two years we have developed a polymer-free platform for rapid and facile 2D heterostructure electronic device assembly using re-usable flexible inorganic membranes (Fig. 2). This approach enables production of heterostructures with perfect interfaces free from interlayer contamination and correspondingly excellent (opto)electronic behaviour. Eliminating polymeric supports allows new possibilities for 2DM heterostructure fabrication: assembly at temperatures up to 600°C, and in different environments including ultra-high vacuum (UHV) and liquid submersion. This inorganic support technology has demonstrated numerous improvements for assembly of exfoliated crystals, as well as enabling ultra-clean assembly of CVD-grown materials on the scale of a few hundred micrometres. Since the publication of this method, 18 academic groups (Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Bar Ilan, Max Planck Institute, etc) have requested these membranes for testing purposes and over 10 groups have sent PhD students/PDRAs to our lab to learn this technique first hand. |
Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | One obvious impact is advancement of 2D materials science and technology, as this invention has removed a critical bottleneck in 2DM heterostructure nanofabrication. A corresponding patent has been filed and several industrial partners have been contacted and discussions of licencing/technology scale up are ongoing. |
URL | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-023-01075-y |
Title | AZtec projects reach the data size limit |
Description | Ten Ti-6Al-4V samples were mounted on a multi-sample stage for EBSD on a Thermo Fisher Apreo SEM equipped with an Oxford Instruments' Symmetry 2 detector at the University of Manchester. In project multi-sample_1, AZtec reported a saving error when scanning the fifth sample and stopped with 5646 frames saved (.oip~4GB). It is able to montage and export the maps, but any edit on the .oip file cannot be saved. In project multi-sample_2, we restarted the scan on the rest of the samples and completed with 5601 frames. The .oip is 3.97GB, which almost reaches the size limit. No error was reported during the scanning, and the .oip file is still editable. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5660089 |
Title | CCDC 2054313: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination |
Description | Related Article: Yujie Ma, Xue Han, Shaojun Xu, Zi Wang, Weiyao Li, Ivan da Silva, Sarayute Chansai, Daniel Lee, Yichao Zou, Marek Nikiel, Pascal Manuel, Alena M. Sheveleva, Floriana Tuna, Eric J. L. McInnes, Yongqiang Cheng, Svemir Rudic´, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Sarah J. Haigh, Christopher Hardacre, Martin Schro¨der, Sihai Yang|2021|J.Am.Chem.Soc.|143|10977|doi:10.1021/jacs.1c03036 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc26yp51&sid=DataCite |
Title | CCDC 2054314: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination |
Description | Related Article: Yujie Ma, Xue Han, Shaojun Xu, Zi Wang, Weiyao Li, Ivan da Silva, Sarayute Chansai, Daniel Lee, Yichao Zou, Marek Nikiel, Pascal Manuel, Alena M. Sheveleva, Floriana Tuna, Eric J. L. McInnes, Yongqiang Cheng, Svemir Rudic´, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Sarah J. Haigh, Christopher Hardacre, Martin Schro¨der, Sihai Yang|2021|J.Am.Chem.Soc.|143|10977|doi:10.1021/jacs.1c03036 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc26yp62&sid=DataCite |
Title | CSD 2036624: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination |
Description | Related Article: Maxwell Rigby, Varun Natu, Maxim Sokol, Daniel Kelly, David Hopkinson, Yichao Zou, James Bird, Lee Evitts, M Smith, Christopher Race, Philipp Frankel, Sarah Haigh, Michel Barsoum|2020|CSD Communication||| |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/services/structure_request?id=doi:10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc26c8kf&sid=DataCite |
Title | Crystalline grain engineered CsPbIBr2 films for indoor photovoltaics |
Description | |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/datasets/crystalline-grain-engineered-cspbibr2-films-for-i... |
Title | Data for paper entitled, "Discontinuous Precipitation in Mg-Al Alloy Studied in 3-Dimensions" |
Description | Data for paper entitled, "Discontinuous Precipitation in Mg-Al Alloy Studied in 3-Dimensions" including: -Raw SEM imaging and EBSD data -Processed SEM images -3D slices -Supplementary summary figure -Supplementary video |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7108544 |
Title | Data supporting: 'Nanoindentation Response of 3D Printed PEGDA Hydrogels in a Hydrated Environment' |
Description | Raw and processed data sets from nanoidentation response of 3D printed hydrogels. 1. Raw data of nanoindentation response. 2. Representative load-displacement curves for each type of hydrogel. 3. Representative data for creep for different types of hydrogels. 4. Representative data for NMR spectras of different types of hydrogels. 5. Representative data for glass transition of different types of hydrogels. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://cord.cranfield.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Nanoindentation_Response_of_3D_Printed_PEGDA_Hydrogels... |
Title | Dataset for Link between Anisotropic Electrochemistry and Surface Transformations at Single Crystal Silicon Electrodes: Implications for Lithium Ion Batteries |
Description | This dataset provides the raw data to the manuscript "Link between Anisotropic Electrochemistry and Surface Transformations at Single Crystal Silicon Electrodes: Implications for Lithium Ion Batteries" Specifically, the following measurements are provided: Electrochemical measurements as cyclic voltammetry using scanning electrochemical cell microscopy for three different Si crystallographic orientations (100, 110, 311) in 1 M LiPF6 in ethylene carbonate - ethyl methyl carbonate ("SECCM/") Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy imaging of pristine and cycled samples ("Images/") |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7503801 |
Title | Dataset for Link between Anisotropic Electrochemistry and Surface Transformations at Single Crystal Silicon Electrodes: Implications for Lithium Ion Batteries |
Description | This dataset provides the raw data to the manuscript "Link between Anisotropic Electrochemistry and Surface Transformations at Single Crystal Silicon Electrodes: Implications for Lithium Ion Batteries" Specifically, the following measurements are provided: Electrochemical measurements as cyclic voltammetry using scanning electrochemical cell microscopy for three different Si crystallographic orientations (100, 110, 311) in 1 M LiPF6 in ethylene carbonate - ethyl methyl carbonate ("SECCM/") Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy imaging of pristine and cycled samples ("Images/") |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7503802 |
Title | Dataset for S Maniyarasu et al. "Role of alkali cations in stabilizing mixed-cation perovskites to thermal stress and moisture conditions" |
Description | Dataset for S Maniyarasu et al., "Role of alkali cations in stabilizing mixed-cation perovskites to thermal stress and moisture conditions" - photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) data, using near ambient pressure and hard x-ray PES, as well as additional characterisation work such as absorption spectrocopy and photoluminescence spectroscopy |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Dataset_for_S_Maniyarasu_et_al_Role_of_alkali_cat... |
Title | Dataset for paper entitled 'Microstructure transition gradients in titanium dissimilar alloy (Ti-5Al-5V-5Mo-3Cr/Ti-6Al-4V) tailored wire-arc additively manufactured components' |
Description | Dataset for paper entitled 'Microstructure transition gradients in titanium dissimilar alloy (Ti-5Al-5V-5Mo-3Cr/Ti-6Al-4V) tailored wire-arc additively manufactured components'. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111577 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5820274 |
Title | Dataset for paper entitled, 'Isomorphic grain inoculation in Ti-6Al-4V during additive manufacturing' |
Description | Dataset for paper entitled, 'Isomorphic grain inoculation in Ti-6Al-4V during additive manufacturing'. Abstract: The potential for using isomorphic inoculation (ISI) to grain refine titanium alloys in additive manufacturing was investigated by adding TiAlNb particles to Ti-64 during building test samples. A surviving particle was identified and its crystallographic relationship with the matrix studied by transmission Kikuchi diffraction. The particle and bulk matrix grain were shown to have the same crystallographic orientation, demonstrating that the ISI mechanism of solidification bypasses the nucleation step in favour of direct epitaxial growth. Paper doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mlblux.2020.100057 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5708634 |
Title | Dataset for paper entitled, 'The potential for grain refinement of Wire-Arc Additive Manufactured (WAAM) Ti-6Al-4V by ZrN and TiN inoculation' |
Description | Dataset for paper entitled, 'The potential for grain refinement of Wire-Arc Additive Manufactured (WAAM) Ti-6Al-4V by ZrN and TiN inoculation'. Abstract: Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) of large near-net-shape titanium components has the potential to reduce costs and lead-time in many industrial sectors including aerospace. However, with titanium alloys, such as Ti-6Al-4V, standard WAAM processing conditions result in solidification microstructures comprising large cm- scale, <001> fibre textured, columnar ß grains, which are detrimental to mechanical performance. In order to reduce the size of the solidified ß-grains, as well as refine their columnar morphology and randomise their texture, two cubic nitride phases, TiN and ZrN were investigated as potential grain refining inoculants. To avoid the cost of manufacturing new wire, experimental trials were performed using powder adhered to the surface of the deposited tracks. With TiN particle additions, the ß grain size was successfully reduced and modified from columnar to equiaxed grains, with an average size of 300 µm, while ZrN powder was shown to be ineffective at low addition levels studied. Clusters of TiN particles were found to be responsible for nucleating multiple ß Ti grains. By utilizing the Burgers orientation relationship, EBSD investigation showed that a Kurdjumov-Sachs orientation relationship could be demonstrated between the refined primary ß grains and TiN particles. Paper doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2021.101928 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5708618 |
Title | Dataset: Ben F. Spencer et al., "Characterization of buried interfaces using Ga Ka Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES)" |
Description | Dataset associated with publication, Faraday Discussion (Issue: Photoelectron spectroscopy and the future of surface analysis Faraday Discussion), April 2022, "Characterization of buried interfaces using Ga Ka Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES)." This work demonstrates the capability of HAXPES to obtain elemental and chemical state information below the surface for the detection of buried interfaces non destructively. This is demonstrated in some important materials systems such as semiconductor structures, memory storage materials, ion-implanted graphite, metals with oxide passivation layers, and polymer nanostructures. The data here are shared to support the scientific community working in the area of materials characterisation using similar techniques. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Dataset_Ben_F_Spencer_et_al_Characterization_of_b... |
Title | Dataset: D. Zhao et al., Elucidating the mechanism of self-healing in hydrogel-lead halide perovskite composites for use in photovoltaic devices |
Description | Data associated with paper "Elucidating the mechanism of self-healing in hydrogel-lead halide perovskite composites for use in photovoltaic devices" by D. Zhao et al. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy combined with other characterisation techniques are used to understand photovoltaic devices fabricated using hydrogels exhibiting self-healing properties. XPS is a probe of chemical state and instruments using different photon energies were used to probe this with depth into the surface of the photovoltaic films. These data are shared in order to aid the scientific community particularly focussed in this area of research. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Dataset_D_Zhao_et_al_Elucidating_the_mechanism_of... |
Title | Dataset: Using HAXPES to quantify depth profiles through coatings using glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy (pulsed RF GD-OES) |
Description | Chemical characterization at buried interfaces is a real challenge, as the physico-chemical processes operating at the interface govern the properties of many systems and devices. We have developed a methodology based on the combined use of pulsed RF GD-OES (pulsed Radio Frequency Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectrometry) and XPS (X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) to facilitate the access to deeply buried locations (taking advantage of the high profiling rate of the GD-OES) and perform an accurate chemical diagnosis using XPS directly inside the GD crater. The reliability of the chemical information is, however, influenced by a perturbed layer present at the surface of the crater, hindering traditional XPS examination, due to a relatively short sampling depth. Sampling below the perturbed layer may, however, can be achieved using a higher energy excitation source with an increased sampling depth, and is enabled here by a new laboratory-based HAXPES (Hard X-ray PhotoElectron Spectroscopy) (Ga-Ka, 9.25 keV). Here we attach our dataset of these measurements (Format: Origin 8.5). |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Dataset_Using_HAXPES_to_quantify_depth_profiles_t... |
Title | In-situ Heating-Stage EBSD Validation of Algorithms for Prior-Austenite Grain Reconstruction in Steel |
Description | High temperature EBSD and dilatometry data from the manuscript "In-situ Heating-Stage EBSD Validation of Algorithms for Prior-Austenite Grain Reconstruction in Steel". This includes Gifs of the martensitic and bainitic phase transformations, individual frames as Tiff files and as CTF files. It also includes thermocouple read outs from the in-situ crucible and the raw data from the dilatometry experiments. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/8348371 |
Title | Phase stability of V- based multi-principal element alloys |
Description | The success of fusion power requires alloys with good mechanical properties and the ability to withstand extreme thermal and irradiation conditions without prohibitive levels of activation or structural degradation. Body-centred cubic multi-principal component alloys, V-Cr-Mn and Ti-V-Cr-Mn have shown promising high-temperature stability at 1200°C. For the alloys to be suitable for use in nuclear fusion reactors, they must be stable across a wide range of temperatures relevant to fusion applications. Here, we assess alloy microstructural stability in these systems following long-term heat treatments at various temperatures. Encouragingly, most of the alloys showed no significant change in microstructure across all temperatures. This contrasts with many other multi-principal component alloys, which develop complex microstructures after exposure to intermediate temperatures. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Phase_stability_of_V-_based_multi-principal_element_allo... |
Title | Phase stability of V- based multi-principal element alloys |
Description | The success of fusion power requires alloys with good mechanical properties and the ability to withstand extreme thermal and irradiation conditions without prohibitive levels of activation or structural degradation. Body-centred cubic multi-principal component alloys, V-Cr-Mn and Ti-V-Cr-Mn have shown promising high-temperature stability at 1200°C. For the alloys to be suitable for use in nuclear fusion reactors, they must be stable across a wide range of temperatures relevant to fusion applications. Here, we assess alloy microstructural stability in these systems following long-term heat treatments at various temperatures. Encouragingly, most of the alloys showed no significant change in microstructure across all temperatures. This contrasts with many other multi-principal component alloys, which develop complex microstructures after exposure to intermediate temperatures. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Phase_stability_of_V-_based_multi-principal_element_allo... |
Title | Research data supporting "An investigation of the miscibility gap controlling phase formation in refractory metal high entropy superalloys via the Ti-Nb-Zr constituent system" |
Description | Data corresponding to the figures and tables in the associated paper. Data includes BSE SEM images, SEM EDX elemental distribution maps, TEM HAADF images, TEM diffraction patterns, STEM EDX elemental distribution maps and x-ray diffraction data. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/326462 |
Title | Supplementary information files for Fast in-situ synchrotron X-ray imaging of the interfacial reaction during self-propagating exothermic reactive bonding |
Description | Supplementary files for article Fast in-situ synchrotron X-ray imaging of the interfacial reaction during self-propagating exothermic reactive bonding Self-Propagating Exothermic Reactive (SPER) bonding with lead-free solders is potentially attractive for microelectronics assembly due to its highly localised heating and minimal thermal loading of the components and substrates. The transient dynamics of melting, wetting, solidification and defect formation during SPER bonding were observed using in-situ synchrotron X-ray imaging with sub-millisecond temporal resolution and the results were further analysed using electron microscopy and thermal modelling. In-situ imaging revealed the preferential melting of the solder and subsequent wetting of the substrate. Numerous air bubbles were observed to form at the bonding interface. The distribution of these bubbles was found to vary with the thermal conductivity and wettability of the substrates. These bubbles appear to reduce the effectiveness of bonding by promoting the formation of cracks and voids within the solder joint. Our results show that metallisation layers on the bonding substrate can influence the dynamics of melting for the solder materials and thereby directly influence the reliability of SPER interconnects. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Supplementary_information_files_for_Fast_in-situ_syn... |
