Sir Henry Royce Institute -Sheffield Equipment
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Materials Science and Engineering
Abstract
Metallurgy and metals processing is going through period of rapid change driven by the need to improve their performance in-service but also by the socio-economic drivers of reducing process waste and emissions. To address these challenges the overall objective of the Advanced Metals Processing theme is to establish a world leading facility for metals discovery, processing, characterisation, upscaling and manufacturing, with a view to creating a link through to the digitally integrated, sustainable and resource efficient factory of the future. The focus will be on metals process innovation in the "missing gap" between small-scale laboratory metals processing and the industrial scale. It will address the key themes of materials discovery, resource efficient materials manufacture, light weighting, flexible manufacturing, prototyping and production scale-up.
Planned Impact
The manufacturing and processing of materials to form components is one of the largest industrial sectors. In metal processing it alone accounts for 46% of all manufactured value, with an economic worth to the EEA of £1.3 trillion. Metals production consumes about 5% of global energy use and is responsible for an annual emission of over 2Gton of CO2, so efficiency in manufacture can produce significant reductions in environmental impact. There are many market sectors in the UK where metals production is paramount. For example, there are 1.5 million cars produced in the UK each year. The automotive sector is an exemplar of metals in competition, with the principle driver being a reduction in weight. New high strength steels compete with the latest aluminium alloys and wrought magnesium alloys will increasingly become competitive. In the automotive sector, 2020 fleet average emissions targets of 95 g/km will be superseded by ~ 60 g/km by 2050. The same issues apply in the aerospace sector. For a commercial aircraft, every Kg of weight reduction saves £300 in fuel costs. The consequence is that exponential growth in the use of Mg, Al and Ti is predicted in the drive towards light weight design. Airbus forecasts a doubling of the world aircraft fleet by 2030, but this must be realised with targets of 75% reduction in fuel burn by 2050. A key component of this will be the need to introduce new light weight materials. Thus, the move towards low carbon technologies will rely heavily on the invention of new materials that are stronger, lighter, requiring less material to the used for the application, and have lower manufacturing carbon footprints. They must also feed into more efficient component design, work in multimaterial systems, and manufacture, with extended component lifetime and be recyclable at the end of life, implying a minimised whole life-cycle carbon footprint.
Publications
Lu Z
(2020)
Superior energy density through tailored dopant strategies in multilayer ceramic capacitors
in Energy & Environmental Science
Lu Z
(2021)
Mechanism of enhanced energy storage density in AgNbO3-based lead-free antiferroelectrics
in Nano Energy
Luke E
(2023)
Rapid sol-gel synthesis of honeycomb-layered Na 3 Ni 2 BiO 6 and orthorhombic Na 3 Ca 2 BiO 6
in Dalton Transactions
Magnus C
(2019)
The Lubricating Properties of Spark Plasma Sintered (SPS) Ti 3 SiC 2 MAX Phase Compound and Composite
in Tribology Transactions
Magnus C
(2019)
Influence of sintering environment on the spark plasma sintering of Maxthal 312 (nominally-Ti3SiC2) and the role of powder particle size on densification
in Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Magnus C
(2020)
Ramification of thermal expansion mismatch and phase transformation in TiC-particulate/SiC-matrix ceramic composite
in Ceramics International
Magnus C
(2020)
Wear induced ripplocation during dry sliding wear of TiC-based composite
in Wear
Magnus C
(2020)
Synthesis and microstructural evolution in ternary metalloceramic Ti3SiC2 consolidated via the Maxthal 312 powder route
in Ceramics International
Mann C
(2020)
The dissolution of simulant vitrified intermediate level nuclear waste in young cement water
in MRS Advances
Markanday F
(2022)
Design of a Ni-based superalloy for laser repair applications using probabilistic neural network identification
in Data-Centric Engineering
Markanday J
(2023)
The Microstructural Evolution of CM247LC Manufactured Through Laser Powder Bed Fusion
in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
McClelland I
(2022)
The Role of the Reducible Dopant in Solid Electrolyte-Lithium Metal Interfaces
in Chemistry of Materials
Miller D
(2021)
IoT and Machine learning for in-situ process control using Laser Based Additive Manufacturing (LBAM) case study
in Procedia CIRP
Mycroft W
(2020)
A data-driven approach for predicting printability in metal additive manufacturing processes
in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Namus R
(2020)
The influence of protein concentration, temperature and cathodic polarization on the surface status of CoCrMo biomedical grade alloys
in Applied Surface Science
Namus R
(2020)
Influence of protein adsorption on tribocorrosion behaviour of CoCrMo biomedical-grade alloys
in Tribology International
Neto M
(2020)
Effect of Potential and Microstructure on the Tribocorrosion Behaviour of Beta and Near Beta Ti Alloys I
in Biotribology
Ning Y
(2019)
Spatially Controlled Occlusion of Polymer-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles within ZnO.
in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Nutter J
(2020)
Detailed In Situ Hot Stage Transmission Electron Microscope Observations of the Localized Pinning of a Mobile Ferrite-Austenite Interface in a Fe-C-Mn Alloy by a Single Oxidic Particle
in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
Pashneh-Tala S
(2020)
Hybrid manufacturing strategies for tissue engineering scaffolds using methacrylate functionalised poly(glycerol sebacate).
in Journal of biomaterials applications
Pham MS
(2019)
Damage-tolerant architected materials inspired by crystal microstructure.
in Nature
Pyne ALB
(2021)
Base-pair resolution analysis of the effect of supercoiling on DNA flexibility and major groove recognition by triplex-forming oligonucleotides.
in Nature communications
Quintana-Nedelcos A
(2022)
On the structural, microstructural and magnetic properties evolution of Ni0.5FeCoAlCrx alloys
in Materials Letters
Rakshe B
(2022)
Effect of Niobium Supersaturation in Austenite on the Static Recrystallization Behavior of Carbon Structural Steels
in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
Redondo-Bermúdez MDC
(2021)
'Green barriers' for air pollutant capture: Leaf micromorphology as a mechanism to explain plants capacity to capture particulate matter.
in Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Salmasi A
(2021)
Mobilities of Ti and Fe in disordered TiFe-BCC assessed from new experimental data
in Calphad
Sharp J
(2019)
Characterisation of a High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtered C/Mo/W wear resistant coating by transmission electron microscopy
in Surface and Coatings Technology
Skerratt-Love K
(2023)
The effects of phosphorus pentoxide additions on the thermal, rheological, and structural properties