Title | Visualizations for paper entitled, "Discontinuous Precipitation in Mg-Al Alloy Studied in 3-Dimensions |
Description | - Author manuscript version of paper entitled, "Discontinuous Precipitation in Mg-Al Alloy Studied in 3-Dimensions". - Visualization for paper entitled, "Discontinuous Precipitation in Mg-Al Alloy Studied in 3-Dimensions". This enables the 3D dataset to be visualized using the free software package Paraview (https://www.paraview.org). Instructions are provided. - Animation created of 3D visualization (using Aviso) NOTE: The full set of raw data used to create the results in the paper is available at:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7108545 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7112790 |
Description | ARPES Diamond |
Organisation | Diamond Light Source |
Department | Beamline I05: ARPES |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Supply of experimental sample of twisted heterostructures |
Collaborator Contribution | ARPES measurements and data analysis |
Impact | No output yet, work in progress |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | ARPES Diamond |
Organisation | University of Warwick |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Supply of experimental sample of twisted heterostructures |
Collaborator Contribution | ARPES measurements and data analysis |
Impact | No output yet, work in progress |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Advanced Fuel Cycle Programme - Provision of academic access to Royce facilities at NNL |
Organisation | Government of the UK |
Department | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Through Advanced Fuel Cycle Programme (AFCP) backing, Royce Partner the UK National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) has taken academic access to the next level. In successfully trialling a new approach while overcoming COVID-19 challenges, NNL has secured opportunities for next-generation nuclear experts to tap into the UK's top infrastructure and complete meaningful clean energy research. Following the AFCP's first user access call last summer, the programme has selected six projects to begin work on the scheme. The call offers the winning academics access to grant-funded equipment at the UK National Nuclear Laboratory's (NNL) world-class facilities, with all costs met by NNL and its funding partners, including the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The equipment, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Royce and National Nuclear User Facility (NNUF), will enable academics to complete strategically important research aligned with AFCP. |
Collaborator Contribution | In successfully navigating and implementing this scheme - especially against the ongoing challenges of COVID-19 - NNL has pioneered a proactive, adaptive approach to user access that will inspire the lab's future collaborative efforts. As a national laboratory, NNL strives to deliver world-leading science that addresses global challenges, from climate change through to nuclear medicine. Collaborating with university partners - and providing opportunities for them to benefit from NNL's unique facilities and equipment - is essential to this aim. For the past five years, the NNL user access team has arranged academic access to the lab. However, NNL's leadership role within AFCP has marked a step change to make this call possible - becoming one of the team's most significant initiatives to date. This user access call was NNL's response to unique academic needs, including resource availability and timescales, that can make accessing facilities difficult. After examining best practice across industry, NNL arranged a fully funded call through AFCP that, prior to launching, could proactively address common academic obstacles. |
Impact | The call has presented an invaluable opportunity to keep the UK at the forefront of advanced fuel cycle research, skills and infrastructure. With BEIS and AFCP as central members of the call, the scheme supports key research areas to help decarbonise the UK economy as part of the UK Government's Clean Growth Strategy. Given the call's collaborative model, the stakeholders involved were also able to maximise benefits for all participants while uniquely addressing many of the common obstacles that academic users have previously faced. While NNL planned the call well before the impact of COVID-19 was understood, its timing introduced important safety considerations to the scheme. Although the pandemic did not affect details of the call process itself, NNL had to swiftly adapt to the situation and continue to set safety as its top priority. NNL has undertaken a robust risk assessment process with continuous review to ensure it performs all work safely and to the satisfaction of everyone involved. One option to maintain research momentum is remote access, where academics can send their samples and instructions to NNL for the lab to complete work on their behalf. This approach works well while necessary due to travel restrictions and limitations on the number of individuals working in labs. However, to maximise benefits to both academics and NNL, the team is committed to providing opportunities for physical access as part of the call once this can be done safely. NNL aspires to improve the process by exploring innovative ideas to improve the future remote user experience. The call has been immensely successful beyond its behind-the-scenes operations. NNL received a total of sixteen highly competitive applications from universities across the UK. The depth and breadth of submissions demonstrated the high calibre of commitment, enthusiasm and value across academic teams, which together paint an encouraging picture of the UK's advanced fuel cycle research landscape. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Alpla |
Organisation | Alpla |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | Alpla have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding but left the consortium in 2021 due to pandemic challenges. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Argent Energy |
Organisation | Argent Energy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Argent Energy invited to attend meetings and workshops for work package 1 and Circular Fashion project |
Collaborator Contribution | Attending meetings, workshops and discussions around off-taking re-processed chemicals |
Impact | Partnership with Argent Energy as a potential off-taker for any re-processed chemicals |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Axion Polymers |
Organisation | Axion |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop. Attended kick-off meeting for the Sustainable Hospital project |
Impact | Axion Polymers have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | B&M Longworth |
Organisation | B&M Longworth |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Analysis of data supplied by B&M Longworth |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided fabrics to the Textiles project for chromatographic and spectroscopic testing. KTP associate employed by company to work between University of Manchester and B&M Longworth. |
Impact | KTP with B&M Longworth on recycling materials in waste carpets. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | BASF |
Organisation | BASF |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | BASF |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | BBSRC Industrial CASE studentship: Glaxo Smith Klein |
Organisation | GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) |
Department | GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | GSK are interested in developing in vitro models of organs for a drug discovery purposes. We have developed a novel concept and GSK are interested in assessing its applicability. |
Collaborator Contribution | Support for a studentship |
Impact | Too early in project for outputs |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Bangor University |
Organisation | Bangor University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | UoM provide empirical data to Bangor University for modelling as well as access to research project materials results etc. |
Collaborator Contribution | Bangor provide academic time to NuFAN steering group committee and in-kind modelling simualtion |
Impact | Collaborative meetings at steering group but no common outputs to date yet. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | BooHoo |
Organisation | boohoo.com |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We are ordering clothing direct from BooHoo to conduct chemical recycling tests to explore alternative recycling solutions. The team have also been in discussions to understand the policy context and corporate appetite for establishing a circular economy around fashion in the region |
Collaborator Contribution | Boohoo collect (via customer returns & faults) and supply relevant polyester waste feedstock and deliver to the University of Manchester in agreed quantities/timings. |
Impact | On-going partnership |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Braskem |
Organisation | Bracket Global |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | Braskem have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Braskem |
Organisation | Braskem |
Country | Brazil |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to participate in One Bin project meetings and workshops. PDRA has conducted semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | Braskem are confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us but declined to continue in the One Bin SSPP project. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Centre for Process Innovation |
Organisation | Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to participate in One Bin project meetings and workshops. PDRA has conducted semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry. Collaboration has now evolved to include proposed National Packaging Innovation Centre. |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop. Established collaborative relationship between Re3 project, One Bin To Rule Them All, and Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub. |
Impact | CPI are confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding. New relationship supports links between Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub and CPI's proposed National Packaging Innovation Centre. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | CoOp |
Organisation | The Co-operative Group Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to attend several RE3 workshops and meetings. PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended several workshops in work package 1 and 2 of the RE3 Project, including a Discussion Day workshop for the One Bin project. Connected the Invisible Plastics project to suppliers of fresh spring water. Providing packaging materials, industrial expertise and knowledge surrounding current materials used in packaging and their shortcomings for the Degradables project. Attended stakeholder engagement meeting for the Sustainable Hospitals project. Also a member of the RE3 Advisory Board. |
Impact | The Co Op have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Collaboration with NPL |
Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Exchange of samples and staff; materials development and characterisation |
Collaborator Contribution | Measurement of samples and staff exchange |
Impact | Purchase of capital research equipment by NPL and placement at UoM Funding of researcher |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Collaboration with Oxford Uni. (diamond) |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | P-NAME facility (experimental capability and sources developed in WP1) materials development and characterisation |
Collaborator Contribution | materials development and characterisation |
Impact | not yet applicable |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Collaboration with Queen Mary University London |
Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | P-NAME facility (experimental capability and sources developed in WP1) materials development and characterisation |
Collaborator Contribution | materials development and characterisation |
Impact | not yet applicable |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Collaboration with Uni. of Cambridge (diamond) |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | P-NAME facility (experimental capability and sources developed in WP1) materials development and characterisation |
Collaborator Contribution | materials development and characterisation |
Impact | not yet applicable |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Collaboration with Uni. of Glasgow |
Organisation | University of Glasgow |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | P-NAME facilities (experimental capabilities and sources developed in WP1) Mn Ion implantation on GaAs material with InAs QD's |
Collaborator Contribution | GaAs material |
Impact | Collaborator moved to University of Cambridge. New collaboration established. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Collaboration with Uni. of Melbourne |
Organisation | University of Melbourne |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | P-NAME facility (experimental capabilities and sources developed in WP1) materials development |
Collaborator Contribution | materials development |
Impact | not yet applicable |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Collaboration with Uni. of Southampton |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Use of P-NAME (experimental capabilities and sources developed in WP1) Photonics materials development and characterisation |
Collaborator Contribution | Photonics materials development and characterisation |
Impact | Not yet applicable |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Commonwealth Split Site Studentship |
Organisation | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |
Country | India |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Joint Supervision of a research student, two 6 month visitits of research student to manchester |
Collaborator Contribution | Provision of student support for 12 momths |
Impact | Papers submitted and currently under review. Facilities access Diamond Synchrotron |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | CuanTec |
Organisation | CuanTec |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to participate in One Bin project meetings and workshops. PDRA has conducted semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry. Explored potential funding bids together. |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop. Exploration of potential funding bids, although no further projects pursued as they wished for work to be conducted free of charge. |
Impact | We explored CuanTec's products through several workshops and free consultancy, however they expected all work to be free of charge and we were thus unable to continue the collaboration. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | CuanTec |
Organisation | CuanTec |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | CuanTec have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | DSposal |
Organisation | DSposal |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop. Also working with SustHosp Project to explore NHS data sets possibly available further to EPSRC meeting. |
Impact | DSposal have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Delphis Eco |
Organisation | Delphis Eco |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development of techniques to quantify recycled content in plastics and packaging |
Collaborator Contribution | Development of trust mark cerficiation. |
Impact | Exploring collaboration opportunities |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Delphis Eco |
Organisation | Delphis Eco |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development of methodologies to determine recycled content in plastics and packaging. |
Collaborator Contribution | Development of TrustMark certificate to encourage increased recycled content in plastic packaging. |
Impact | Delphis Eco have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore collaborative projects together. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Derwen Aggregates |
Organisation | Derwen Aggregates |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to participate in One Bin project meetings and workshops. PDRA has conducted semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | Derwen Aggregates are confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Derwen Aggregates |
Organisation | Dezeen Limited |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | Derwen Aggregates have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Digital printing antimicrobial/antibiofilm materials onto moisture sensitive advanced woundcare substrates |
Organisation | 5D Health Protection Group Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Developed an inkjet delivery mechanism to apply antimicrobial compounds to wound dressings. |
Collaborator Contribution | Tested the anti-microbial efficacy of the printed medical devices |
Impact | In progress |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Faerch |
Organisation | Faerch |
Country | Denmark |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop for the One Bin Project. |
Impact | Faerch have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | GBvi |
Organisation | GBVi |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Trials using graphene inks for printing optical components |
Collaborator Contribution | Testing of product for applications |
Impact | Preliminary trials possibly leading to longer term project |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Henry Royce Institute - Element Materials Technology |
Organisation | Element Materials Technology Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Element have agreed to fund 3 PhD programmes across Royce Partners (two in Manchester and one in Sheffield). |
Collaborator Contribution | Element have agreed to fund 3 PhD programmes across Royce Partners (two in Manchester and one in Sheffield). |
Impact | - |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Imaging of Biological Printing for High Throughput Applications (IAA Proof of Concept Award with FFEI Ltd.) |
Organisation | FFEI |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The University of Manchester is a pioneer in the field of cell printing and has been working in the field for over 10 years with EPSRC funding supporting Ph.D. studentships, A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship(Dr. R.E. Saunders), EPSRC grant support with the most recent to Derby being EP/L012022/1 and BBSRC support e.g. BB/N01250X/1. It has also featured in the Doctoral Training Programme in Regenerative Medicine and is an important component of the Henry Royce Institute Biomaterials Theme EP/P025021/1 and EP/R00661X/1. Manchester has considerable experience in printing a range of cells and exploring the physical science aspects of the process, e.g. influence of shear flow and acoustic effects on cell viability, and machine and process development to optimise viability. The integration of cell printing with high throughput analysis remains unexplored commercially. The proposed project will exploit the several years of experience accumulated in Manchester on successful cell deposition, placement, patterning for applications in tissue engineering, medical engineering and organ-on-a-chip technology. This will provide basic understanding for the integration of a bioprinter with the imaging technology skills of the industrial partner. |
Collaborator Contribution | FFEI has significant, existing commercial expertise in digital scanning for whole-slide imaging in pathology and manufacturing of digital inkjet engines. This project will investigate, for the first time, combining high throughput cell printing (Manchester) and high-throughput scanning analysis techniques (FFEI) for application to drug discovery, tissue engineering and medical diagnostics.High-throughput printing of cells and biological material into discrete formations, followed by highly variable over-printing and simultaneous digital analysis, offers an all-in-one solution that is currentlynot available. This presents opportunity for FFEI to integrate and manufacture project outputs to approach new markets. The IAA proof of concept data produced will lead to a future novel and commercially viable life science device that can be developed further by FFEI. |
Impact | Early stages of collaboration - no outputs yet |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Industrial Collaboration Project (ICP) round 1 |
Organisation | Industry Partners |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The Industrial Collaboration Programme round 1 (ICP1) funded projects aligned to one or more of Royce's core research areas: • Atoms to Devices • 2-Dimensional Materials • Advanced Metals Processing • Nuclear Materials • Materials for Demanding Environments • Chemical Materials Design • Electrochemical Systems • Biomedical Materials It matched companies that had research, development, and innovation (RD&I) projects with UK experts in materials science and cutting-edge facilities in a truly collaborative endeavour. Awards were intended to provide access to both state-of-the-art Royce facilities, located nationwide, and to world leading UK scientific expertise to address barriers to advanced materials development |
Collaborator Contribution | Applications for the Royce Industrial Collaboration Programme (ICP) must be submitted via a Royce Partner and include the use of Royce Partner capability. Awards were between £75k to £100k per project (from Royce) and will cover up to 80% of the full economic cost for HEIs and up to 100% for businesses with an expected duration of 3 - 6 months. |
Impact | • Number of projects awarded: 5 • The value (funded by the Royce core grant): £263,422 • The number of HEIs engaged: 4 • The number of industry partners engaged: 5 • The number of RTOs engaged:0 |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Industrial Collaboration Project (ICP) round 2 and Materials Challenge Accelerator Programme (MCAP) |
Organisation | Industry Partners |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The Industrial Collaboration Programme round 2 (ICP2) aimed to match businesses of all sizes and research organisations that have research, development and innovation (RD&I) activities with Royce capabilities, and the programme will see projects ranging from development of advances in materials for the hydrogen economy, advanced nuclear reactors and the foundation industries through to tracking recycled content in plastics, establishing Artificial Intelligence in Additive Manufacturing and 2D materials for pharmaceuticals. The Materials Challenge Accelerator (MCAP) funding focussed on support for higher education institutions, research technology organisations, and SMEs in the UK, and was aimed at accelerating priority areas for innovation identified in the Royce National Materials Challenge roadmaps and landscape documents. Projects here range from corrosion control for Offshore Wind Turbines, developments in advanced metals and materials for nuclear fusion through to next-generation photovoltaics, circularising ceramics processing and 3D printing materials development. |
Collaborator Contribution | Applications for the Royce Industrial Collaboration Programme (ICP) was required to be submitted via a Royce Partner and include the use of Royce Partner capability. Awards were up to £250,000 for ICP2 and up to £100,000 for MCAP per project. Royce funded 80% of the full economic cost and 100% for any Royce facilities included, with an expected duration of 3 - 6 months. |
Impact | ICP2022 • Number of projects awarded: 25 • The value (funded by the Royce core grant): £3,054,559.30 • The number of HEIs engaged: 7 • The number of industry partners engaged:22 • The number of RTOs engaged: 3 MCAP 2022 • Number of projects awarded: 37 • The value (funded by the Royce core grant): £2,620,009.36 • The number of HEIs engaged: 22 • The number of industry partners engaged: 17 • The number of RTOs engaged: 5 |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Industrial Collaboration Project (ICP) round 3 |
Organisation | Industry Partners |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The Industrial Collaboration Programme round 3 aimed to match companies that have research, development, and innovation (RD&I) projects with UK experts in materials science and cutting-edge facilities to accelerate the transfer of new technologies. UK based higher education institutions and universities, research and technology organisations, charity or not-for-profit organisations and businesses of any size will all be eligible for funding awards as project leads or collaborators. Royce is especially looking to support projects which focus on developing new products, processes or services that represent a step change over those currently available or propose an innovative use of existing products or processes. Each project, for which an award between £75,000 and £125,000 is available, will be funded for a 5-month project. Successful applications will be able to leverage Royce's national capability to support their RD&I activity, including access to dedicated applications scientists and world leading research facilities. |
Collaborator Contribution | The grants were awarded under the Subsidy Control Act 2022 under Research, development, and Innovation Streamlined Subsidy Scheme. This determined funding by the type of recipient (University, RTO, or business). For companies, the grant aid intensity was affected by the company's size (Small, Medium, or Large), and the project's research, development, and innovation classification (feasibility study, industrial research, or experimental development), see below table. All Royce facilities costs are funded at 100%. Academic organisations and research and technology organisations undertaking non-economic activity obtained the following funding: - Up to 80% of full economic costs (FEC) for UK Je-S registered institutions, or - 100% of project costs for RTO, charity and not-for-profit organisations Feasibility study Industrial research Experimental development Small Enterprise 70% 70% 45% Medium Enterprise 60% 60% 35% Large enterprise 25% 25% 25% Fundamental research projects were ineligible for funding. |
Impact | • Number of projects awarded: 49 • The value (funded by the Royce core grant): £4,361,562.78 (This may end up being lower when the claims come in at the end of March and April) • The number of HEIs engaged: 24 • The number of industry partners engaged: 41 SMEs and 15 Large Enterprises • The number of RTOs engaged: 7 |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Ionoptika (P-NAME) |
Organisation | Ionoptika |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development of enhanced tool for ion-doping and funding through RCUK and Institutional sources. Development of new alloy materials and sources for use in doping technologies. |
Collaborator Contribution | Commercialisation of enhanced tool for ion-doping and new ion sources. |
Impact | Commercial tool now developed (Q-One) by UK SME. New software for ion control developed. New ion sources developed. Interdisciplinary: metallurgy, physics, engineering |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Joint collaborative research project with IAEA on small scale testing standardisation for nuclear materials |
Organisation | International Atomic Energy Agency |
Country | Austria |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Joint collaborative testing of specified materials over a multi year project, working towards standardising testing methods, sampling sizes and sample preparation methods for small amounts of nuclear materials for future reactor designs. |
Collaborator Contribution | Testing of known materials to set parameters - contribution of dataset. |
Impact | Will be an IAEA TECDOC, still in preparation as still active. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | M&I Materials |
Organisation | M&I Materials Limited |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Technical advice, research programme development and networking |
Collaborator Contribution | Secondment of staff member |
Impact | New materials developed and knowledge transferred |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | MIT |
Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Access to ion irradiated materials and secondments of PI to MIT in ~2024 to undertake experiments on ion irradiated uranium materials |
Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at steering group committees and feedback on projects results to date and planning of experiments on thermal measurements to be undertaken at MIT ~2024 on uranium active samples |
Impact | Attendance at steering group committees and feedback on projects results to date and planning of experiments on thermal measurements to be undertaken at MIT ~2024 on uranium active samples. No outputs to date |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Memorandum Of Understanding / Engineering, Safety & Risk Technology Ltd / University of Manchester (UOM) / Henry Royce Institute Bilateral 2019 |
Organisation | ESR Technology |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | ESR Technology and the Henry Royce Institute are to work in collaboration for the advancement of tribology and advanced materials engineering |
Collaborator Contribution | Both ESR and The Royce have been proactive in supporting this partnership in terms of work packages. Meetings have taken place on a regular basis over the past year to explore further ways of working together in a synergistic manner to support UK business |
Impact | ESR attended the Advanced Nuclear Materials Workshop held by Royce on 27th February 2020 and fully contributed to the research proposal outputs. These outputs will be delivered to government and various funding councils. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Memorandum of Understanding: Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) / Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC) / University of Manchester / Henry Royce Institute |
Organisation | Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The MOU defines how the KCMC, CPI and the Henry Royce institute will work together in the areas of materials chemistry and advanced materials. Members of the Institute's Business Development Team and Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry will meet regularly which will help companies discover, develop, scale-up and bring new advanced materials to market. |
Collaborator Contribution | The KCMC and CPI have been proactive in supporting this partnership we have met on a regular basis over the last six months to explore ways of working together in a synergistic manner to support UK business. |
Impact | New agreement this should impact on all areas where materials chemistry and advanced materials research overlap. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Merck Case Award |
Organisation | Merck |
Department | Merck R&D UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Provide methods for ink development using 2D materials. Develop strategies for solvent and particle selection. |
Collaborator Contribution | Cash contribution for research and student support. Supply of materials. Supply of Staff time. |
Impact | None as yet |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | NHS |
Organisation | National Health Service |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Hospitals |
PI Contribution | Through stakeholder interviews and analysis of real data researchers were able to identify and map unused and single-use polymers (work package 1) in a hospital setting |
Collaborator Contribution | NHS stakeholders provided real NHS data and gave ward tours to assist with Work Package 1 on the Sustainable Hospitals project |
Impact | Identification and mapping of unused and single-use polymers through supplier production/hospital procurement data led by Dr Sharmina (MACE - Tyndall). Carly Fisher (PDRA with Maria) presented the approach of material flow mapping and literature review findings. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | NNL |
Organisation | National Nuclear Laboratory |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Access to research data and results from the project to date |
Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at steering group committees and feedback on projects results to date |
Impact | Attendance at steering group committees and feedback on projects results to date |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Nestlé |
Organisation | Nestlé (Global) |
Department | Nestlé UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | Nestlé have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - Call for Provision of academic access to Royce facilities at NNL (2022 - Still Active) |
Organisation | National Nuclear Laboratory |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Research project proposals published via NDA on nuclear garphite, advanced fuels and legacy glass & ceramic waste characterisation. |
Collaborator Contribution | Research proposals published via NDA strategy team |
Impact | NA - too early in process as of March 2023 |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority - Call for Provision of academic access to Royce facilities at NNL (2022 - Still Active) |
Organisation | Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDA |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Research project proposals published via NDA on nuclear garphite, advanced fuels and legacy glass & ceramic waste characterisation. |
Collaborator Contribution | Research proposals published via NDA strategy team |
Impact | NA - too early in process as of March 2023 |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | PZ Cussons |
Organisation | PZ Cussons |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | PZ Cussons have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding but have left the consortium due to challenges surrounding COVID-19 and their current business. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Plastics Europe |
Organisation | PlasticsEurope |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Invited to contribute to several workshops and meetings. Gave presentations on their strength and concerns in the plastics recycling industry. |
Collaborator Contribution | Attended stakeholder engagement meetings for the Sustainable Hospitals project. Member of the RE3 Advisory Board. |
Impact | On-going partnership |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Polytag |
Organisation | Polytag |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | Polytag have signed an NDA and are a confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | SUEZ |
Organisation | SUEZ worldwide |
Country | France |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to participate in One Bin project meetings and workshops. PDRA has conducted semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | SUEZ are confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project and are partners on our follow-on funding project through ISCF Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Programme. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Sainsbury's |
Organisation | Sainsbury's |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to participate in One Bin project meetings and workshops. PDRA has conducted semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | Sainsbury's are confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Samsung |
Organisation | Samsung |
Country | Korea, Republic of |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to attend several RE3 workshops and meetings. |
Collaborator Contribution | Member of the Advisory Board. Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended several workshops in work package 1 and 2 of the RE3 Project, |
Impact | N/A |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | TBG ARPES |
Organisation | Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided experimental samples, carried out discussions and manuscript writing. |
Collaborator Contribution | ARPES experiments, ARPES data analysis, theoretical modelling and manuscript writing. |
Impact | Publication in NanoLetters: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsnano.1c06439# |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | TBG ARPES |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided experimental samples, carried out discussions and manuscript writing. |
Collaborator Contribution | ARPES experiments, ARPES data analysis, theoretical modelling and manuscript writing. |
Impact | Publication in NanoLetters: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsnano.1c06439# |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Tesco |
Organisation | Tesco Plc |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to contribute to several workshops and meetings. Gave presentations on their strength and concerns in the plastics recycling industry. PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry. |
Collaborator Contribution | Providing packaging materials, industrial expertise and knowledge surrounding current materials used in packaging and their shortcomings for the Degradables project. Member of the RE3 Advisory Board. New project collaborating on quantifying recycled content in plastic packaging. |
Impact | On-going partnership |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | The Henry Royce Institute, CPI, the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC): Memorandum of Understanding |
Organisation | Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The Henry Royce Institute and CPI, the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC) have announced a collaboration that will enable the organisations to work together to help UK companies develop and commercialise products that use new advanced materials. This collaboration is underpinned by a memorandum of understanding and will increase opportunities for collaboration between UK businesses and academia through the application of materials chemistry. Innovative solutions to global challenges can be brought to market at a reduced risk by combining the complementary facilities, expertise and networks of each organisation. |
Collaborator Contribution | CPI works with partners to translate inventions into products and processes that enhance health and wellbeing, protect and improve our environment and increase productivity across industries. Through a breadth of technology platforms, CPI supports partners across many diverse markets, including pharmaceuticals, speciality chemicals, food and drink, electronics and transportation. Under the new MoU, Royce will work closely with CPI and KCMC and UK companies to help establish science-based collaborations. CPI will use its considerable expertise and facilities to help companies scale-up the production of new materials and products developed in collaboration with Royce academics. The work driven by this MoU will help deliver Royce's vision of 'advanced materials for a sustainable society'. |
Impact | N/A |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Henry Royce Institute: Memorandum of Understanding |
Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Henry Royce Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), stating a commitment to collaborate further and formalising strategic engagement. The signing of the MoU is an initial step towards the joint ambition to develop the concept of a National Advanced Materials Verification Centre to serve the UK advanced materials community and to provide confidence and accelerate the commercialisation of these game-changing materials. Initially the collaboration will focus on the key innovation challenge for advanced materials, namely building confidence in the repeatability and reproducibility of the characterisation of the materials, through NPL's measurement expertise and Royce's state of the art facilities. It will also support the development of postgraduate doctoral and broader training in the above areas. |
Collaborator Contribution | As the UK's National Metrology Institute, NPL recognises that innovation in advanced materials is crucial in helping to solve many of the grand challenges we see in our world today, from energy and transport to healthcare and the digital economy. Our experts bridge the gap between academic discovery and industrial implementation, developing the required measurement science that provides confidence in the performance and long-term reliability of materials in real world applications. |
Impact | N/A |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Unilever |
Organisation | Unilever |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to contribute to several workshops and meetings. Gave presentations on their strength and concerns in the plastics recycling industry. PDRA has also been conducting semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry. |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in several workshops during work packages 1 and 2 of the RE3 Project. Gave semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop for the One Bin project. Providing packaging materials, industrial expertise and knowledge surrounding current materials used in packaging and their shortcomings for the Degradables project |
Impact | Unilever collaborate on a number of projects including (a) One Bin To Rule Them All, (b) PCR Characterisation, (c) Sustainable Formulations and (d) Big Data in Mechanical Recycling |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | University of Basel |
Organisation | University of Basel |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Samples of magnetic 2D materials fabricated in UHV suite have been supllies to the group of Prof. Maletinski (Basel) for NV magnetometry measurements. Publications pending. |
Collaborator Contribution | The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is an atomic-scale defect in diamond. It hosts an electronic spin that can be initialized and detected optically, making it an exceptional system for quantum sensing of magnetic phenomena. The group of Prof. Maletinski are world leading specialists in this imaging technique and are conducting scanning cryogenic NV magnetimetry for in atomically thin 2D magnets. |
Impact | no outputs yet |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | University of Oxford |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Research partnership to examine the surface measurements of ion beam irradiation induced changes in thermal properties and validation against neutron irradiated data. |
Collaborator Contribution | Undertaken work to develop PDRA at UoM and make measurements of samples |
Impact | No outputs or outcomes yet from partnership |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Viridor |
Organisation | Viridor |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Invited to participate in One Bin project meetings and workshops. PDRA has conducted semi-structured interview to identify their major concerns and issues with the plastic recycling industry |
Collaborator Contribution | Took part in semi-structured interviews and attended Discussion Day workshop |
Impact | Viridor are confirmed project partners who wish to continue to explore the One Bin project with us including applications for further funding |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | WRAP |
Organisation | Waste and Resources Action Programme |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Invited to attend several WP1 & 2 workshops and meetings. Invited to Chair RE3 Advisory Board and have oversight of RE3 projects |
Collaborator Contribution | Chairs RE3 Advisory Board, whose goal it is to ensure the overarching project is progressing in the right direction. Both the overall project team and individual sub-projects report to the Advisory Board |
Impact | On-going Partnership |
Start Year | 2019 |
Title | GRAPHITE DECONTAMINATION |
Description | The present invention relates to methods of decontaminating irradiated nuclear graphite. The method comprises immersing the irradiated nuclear graphite in a molten salt electrolyte, and subjecting the irradiated nuclear graphite to an electrochemical treatment. |
IP Reference | WO2021250413 |
Protection | Patent granted |
Year Protection Granted | 2021 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | - |
Company Name | Aletheia Imaging Solutions |
Description | Aletheia Imaging Solutions designs and manufactures bespoke spatial targets for x-ray computer tomography. |
Year Established | 2021 |
Impact | - |
Website | http://www.aletheia-imaging.com/#/ |
Company Name | Nanoplexus |
Description | Nanoplexus develops a range of novel materials for use in a range of industries. |
Year Established | 2019 |
Impact | Eli and Britt Harari Award winner. |
Website | https://nanoplexus.co.uk/ |
Company Name | QV Bioelectronics |
Description | QV Bioelectronics develops electrotherapeutic implanted medical devices designed to slow brain tumour growth. |
Year Established | 2018 |
Impact | Winner the Eli and Britt Harari Award for Graphene Enterprise. Member of the Alderley Park Accelerator Program Joined the RebelBio Accelerator which secured them an investment of $130,000 BioCap 2019 Pitch Competition winner |
Website | http://www.honeycomb-biotech.co.uk |
Company Name | Recon2 Limited |
Description | Recon 2 is a not-for-profit spin-out company from the University of Manchester that provides a low-cost method for certifying the recycled content in plastic products and packaging, using a patented fluorescent marking technology. |
Year Established | 2022 |
Impact | Consortium of early adopters including major multinational brands, grocery stores, recyclers and packaging producers. |
Website | http://reconsquared.com/ |
Company Name | SmartIR |
Description | SmartIR develops flexible and lightweight graphene systems and coatings designed to mask thermal signatures from infrared imaging. |
Year Established | 2020 |
Impact | Commercially sensitive. |
Website | https://www.smartir.co.uk/ |
Description | 2022 Enzyme Engineering XXVI, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk given to Research Institute at Georgia Tech, participants were other academics as well as post-graduate students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | 2023 Novel Enzymes Conference, Greifswald, Germany |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk given to Research Institute at Georgia Tech, participants were other academics as well as post-graduate students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | 2023 Research Symposium, Merck & Co. Rahway, USA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A presentation was given on the work within my Research Group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | 2023 Research Symposium, Princeton University, USA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A talk was given at Princeton University on the ongoing work within my Research Group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | 3D Bioprinting for Healthcare Applications 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 | Training course jointly organised by the Henry Royce Institute and Regenhu focusing on 3D bioprinting for healthcare applications. Delegates were updated on the latest developments around 3D bioprinting for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. Speakers from academic and industry outlined their experiences, including the challenges and opportunities associated with this research area. Training was also provided on computed aided design for 3D bioprinting and on 3D bioprinting of biological constructs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/3d-bioprinting-for-healthcare-applications-training-event-tickets-164... |
Description | 3D Bioprinting in Space |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A 2-day workshop organized by ESA, DLR and TU Dresden with the goal to discuss potentials of 3D bioprinting for space applications and to identify important preparatory research tasks to get bioprinting ready for takeoff. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://react.regasus.de/portal/react/registration/personal |
Description | 3rd Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy International Conference, Sheffield |
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 | University of Lancaster - Complimentary activity for Health and Innovation Campus Development project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.lsfm2016.org/ |
Description | Accelerating the Discovery, Manufacture and Translation of Biomedical Materials |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | News article published in June 2021 focused on biomedical materials research taking place at the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/accelerating-the-discovery-manufacture-and-translation-of-biome... |
Description | Advanced Acquisition and Analysis of Image-based Data Workshop |
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 | Workshop (June 2021) focusing on the challenges related to the acquisition, reconstruction, visualisation and analysis of large 2D+time, 3D, 3D+time and 4D+image datasets. The event was supported by The Alan Turing Institute, National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT), the Henry Royce Institute and the CCPi (University of Manchester). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-advanced-acquisition-and-analysis-of-image-based-data-ticket... |
Description | Advanced Biomedical Materials CDT Showcase (2021) |
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 | Showcase (June 2021) aimed at industry colleagues who would like to find out more about the Advanced Biomedical Materials Centre for Doctoral Training. It was also an opportunity for industry to collaborate with academics from the Henry Royce Institute and learn how to access state-of-the-art facilities to develop cutting-edge solutions for the UK's rapidly growing ageing population. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/advanced-biomedical-materials-cdt-showcase/ |
Description | Advanced Materials in Medicine Launch Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The AMM network based at the University of Manchester (which has close links to the Royce Biomedical Materials theme) held its launch event on 16th January. Dr Johnny Blaker (Deputy Champion) presented the Biomedical Materials research landscape and Royce capability to representatives from research and academia. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://www.royce.ac.uk/events/amm-launch |
Description | Advanced Nuclear Materials Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | On 27th February 2020, Royce hosted an Advanced Nuclear Materials Workshop with over 100 representatives from across the Partners alongside BEIS, EPSRC, NDA and other UK universities. During the workshop UKAEA, NNL, Manchester and Oxford presented capabilities for nuclear materials research including NNUF facilities. In the afternoon, working groups looked to develop new project ideas to put forward to funders. www.royce.ac.uk/news/advanced-nuclear-materials-workshop-2 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Advanced segmentation techniques in Avizo - NXCT software training on Avizo for visualisation of X-ray CT data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Software training on Avizo for visualisation of X-ray CT data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Alderley Park Accelerator (Biohub), Science Seminar Series: Electrical Stimulation to Promote Bone Tissue Growth, January 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Hosted National talk to an audience of 30 people at Alderley Park science seminar, 2019. Focusing on electrical stimulation to promote bone tissue growth. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.alderleypark.co.uk/upcoming-events/2019/1/31/science-seminar-electrical-stimulation-to-p... |
Description | Analysing your XPS data 2 -Technical Skills Hands on data surgery for XPS data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Data analysis training course delivered by the XPS Manchester team. It covered several pieces of Royce kit and information on accessing facilities across the rest of the institute. It aimed to help researchers better understand and begin the interpretation of their XPS data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Applied Diffraction Refinement - Royce Technical Skills Training on Xray diffraction methods |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Introduction to techniques and methods used to prepare and analyse experimental data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Applied Diffraction Refinement - Technical Skills Training on Xray diffraction methods |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Technical Skills Training on the Introduction to techniques and methods used to prepare and analyse experimental data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Article in Materials World |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Article published highlighting collaborations and specific work between Royce partners in the UK in nuclear materials, and the nuclear Royce facilities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Atoms to Devices Engagement event |
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 | Community engagement event for Atoms to Devices Theme of Royce held at Leeds. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | BBC TV interview |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | BBC NORTH WEST TONIGHT: Sellafield decommisioning |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bptlk1 |
Description | Biomedical Materials Showcase: Biofabrication and 3D Printing for Biomedical Applications |
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 | Showcase focusing on Royce facilities in biofabrication and 3D printing, as well as opportunities for access and collaboration. The event connected experts to share and advance knowledge, expertise and best practice in biofabrication and 3D printing applications for healthcare. The aim was to foster collaborations across the industrial, academic and clinical communities for future challenges in biomedical materials research, translation and regulation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/showcase-biofabrication-3d-printing/ |
Description | Biotrans 2023 La Rochelle, France |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A presentation was given on the ongoing work within my Research Group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Bragg Centre Opening University of Leeds 2022 |
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 new centre for research into the analysis and development of advanced materials has launched at the University of Leeds. The Bragg Centre brings together engineers, physical scientists, and materials science researchers from across the University, further removing boundaries between disciplines and opening up new ways of working. The Centre aims to discover, create, characterise, and exploit materials engineered at the atomic and molecular level. Its interdisciplinary research combines the fundamental understanding, design, modelling and fabrication of materials to lead to new devices, systems and applications. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/university-of-leeds-open-new-bragg-centre-for-materials-research/ |
Description | Bruker Nano Surfaces: Nanowizard V Workshop 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | In partnership with Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology, the workshop will be an opportunity to learn about the NanoWizard V BioAFM and the research taking place at The University of Sheffield using AFM technology. Practical demonstrations will be available on the day. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
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 | Cameca Success Story |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Interviewed by Cameca hired journalists who wrote a 'Success story' on my plant science research with the NanoSIMS instrument specifically featuring the research undertaken in the CROPNUT grant. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.cameca.com/company/news/2021/february/success-story-manchester |
Description | Conference talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Gave a talk at the Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) 2022 international conference discussing the NanoSIMS results acquired as part of this project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.microscopy.org/MandM/2022/ |
Description | DALTON CUMBRIAN FACILITY OPEN EVENT - 14 November 2023 |
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 | The Dalton Cumbrian Facility (DCF) is a state-of-art complex for The University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute, where academia and industry carry out world-leading research and deliver dedicated skills development programmes. Research focuses on radiation, nuclear engineering decommissioning and management of radioactive waste. Facilities include the ion-beam accelerator hall, which contains extensive irradiation equipment, and an adjoining building containing analytical/inspection laboratories, office accommodation, meeting/seminar rooms and a computer modelling capability. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/dalton-cumbrian-facility-open-event/ |
Description | DISCOVER MATERIALS AT CHELTENHAM SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Discover Materials members and ambassadors ran an activity-packed Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) workshop for three groups of 11-14 year olds and their teachers to mark the opening of Cheltenham Science Festival 2022. The visiting groups of students at the STEM festival learned all about what makes MSE so exciting before getting stuck in to a range of hands-on activities to apply lessons in interesting and engaging ways. The students were finally presented with a challenge to report back on what they had learned in order to crack a code to unlock a secret stash of chocolate bars hidden within a treasure chest |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Dialogue between Science and Technology Facilities Council |
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 | Meeting with Science and Technology Facilities Council (Philip Carvil) to discuss future opportunities with Royce. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://stfc.ukri.org/research/ |
Description | Dialogue between UoM and Medical Discoveries Catapult |
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 | Meeting with Sally Price, representative from Medical Discoveries Catapult to discuss future plans involving Royce. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Digital Volume Correlation Analysis Workshop |
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 | Workshop (May 2021) focusing on digital volume correlation presented by both academic and industrial leaders, providing specific insights on use, reliability and further exploitation in different areas of materials science and engineering. The event was supported by the National Research Facility in lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT), the Henry Royce Institute, the CCPi (University of Manchester) and the Zeiss Global Centre (University of Portsmouth). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ccpi.ac.uk/node/900 |
Description | Digital film of the capabilities and equipment in the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An film of the capabilities and equipment in the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub for the purpose of showcasing the work of the SMI Hub to a general audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7UfGgyWnhs |
Description | Dimensional X-ray Computed Tomography Conference 2022 |
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 conference will present and disseminate the latest developments in XCT for dimensional measurement and its industrial impact across a variety of applications. Academics, industrialists and engineers from a wide range of disciplines, will have the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas, results and showcase their latest research at this international forum, featuring a series of keynote addresses from experts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/dxct-conference-2022/ |
Description | Discover Materials Open Week |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | More than 160 people from six different continents registered to participate in the Discover Materials Open Week, in August 2020. A series of Materials Science events aiming to inspire 16-18 year olds to study Materials Science and Engineering at university culminated in a day of live talks and discussions, and the launch of a video promoting Materials Science and Engineering. The open week was organised by Discover Materials, a partnership between UK Universities Materials Science and Engineering Departments and the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/discover-materials-open-week-2020/ |
Description | Drop-in session/surgery for prospective users of NNL Royce/user access equipment |
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 | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Drop in virtual session with eth TPLs and owners of the user access equipment to facilitate further user access and ensure external users understand requirements when planning on equipment usage at NNL. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | ELECTRON MICROSCOPY DAY: PRESENTED BY THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BLUE SCIENTIFIC event2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Attend this live, in-person event to hear from leading academic and industrial users of our Electron Microscopes and learn how they use these instruments across a wide variety of applications to get the best results. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | EPSRC CDT in Future Innovation in Non-Destructive Evaluation - Radiography 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 | Training Course (February 2022) focusing on understanding the use of radiography in industry. It also covered CT reconstruction and included a tour of the NXCT facilities at Manchester. The event was supported by the National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT), Imperial College London, University of Bristol, University of Nottingham, University of Strathclyde and The University of Warwick. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.find-cdt.ac.uk/radiography/ |
Description | EPSRC ENGINEERING NET ZERO WEEK 2022 |
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 event will is an opportunity to: bring researchers, industry leaders and policy makers together to reflect on and raise awareness of the EPSRC investments made in this space continue the conversations that took place at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) highlight how our activities link to the sustainable development goals show our response to the outcomes of COP26 and how EPSRC-supported research and innovation can substantially contribute to net zero solutions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Enabling Next Generation Additive Manufacturing Seminar 2022 |
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 | This programme will focus on overcoming the challenges of spatially controlled co-deposition of dissimilar materials in 3D and we will establish new understanding and methods of both modelling and controlling co-deposition. 10/11/2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Faraday Tech Series: FIB-SEM Techniques for 3D-SEM and TEM-Prep |
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 seminar series was a joint Faraday Institution and Henry Royce Institute training course. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/faraday-tech-fib-sem-techniques-for-3d-sem-and-tem-prep-tickets-14471... |
Description | Faraday Tech Series: Large Volume 3D-SEM, Broad Ion Beam and fs-Laser Techniques |
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 seminar series was a joint Faraday Institution and Henry Royce Institute training course. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/faraday-tech-large-volume-3d-sem-broad-ion-beam-and-fs-laser-techniqu... |
Description | Faraday Tech Series: Reconstruction of 3D-SEM Data |
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 seminar series was a joint Faraday Institution and Henry Royce Institute training course. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/faraday-tech-reconstruction-of-3d-sem-data-tickets-144719093705# |
Description | Featured in a digital series in collaboration with The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) partnered with CWP to produce a digital series exploring expertise and advances throughout the materials cycle to address the climate crisis, achieve net zero targets and accelerate the circular economy. The Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub's Prof Shaver and Dr Chloe Loveless, Senior Experimental Office, demonstrated the research and development techniques used to support companies in the innovative design, reuse and recycling of plastics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://twitter.com/iom3/status/1583028751637499905 |
Description | Formula X: Understand Formulate Innovate |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Henry Royce Institute exhibited at the Formula X 2019 conference (24th - 27th June) organised by The Formulation Science and Technology Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Event held at The University of Manchester and Royce interacted with over 100 delegates from academic, international and UK businesses. Royce Head of Business Engagement also presented during the conference to develop new business opportunities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.formulation.org.uk/fx-home.html |
Description | Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Global Grand Challenges brought together innovation leaders from US, UK and China for a three day workshop. The Royce exhibited as part of a UoM-held Grand Challenges grant. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.raeng.org.uk/global/international-partnerships/international-policy/welcome |
Description | Graphene Hackathon |
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 | Graphene Hackathon is a student-led event with the aim of making MAKING easy, with the focus being on developing products and use case where graphene can have an impact. 10 teams, formed from predominantly from students but also from the general public, got together with the aim of rapid prototyping products in this 24-hour event. A brief description of the products developed is shown here: https://twitter.com/GrapheneHack/status/1196479821137793025 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.graphenehackathon.com/ |
Description | Graphene and Beyond: From Atoms to Applications Workshop (2021) |
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 | Workshop (May 2021) focusing on building a strong community in 2D crystal science and technology. The event was organised by the Centre for 2D and Layered Materials and the 2D Crystal Consortium at Penn State University, the Graphene Flagship, National Graphene Institute and Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.mri.psu.edu/mri/facilities-and-centers/2dlm/events/2021-graphene-and-beyond-workshop |
Description | Greater Manchester Green Summit 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Plenary Lecture for Green Summit of Greater Manchester Combined Authority on circular plastics. Over 500 attendees at lecture, plus follow-on sandpit event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Healthy Insights: What are the Priority Research Areas for the UK Biomaterials Community? - Materials World Article (2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Article published in Materials World Magazine (April 2021) focusing on the priority research areas for the UK biomaterials community. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Henry Royce Institute 2D Materials Research Showcase |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | A research showcase organised by the Henry Royce Institute to demonstrate our capability and expertise at The University of Manchester The event demonstrated the latest research into composites, membranes, electronics, device fabrication, modelling, and characterisation. The event took place on the 1 October 2019 and was attended by over 100 representations from national academic, industry and funders. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Henry Royce Institute Advanced Materials Characterisation Facilities Opening Celebration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | To celebrate the opening of the new Henry Royce Institute state-of-the-art facilities for materials characterisation at The University of Manchester and the installation of the HAXPES & P-NAME, the Royce hosted an event to showcase capability to academia, industry, and students. The event was held on the16th May and had over 200 attendees. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/henry-royce-institute-opens-13m-advanced-materials-characterisation-fac... |
Description | Henry Royce Institute Advanced Nuclear Materials Workshop |
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 Henry Royce Institute hosted an advanced materials workshop in Manchester on 27th February 2020 to generate community led proposals which can deliver real and tangible impact to UK Plc. The workshop was timely given recent government announcements for focused spending programmes on Small Modular Reactors (SMR), the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme and the Nuclear Innovation Programme Phase 2b. With over 100 attendees representing industry, academia, catapults, NDA and BEIS; each contributor brought a different perspective to the workshop. Throughout the morning Royce partners presented the open and accessible capability available to UK academia and industry including the National Nuclear Laboratory, UKAEA and the universities of Oxford, Manchester and Sheffield. Working groups were formed with representation from each sector to harness the unique expertise each can bring to strategic programmes thus ensuring broad input into each proposal's design, structure and deliverables. The working groups successfully delivered a number of outline programmes covering the broad space in advanced materials for nuclear applications. From Additive Manufacturing and how the development of standards would impact deployment into the nuclear sector; to new advanced materials in non-irradiated environments. The proposals generated at the workshop will be shared with all participants and wider the community to continue to develop the outlines generated into fully considered programmes of work. Royce will discuss the proposals created with BEIS, funding councils, NDA and ONR among others to capitalise further on the ideas put forward by the community and to support and enable a coherent nuclear strategy across nuclear materials. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Henry Royce Institute Hub Building (Manchester) - Opening Event |
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 | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The CEO of UKRI opened the new Henry Royce Institute Hub Building at The University of Manchester (September 2021). The event also saw an important keynote video message from The Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy. The building hosts £45 million of new state-of-the-art equipment alongside existing facilities in Manchester for biomedical materials, metals processing, digital fabrication, and sustainable materials research, including the new Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Alongside this is a variety of collaboration spaces for industry engagement, helping to accelerate the development and commercialisation of advanced materials. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/professor-dame-ottoline-leyser-opens-royce-hub-building/ |
Description | Henry Royce Institute Hub Building - Visit from the Advanced Materials Team at the Department for Business, Industry and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) |
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 | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Henry Royce Institute was delighted to welcome team members from the Department for Business, Industry and Industrial Strategy's (BEIS) Infrastructure and Materials Directorate to the Royce Hub Building (February 2022). Following presentations and discussions with Royce CEO and business engagement colleagues, the Advanced Materials Team visitors took a tour of the SMI Hub, Advanced Metals Processing facilities and the MS4DE autoclave testing facilities in the building. The meeting comes as BEIS seeks to look at ways advanced materials will underpin the UK's industrial base, with a Call for Evidence to gather insight and shape the UK's approach to advanced materials. Royce will co-ordinate consultation input from across its Research Area Steering Groups to ensure it captures the full breadth of opportunity the deployment of advanced materials can offer and what is required further move the dial on exciting developments underway. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/beis-advanced-materials-team-visit-royce-hub-building/ |
Description | Henry Royce Institute Hub Building - Visit from the Minister for Investment at the Department for International Trade (DIT) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) |
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 | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | On 14th July 2021, the Henry Royce Institute and the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) were delighted to welcome Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Kt, Minister for Investment jointly at the Department for International Trade (DIT) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Lord Grimstone and other key officials visited the Royce Hub Building as part of a wider trip to Greater Manchester which included a meeting with Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, as well as a roundtable discussion hosted at the GEIC around how Manchester's expertise and support for materials technologies at every level of research and development is making a significant contribution to delivering the UK's ambitions around net zero and clean growth. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/lord-grimstone-visit-puts-the-spotlight-on-materials-at-manchester/ |
Description | Henry Royce Institute Nano Infrared Spectroscopy Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | A workshop in collaboration with Bruker, provided a hands-on introduction to one of the latest characterisation capabilities for 2D and other advanced materials: Nano Infrared Spectroscopy. The Royce NanoIR3 systems coupled with Atomic Force Microscopy with Infrared Spectroscopy capability, enabling nanoscale resolutions together with topological, thermal and electrical analysis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Henry Royce Institute: Student Summit |
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 Henry Royce Institute Student Summit 2021 was a two-day virtual conference aimed at UK doctoral students undertaking work in materials-related subjects. It brought together the UK materials PhD and EngD community to share research, network, and learn more about transitioning from doctoral study to the next step on the career ladder. The theme of the Summit was Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Society. The Royce Student Summit was open to doctoral candidates studying a materials-related subject and affiliated with a UK institution, as well as their academic or industrial supervisors. It offered students opportunities to: - hear from established industry leaders and academics about the latest materials research; - gain insights into future career paths and the current jobs market for doctoral graduates; - meet and network with other members of the materials community; - present posters and talks; - participate in workshops addressing the five key drivers for advanced materials research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://roycestudentsummit.org/ |
Description | Henry Royce Materials Science Summer School |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The Henry Royce Materials Science Summer School is a 4-day residential summer school held in July each year. It offers places to around 25 year 10 students (aged 14-15), and aims to introduce materials science and engineering to them, as well as give them a taste of university life. Day-time activities include a mixture of lectures, interactive labs, and tours. For instance, tours of a Jaguar Land Rover manufacturing facility and the National Graphene Institute have been arranged for every year. In 2019, day-time activities also included a session on equality, diversity and inclusivity in science - this was entitled "The Winning Mindset" and was delivered by Polkadot Consultants Ltd. The Henry Royce Institute supports the summer school by providing funding as well as assistance with advertising and some delivery of content. The funding, which amounts to around 50% of the summer school costs, has enabled us to dramatically reduce the cost of attending the summer school, as well as provide more bursaries for disadvantaged students. For each summer school, we have provided some students (x7 in 2017, x10 in 2018, x12 in 2019) with a bursary owing to their disadvantaged background (this reduced the total cost to a £25 deposit). None of these students had family members who attended university. Feedback from students has been very positive. Over the three years we've run the programme, 90% of attendees have rated it overall as either "good" or "excellent". Over 80% of students said it has increased their interest in attending university, and 75% said it had increased their interest in studying materials science. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019 |
Description | High Entropy Materials workshop (Henry Royce Institute) |
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 Royce Institute Hub Building hosted the First UK Workshop on High-Entropy Materials on Friday 9th September 2022. The workshop aimed to (i) identify and establish a UK community on high-entropy materials, (ii) create an inclusive forum for sharing ideas, (iii) enable greater networking and formation of new partnerships, especially between industry and academia, and (iv) highlight areas of challenge and opportunity in the field. The day comprised a mixture of short 10-minute talks from academics and industry, complemented by 2-minute 'elevator pitches' from early-career researchers (PDRAs and PhDs). Those submitting abstracts for 10-minute talks were asked to focus on one of three areas: (i) challenges, (ii) opportunities, or (iii) new ideas and methods of interest to the whole community. In total, over 40 people attended in-person, with a further 40 participating via Zoom (the hybrid format was very successful). x14 different UK universities were represented, alongside participants from x5 companies and representatives from STFC and a Catapult. There were also a few international participants online (although the principal focus was the UK community). Presentations covered a range of topics, including: high-throughput manufacture and screening of alloys, opportunities associated with functional high-entropy nanomaterials, and the challenges presented by sustainability considerations. Discussions were both lively and fruitful (regularly having to be cut short owing to time), and highlighted a number of opportunities for concerted action, including: better standardisation of data reported for new high-entropy materials (to allow for better comparisons), and the need for improved thermodynamic data. Further focussed discussions are already being planned between academics and industry, in anticipation of applying for UKRI funding. Prizes for the best elevator pitches were sponsored by two industry partners - Qinetiq and Metalysis Ltd. The workshop was organised by Ed Pickering (Manchester, AMP RAL), Kathy Christofidou (Sheffield, AMP TPL) and Nick Jones (Cambridge), with assistance from the Royce Hub team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | High Polymer Research Group Conference 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Michael Shaver presented a talk on Monomer Design for Functional and Sustainable Degradable Polyesters at the High Polymer Research Group Conference where he highlighted the work of the RE3 Project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | High Voltage Lab Open Day 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The HV Lab Open Day is the first in a series of events focused on accelerating industry and academic collaboration to address the electrification challenge with a multidisciplinary approach by matching science and engineering with social science, economics, politics and arts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | House of Lords Reception |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Professor Michael Shaver was invited to attend a reception at House of Lords on sustainability and plastics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Hydrogen: Fundamentals and Materials Challenges CPD Short Course | Cranfield University 20-22 November 2023 |
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 course is delivered over 3 days and is mostly in the form of lectures and lab activities. Group work is also used to enable discussions among the participants. All delegates will receive a Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course. The course will be delivered by lecturers experienced in Hydrogen and related material challenges and will consist of lectures and lab experience to provide delegates with both theoretical and practical understanding of Hydrogen interaction with materials. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/hydrogen-fundamentals-and-materials-challenges/ |
Description | INTEGRATED INTELLIGENT BEARING SYSTEMS (I2BS) FOR UHPE, WITH PROFESSOR LING WANG Webinar May 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 | In this free seminar, Prof. Wang will present The concept of the smart bearing systems The strategy and results from the subscale bearing tests The intelligence for bearing fault detection developed in this project using both advanced signal processing and machine learning methods |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/integrated-intelligent-bearing-systems-i2bs-for-uhpe-with-professor-l... |
Description | IOP Particle Accelerators and Beams (PAGB) Annual Conference 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 IOP Particle Accelerators and Beams Group (PABG) invite you to the Particle Accelerators and Beams Annual Conference. This new two-day conference replaces the PABG one-day annual meeting, to become the UK's premier national event in the field of particle accelerators. Bringing together the entire community, this in-person event will comprise two days of vibrant physics discussion, knowledge sharing, and networking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/pabg-annual-conference-2022/ |
Description | Inkjet Printed Polymer Inclusions Can Result in Improved Mechanical Properties of Carbon Fibre Composites - Materials 4.0 hybrid seminar on inkjet printingg |
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 | Materials 4.0 hybrid research seminar on inkjet printing delivered by Patrick J Smith University of Sheffield |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/materials-40-seminar-inkjet-printed-polymer-for-carbon-fibre-composit... |
Description | Interview by BBC World Service (Arabic) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Laboratory visit and description of research into Bioprinting at the University of Manchester. Equipment funded by the award was discussed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Interview for national newspaper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | THE GUARDIAN: Fate of UK's nuclear plants in doubt over ageing infrastructure 3 Feb 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/03/fate-of-uks-nuclear-power-stations-in-doubt-over... |
Description | Interview with BBC Arabic - 3D Printing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Laboratory visit and description of research at the University of Manchester. Equipment funded by the award was discussed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZK0T2MdJk&index=4&list=PL63lwGZ_8vsnmWuxFBTL6NulPaYZXj0zv |
Description | Interview with BBC Arabic - Airport Scanning |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Laboratory visit and description of research at the University of Manchester. Equipment funded by the award was discussed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acgnos4fcl4&list=PL63lwGZ_8vsnmWuxFBTL6NulPaYZXj0zv&index=3 |
Description | Interview with BBC Arabic - ECG Tech |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Laboratory visit and description of research at the University of Manchester. Equipment funded by the award was discussed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyICksIUH7Q&list=PL63lwGZ_8vsnmWuxFBTL6NulPaYZXj0zv&index=9 |
Description | Invited Speaker at World Plastics Summit 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to speak at the World Plastics Summit 2022, which assembled international research leaders in plastics recycling and redesign |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Invited Speaker at the RSC Molecular Spectroscopy Group Online Seminar Series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver gave a talk at this online seminar which forms part of the RSC Molecular Spectroscopy Group monthly online seminar series. This event's theme was 'Sustainability'. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/47191/rsc-molecular-spectroscopy-group-online-seminar-series-janua... |
Description | Invited Speaker in multiple slots at the Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability 2022 conference took place online and offered thought leadership and educational talks across a plethora of industry sectors that use plastics and polymers in the mainstream of their business. Prof Shaver was a panel speaker on Day 1: "Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Conference Designing Sustainable Plastic Packaging" and Day 2: "UKCPN Spotlight - Innovations that have the potential for disruptive impact on plastics sustainability" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Invited presentation to Advanced Materials in Medicine showcase, Manchester, UK |
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 | Invited presentation to Advanced Materials in Medicine showcase, Manchester, UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Invited presentation to Henry Royce Institute annual conference, UK |
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 | Invited presentation to Henry Royce Institute annual conference, UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Invited presentation to International Centre for Translational Digital Health, UK / Canada / Melbourne. |
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 | Invited presentation to International Centre for Translational Digital Health, UK / Canada / Melbourne. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Invited presentation to University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science, UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation to University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science, UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Invited seminar at Gothenburg University (Sweden) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave an invited webinar on the NanoSIMS results acquired during this project to the Mass Spectrometry Imaging series organized by the Chemical Imaging Infrastructure and the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chemical-imaging-infrastructure_themassspectrometryimagingzoomseminar... |
Description | Invited speaker at Dutch Polymer Institute conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to speak at the Dutch Polymer Institute conference on the topic of: "Multi-component material design to enable circularity" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Invited speaker at University of Twente, Netherlands |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at University of Twente to discuss sustainable polymers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Invited speaker at the "Circular Economy & Promoting Research Links" Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to speak at the "Circular Economy & Promoting Research Links" Conference 2022 hosted by KTN & Stockholm University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Invited speaker at the Alliance Manchester Business School Social Responsibility Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to speak at this event which invited staff and students from across the University of Manchester to a series of lectures and panel discussions on social responsibility. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk/all-news/legacy-news/alliance-manchester-business-... |
Description | Invited speaker at the American Chemical Society, Chicago, USA. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver spoke at the American Chemical Society Conference during the Advances in Packaging Recycling and Sustainability session on the subject of Recycled plastic content determination through aggregation - induced emission |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Invited speaker at the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver spoke at the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences introducing a project to bring stakeholders of the plastics supply chain (including waste management) together to formulate ideas for a sustainable system with plastics. ("One Bin": Incentivizing Sustainable Plastic Systems.) Fellow speakers presented the culmination of their works in research and industry, while engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue to reach a deeper and broader understanding regarding potential solutions to environmental issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Invited speaker at the RWM & Let's Recycle Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver spoke at the RWM & Let's Recycle Conference, which featured a combined audience of over 7000 visitors, 200+ speakers across 9 conference theatres, 150+ CPD accredited sessions, 600+ exhibitors, live material processing, 50+ vehicle demonstrations and networking events including the Local Authority Lounge, Women in Sustainability, the Careers Corner, and the Innovation Awards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Invited speaker at the Rethinking Materials Summit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver spoke at the Rethinking Materials Summit which welcomed material producers, waste-disposal authorities, packaging producers, investors, start-ups and retailers from around the globe to exchange ideas, share experiences and forge new partnerships to turn the tide on plastic pollution. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://rethinkingmaterials.com/summit-highlights/ |
Description | Invited speaker at the University of Toronto - Sustainable Plastics vs Sustainable Systems Seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver spoke at this seminar event which explored the complex nature of our plastic environment, the interdependency of plastics on our goals for lowering our carbon footprint and increasing our expected lifespan, while also showcasing the University's own work on how polymer chemistry has the opportunity to shape a new sustainable future by developing interdisciplinary solutions that work for all actors. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Invited speaker at the World Polymer Congress, Winnipeg, Canada. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to speak at the World Polymer Congress, 17-21 July in Winnipeg, Canada. The conference represented various themes in fields such as Polymers for Biomedical Engineering, and Polymers from Renewable Resources and Biodegradable Polymers. Prof Shaver spoke on the subject of Polymers for Energy and Environmental Applications |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.macro2022.org/invited-speakers/ |
Description | Invited to give evidence at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Prof Shaver was invited to give evidence at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in its inquiry into plastic waste. The overall aim of this inquiry is to scrutinise the ways in which the UK government might reach its own target of eliminating all 'avoidable' plastic waste by 2042. The MPs will seek to understand how the UK might move closer in its use of plastic to a 'circular economy' where resources are used and then brought back into use, as opposed to the 'take, make and dispose' model which is currently consuming the earth's resources at an unsustainable rate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/52/environment-food-and-rural-affairs-committee/news/1602... |
Description | Ion beam workshop |
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 event was a 2 day workshop on best practice on the use of ion beams for irradiation damage in materials and characterisation techniques hosted by the PI in the Henry Royce Hub building (UK centre for advanced materials) at UoM. The workshop brought together speakers from industry NNL, UKAEA and academia, UoM, University of Sheffield and Huddersfield. There was 80 attendees to the workshop from a range of backgrounds, both industry and academic and career stages, PhD, Post-doctoral, early career and established. The event also sparked lots of discussion and feedback was every positive on the best practice that was developed at the workshop and resulted in the publication of several how to guides on the Royce website which will provide a ongoing resource for users going forwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/royce-training-ion-beam-irradiation-and-characterisation-best-practic... |
Description | Joint collaboration with NNUF and NSUF |
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 | Joint series of meeting between NNUF, NSUF (US based NNUF equivalent) on future collaborations and closer working on similar models for user access. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Key note speaker at the Greater Manchester Green Summit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Shaver was a key-note speaker at the Greater Manchester Green summit, hosted by Mayor Andy Burnham. Attendees included businesses, policymakers, local communities and industry from the city-region to discuss its five-year environment plan, rising the key environmental challenges it faces from implementing new policies and future innovations to industry adaptation and individual lifestyle changes. The event also focused on engaging young people around climate change with a youth-specific event strand. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Launch of Cambridge Battery Suite |
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 | Royce Battery Suite Opens at The University of Cambridge. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Launch of Racial Equality in Nuclear Initiative | NNL |
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 | The aim of the launch event is to consult the nuclear industry on REiN and the path it aspires to take, and to host a roundtable discussion as how as a sector we can best improve the inclusion and representation of ethnic communities in nuclear. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | M4QN Winter School - Royce Technical Skills Winter school and networking for M4QN |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | 4-day training event exploring career skills, training needs, road mapping and outreach activities within the field of materials for quantum technologies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SEMINAR 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The seminar will focus on the requirements and techniques used to characterise and qualify materials (and parts) for additive manufacturing - polymers, composites, and metals, followed by practical introductions from Netzsch and Malvern Panalytical to their key characterisation tools for additive manufacturing |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Materials Research Exchange 18th - 19th 2020 |
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 | In February, colleagues from across the Henry Royce Institute's national partnership travelled to London to showcase the Institute's progress to over 800 members of the materials community at the biannual Materials Research Exchange (MRE). Organised by the Knowledge Transfer Network, the Materials Research Exchange (MRE) aims to accelerate the commercialisation of materials innovation; fostering a culture of collaboration between researchers, entrepreneurs, industry and government. As headline sponsor for the MRE, the Royce Hub and our nine partners demonstrated groundbreaking work across the spectrum of advanced materials including automated testing at the University of Liverpool and sustainable manufacturing at the University of Sheffield. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/royce-launches-sustainable-society-vision-at-materials-research-exchang... |
Description | Member of Diabetes UK workshop scoping "Ageing Well with Diabetes" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Member of Diabetes UK workshop scoping "Ageing Well with Diabetes". Set out a working document to inform future funding decisions and motivate future work |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Michael Shaver presentation at the Greater Manchester Green Summit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Michael Shaver presented for the Henry Royce Institute on Sustainable Plastics at the Greater Manchester Green Summit on 25th March 2019. Prof Shaver presented to over 100 delegates from Greater Manchester businesses, universities and policymakers. The event was organised by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham. This was the first presentation the Royce gave on materials and sustainability and led to the Institute developing a new vision of Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Society. The event itself led to the publication of the region's long-term environmental vision - to be carbon neutral by 2038. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/what-we-do/environment/green-summit/ |
Description | Moiré-Twistronics Workshop |
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 | Online workshop focusing on recent developments related to the theory and experimental work on twisted bilayer materials. The workshop was jointly organised by the National Graphene Institute, the Thomas Young Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials, and the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/moire-twistronics-workshop/ |
Description | Multiscale Digital Twin-Driven Smart Manufacturing System Lecture 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | "Presentation from grant principal investigator Prof. Xichun Luo on current research within in the grant. " |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Multiscale Digital Twin-Driven Smart Manufacturing System Lecture 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 | Invited talk at Henry Royce Institute 'multiscale digital twin-driven smart manufacturing system' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | NNL Nuclearised Optical Microscope Open Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Researchers from NNL presented the capabilities and application opportunities for the new Royce Optical Microscope. Data gathered using the equipment was available to demonstrate its performance capabilities. NNL also offered special access to attendees who wish to test their own samples in the future. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://www.royce.ac.uk/events/nnl-open-day |
Description | NPL Performance and Properties of Advanced Coatings Seminar |
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 seminar discusses this potential and discusses the properties and performance of many different types of advanced coatings |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | NXCT - Introduction to CT theory |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | NXCT workshop covering the basics of X-ray CT - Introduction to technical method |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) Website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography in partnership with the Henry Royce Institute built and launched a new website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
URL | https://nxct.ac.uk/ |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT): Advanced Segmentation in Avizo |
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 | Training course focusing on how segmentation techniques work and how to use these within the Avizo visualisation software package. The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) is a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Southampton, Warwick, UCL and Diamond Light Source. The NXCT Hub in Manchester is hosted by the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT): Advanced Segmentation in Avizo |
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 | Training course (December 2020) focusing on how segmentation techniques work and how to use these within the Avizo visualisation software package. The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) is a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Southampton, Warwick, UCL and Diamond Light Source. The NXCT Hub in Manchester is hosted by the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT): Advanced Segmentation using Avizo |
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 | Training course (October 2021) focusing on how segmentation techniques work and how to use these within the Avizo visualisation software package. The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) is a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Southampton, Warwick, UCL and Diamond Light Source. The NXCT Hub in Manchester is hosted by the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT): Introduction to Image Visualisation using Avizo |
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 | Training course (August 2021) focusing on how to process X-ray CT data using Avizo visualisation software and real X-ray CT data to highlight the true problems faced when analysing large volumes of data. The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) is a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Southampton, Warwick, UCL and Diamond Light Source. The NXCT Hub in Manchester is hosted by the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/nxct-introduction-to-image-visualisation/ |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT): Introduction to Image Visualisation using Avizo |
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 | Training course focusing on how to process X-ray CT data using Avizo visualisation software and real X-ray CT data to highlight the true problems faced when analysing large volumes of data. The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) is a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Southampton, Warwick, UCL and Diamond Light Source. The NXCT Hub in Manchester is hosted by the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT): Introduction to X-ray CT |
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 | Training course (August 2021) focusing on the basic principles of X-ray CT for new users. The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) is a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Southampton, Warwick, UCL and Diamond Light Source. The NXCT Hub in Manchester is hosted by the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/nxct-introduction-to-x-ray-ct/ |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT): Introduction to X-ray CT |
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 | Training course focusing on the basic principles of X-ray CT for new users. The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) is a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Southampton, Warwick, UCL and Diamond Light Source. The NXCT Hub in Manchester is hosted by the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT): Introduction to X-ray CT Visualisation using Avizo |
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 | Training course focusing on the fundamental principles of using Avizo and Image J Fiji visualisation software to analyse X-ray CT data. The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) is a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Southampton, Warwick, UCL and Diamond Light Source. The NXCT Hub in Manchester is hosted by the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT): Particle and Pore Analysis in X-ray CT Data |
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 | Training course (December 2020) focusing on advanced analysis methods for characterising pores and particles within a matrix material. The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) is a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Southampton, Warwick, UCL and Diamond Light Source. The NXCT Hub in Manchester is hosted by the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT): Particle and Pore Analysis in X-ray CT Data |
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 | Training course (October 2021) focusing on advanced analysis methods for characterising pores and particles within a matrix material. The National Research Facility for lab-based X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT) is a partnership between the Universities of Manchester, Southampton, Warwick, UCL and Diamond Light Source. The NXCT Hub in Manchester is hosted by the Henry Royce Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | North West Business Leadership Team 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Michael Shaver represented RE3 North West Business Leadership team meeting, engaging with local stakeholders |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Novel Applications of Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques in Materials Failure Analysis |
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 | The webinar used case studies to show how scanning electron and focused ion beams can be used to analyze the early stages of initiation and propagation of cracks, both to better understand the safe lifetime of existing materials, and to look toward ways of extending the life of engineering materials and components. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://connect.asminternational.org/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=2808... |
Description | NuMAT conference presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presented results at the nuclear materials research conference (NuMAT) in Ghent, Belgium 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Nuclear Futures piece on user access |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Article describnig user access mechanisms for nuclear materials characterisation in the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Nuclear for Net Zero |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presented a talk at a Pint of Science 2023 event called fuelling the future, on the use of nuclear power for net-zero to around 50 members of the public within a pub in manchester, this was followed by questions/debate on the issues and discussion about public attitude towards nuclear power and was generally very positively perceived. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/fuelling-our-future |
Description | OECD/NEA Expert Group on Innovative Structural Materials - High entropy alloys for advanced nuclear applications Workshop |
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 NEA Expert Group on Innovative Structural Materials (EGISM) organised a workshop together with the Spanish Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT) on the development, potential uses, opportunities and limitations of high entropy alloys for nuclear applications. Held virtually on 19-21 October 2021, the event attracted 120 participants from 11 countries who exchanged the latest developments and innovations in the field of high entropy materials and complex concentrated alloys. The workshop opened with an overview on research and development initiatives in this field with perspectives from the People's Republic of China, the European Union and the United States. The discussions then addressed numerical design and computational approaches to develop high entropy alloys, as well as fabrication and manufacturing and microstructures and mechanical properties of high entropy alloys. Irradiation resistance of high entropy alloys and their compatibility with corrosive environments were also explored. Participants agreed on the importance of collaboration at the international level to support the acceleration of high entropy materials development for use in the nuclear industry. A broad consensus was also expressed on the need to accumulate both theoretical and experimental data on the behaviour of these materials in conditions that simulate nuclear reactor conditions. Considering the broad variety of systems included in this class of materials, efforts will be also needed to collect and systematise data in a consistent way as they are produced - especially considering the fact that research in this field heavily involves the use of machine learning techniques for both material design and material modelling purposes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_61782/high-entropy-alloys-for-advanced-nuclear-applications |
Description | Opening of Royce Thin Film Laboratory | Imperial College London |
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 | Opening of Royce Thin Film Laboratory in Imperial College, London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Operando Approaches for Advanced Materials Development Simposium 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This one-day symposium will focus 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 aims 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 | 2022 |
Description | Other Scientific Training - Dream 3D workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | NXCT DIL - Dream 3D workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Other Scientific Training - FIJI workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | NXCT DIL - FIJI workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Outreach at Sale high school Manchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | 200 year 6 six students attended an assembly on careers in STEM where the PI presented with another engineer from Industry on engineering challenges to address Net-Zero. This consisted of a presentation of videos, activities and other engagement actives to get the students to understand where our energy comes from and the consequences of such sources as well as discuss what it is to be an engineer/scientist. The event was organised via the STEM ambassador scheme and the teacher who organised the event reported a high amount of engagement after the day with students discussing more about the range of careers available in STEM subjects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Packaging Innovations Conference 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Michael Shaver gave a lecture at the 2019 Packaging Innovations Conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Particle analysis in AVIZO & producing video - NXCT (Software training on Avizo for particle analysis) |
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 | Software training on Avizo for visualisation of X-ray CT data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Pint of Science Jan 2020 |
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 | The RE3 Project hosted a Pint of Science style event titled The Challenges of Ending Plastic Waste in Manchester city centre. Speakers Professor Michael Shaver, Prof Mark Miodownik, and Dr Claudia Henninger led discussions on the current state of plastic use in the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Presentation at NuFuel conference 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented research of grant to audience at the 2023 nuclear fuel conference hosted in south of France. The outcomes of the presentation lead to two engagements with CEA in France and invitation for a site visit and collaboration on a EU working group for characterisation techniques for the OECD and the 2nd with KIT in Sweden on collaboration on uranium nitride samples. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Presentation of Royce "model" at international nuclear users working group. |
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 | Three presentations around extent of Royce activity in the UK covering - facilities and equipment covered under user access at NNL (Central Lab WIndscale) and UKAEA, and a joint presentation on Royce "model" to an international audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Product Design with more Sustainable Uses of Plastics Webinar |
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 | Webinar jointly organised by the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub, Innovate UK Edge North, and GC Business Growth Hub. Target audience: SMEs in Greater Manchester interested in creating more sustainable solutions for plastics use within their business. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://smihub.ac.uk/product-design-webinar/ |
Description | Quantum materials: the challenge of the second quantum revolution Seminar 2022 PSI |
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 | PSI seminar on quantum computer technology with guest speaker Professor David Jamieson. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Readily3D Demonstration Day - 3D bioprinting demonstration event (Technical Skills training) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Technology demonstration of a new and innovative 3D bioprinter. Run with aim of understanding equipment capabilities and potential user interest in the platform. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Research workshop - Data-centric materials science and engineering |
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 | Scoping workshop held in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute bringing together data scientists with materials scientists and engineers to elucidate existing and potential future opportunities in the area of data-centric materials science and engineering.The event was held in Manchester on 14th May 2019 and was attended by over 100 academics from across the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/data-centric-materials-science-and-engineering |
Description | Royal Society of Chemistry Surface Coatings Interest Group Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | RSC Surface Coatings Group have organised a program of talks and tour to explore the facilities and research at the Royce Institute. The meeting will take place at the Royce Hub at Manchester University but will include contributions from other Royce facilities around the country. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Royce 2D Showcase |
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 Royce 2D showcase presented a selection of Royce research and equipment capability. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/2d-materials-research-showcase/ |
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 Oxford Opening - Materials Centre for Energy Research |
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 | A new state-of-the-art facility, the Centre for Energy Materials Research (CEMR), was officially launched 09 May 2023 by the University of Oxford's Department of Materials. This will provide world-class capabilities to support the development of the next-generation materials urgently required to address the climate crisis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Royce Student Summit: Electronic and Photonic Materials | Bragg Centre, University of Leeds |
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 Student Summits present the opportunity for the UK Materials PhD and EngD community to come together to share ideas, network and learn more about transitioning from doctoral study to the next steps on the career ladder |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Royce Technical Skills - Cleanroom Practical Skills (Best practice in cleanroom fabrication skills) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | 5-day training course to develop practical skills and gain experience in cleanroom use for semiconductor fabrication |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Royce Technical Skills Bruker UK SPM/AFM Users Meeting 2024 |
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 | 2-day user meeting for UK SPM/AFM community |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Royce Training at Sheffield: Soft Skills for Researchers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This event aims to provide students with some crucial career skills that may not be encountered as part of the structured learning on a research-based PhD. The talks and activities will be around "soft-skills", such as networking and communicating science to non-specialist audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Royce Training: Ion Beam Irradiation and Characterisation - Best Practice - 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 | This course explores procedures and techniques for the planning, preparation, and running of ion irradiation and characterisation experiments. The content will go beyond standard use cases familiar to most researchers and will introduce examples and processes that can help unlock the full potential of these approaches. Ultimately, participants will gain a deeper knowledge of best practice in this research area and provide useful guides on how to fully use these techniques available through Royce partners and the wider UK nuclear research community. This course is suitable for researchers working in both academia and industry that want to develop their knowledge on ion beam irradiation experiments and materials characterisation. Researchers seeking to refine their existing protocols and understand current best practice would also be welcome to attend and contribute to the discourse. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/royce-training-ion-beam-irradiation-and-characterisation-best-practic... |
Description | Royce Training: Thin Film Deposition | University of Leeds |
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 course will introduce thin-film deposition and analytical techniques for characterising thin films. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Royce Undergraduate Internship Scheme |
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 | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Royce supports researchers across the UK to host an undergraduate intern within their organisation over the summer |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Royce exhibit and presentations at Advanced Materials Show 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 | For 'Advanced Materials Day', Dr Laura Cohen RAEng Visiting Professor at UoM and Royce took part in a session on 'Managing the Impacts of the Pandemic on the Advanced Materials Sector'. Royce Governing Board member Dr Annalisa Gigante took part in the 'Leaders in Conversation - Outlining Customer and Regulatory Demands for Advanced Material Innovation' session alongside BAE Systems, Cerion Nanomaterials, 3M and BP. Our engagement team were represented throughout the event and exhibition. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://www.advancedmaterialsshow.com. |
Description | Royce exhibited at Faraday Institution Conference 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 | Royce exhibited at the Faraday Institution Conference which took take place virtually on 25th and 26th November, and was open to UK-based academia, industry and policy-makers in the UK battery space. We promoted the Royce's electrochemical systems capability through a new short video and were well represented by a team from Royce Partners of Oxford, Sheffield and Cambridge: www.faraday2020.org.uk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.faraday2020.org.uk/ |
Description | SMI Hub Workshop: It's not Easy Being Green - Sustainability, Plastics and Your Business 2022 |
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 Sustainable Materials Innovation (SMI) Hub's sustainability workshop: It's Not Easy Being Green, provides free impartial advice and expertise around plastics use and circularity, supporting your business to use plastics more sustainably and efficiently. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | SMI Hub Workshop: It's not Easy Being Green - Sustainability, Plastics and Your Business 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 | Sustainability workshop for SMEs in the Greater Manchester area |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
Description | SMI Hub: Good Cup, Bad Cup Seminar 2022 |
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 Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub is a local innovation programme which helps businesses across Greater Manchester create sustainable solutions for plastics use and waste management. We offer free support to SMEs based in Greater Manchester, with less than 250 employees and less than €50m turnover. We're looking to bring together a group of local independent cafes to be part of a project to improve sustainability across your operations and supply chain. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | SMI Hub: Planet, Plastics, Pastries: Sustainability Coffee Morning 2022 |
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 | "Meet business owners and professionals interested in sustainability, and chat to industry experts |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | SURFEX: SURFACE PAINT & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY 2022 |
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 | Surfex brings an essential focus to surface, paint & coatings technologies and offers attendees to discover new ideas, find answers to technical challenges and source information for immediate use in their working environment |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/surfex-surface-paint-coatings-technology/ |
Description | Seminar at Warwick Manufacturing Group, uploaded to Youtube. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Seminar talk on high-entropy alloys for nuclear applications, which was uploaded to Youtube on 21st November 2022. It has gained 2,241 views since then (as of 20th February 2023). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHk1g6aPlBc&t=11s&ab_channel=bhadeshia123 |
Description | Showcasing Physical Sciences Impact Event 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Royce participated in the EPSRC physical sciences impact event showcasing how graphene achieves all three pillars of impact (people, knowledge and Societal, Cultural and Economic Impact). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://epsrc.ukri.org/funding/calls/showcasing-physical-sciences-impact-event-2019/ |
Description | Sip of Science - Science talks (Royce Outreach) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | First Pint of Science event hosted at the Royce Hub Building to provide a space for researchers and members of the public alike to come together, be curious, and chat about research in a relaxed environment outside of mysterious laboratories or daunting dark lecture theatres. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/pint-of-science-manchester-launch-event-sip-of-science |
Description | Software Carpentry (Shell, Git, Python) | Online workshop - Royce data curation team |
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 Royce Data Curation team will host a 5-day workshop aimed at materials science researchers new to these languages, and those looking for a refresher; designed to give you confidence in using shell, Git and GitHub, and Python. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/software-carpentry-shell-git-python/ |
Description | Stand at Blue Dot Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Samples being taken from the lab to blue dot. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | Stand at Community Open Day |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Stand at the community festival including leapfrog printer, doodle pen Activity and hands on samples. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | Stand at Henry Royce Advanced Materials Summer School |
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 | Schools |
Results and Impact | 3d printing Workshop. Excellent Feedback |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Stand at Science Festival (Blue Dot festival, July 2019) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Activity was a stand at science festival showing how materials fabrication methods could be used to make biological constructs. Introduced concept of an organ on a chip. Some hands on demonstrations for participants. Audience general public with focus on High school Age children. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Surface Ventures WORKSHOP: MEASURING THE BEHAVIOUR OF BRAKE MATERIALS MORE EFFICIENTLY (WITH TRIBOLAB DEMO) 2022 |
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 | In this webinar, we will describe the technique and demonstrate how well it correlates with tests performed on the full-scale dynamometer following the SAE J2522 standard (known as AK Master). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub (SMI Hub) Website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub in partnership with the Henry Royce Institute built and launched a new website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
URL | https://smihub.ac.uk/ |
Description | Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub (SMI Hub): Opening Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Opening event (November 2021) for the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub (SMI Hub). The SMI Hub was created by the Henry Royce Institute with funding from the European Regional Development Fund to support the growing need to combat plastics pollution increasingly associated with major world cities. Located on Floor 6 of the Royce Hub Building in Manchester, the SMI Hub aligns with the Institute's mission to catalyse industrial collaboration and accelerate the transition of materials innovations into real world applications. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://smihub.ac.uk/news/sustainable-materials-innovation-hub-opens-in-new-henry-royce-institute-hu... |
Description | TERMIS World Congress 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presented two talks: Novel CT Imaging Techniques for Soft Tissues, and Electrical Stimulation to Improve Stem Cell Osteogenesis. Hosted and chaired the Symposium on Quantitative X-ray Micro-CT Imaging for Tissue Engineering. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.termis.org/wc2018/ |
Description | Talk at UK Semiconductors 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presented the Henry Royce Institute at UK Semiconductors 2019 conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://uksemiconductors.com/ |
Description | Technical Skills - Advanced EBSD for alloys (Training workshop n EBSD analysis) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Workshop covering advanced techniques in EBSD for researchers working with alloy characterisation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Technical Skills - Analysing your AFM data (Hands on data surgery for AFM data) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Data analysis training course delivered by the AFM Manchester team. It covered several pieces of Royce kit and information on accessing facilities across the rest of the institute. It aimed to help researchers better understand and begin the interpretation of their AFM data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Technical Skills - Analysing your XPS data 3 - Hands on data surgery for XPS data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Data analysis training course delivered by the XPS Manchester team. It covered several pieces of Royce kit and information on accessing facilities across the rest of the institute. It aimed to help researchers better understand and begin the interpretation of their XPS data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Technical Skills - Introduction to EDS analysis for alloys (Training workshop on EDS analysis) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Workshop covering introductory techniques in EDS for researchers working with alloy characterisation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/royce-training-introduction-to-eds-analysis-for-alloys-tickets-77298717... |
Description | Technical Skills - Introduction to Quenching Dilatometry for Alloys (Training workshop on dilatometry) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentations and data analysis practicals for dilatometry experiments related to alloy investigation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/royce-training-analysing-your-xps-data-february-2024-tickets-76386075... |
Description | Technical Skills - XPS Data Analysis webinar2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach |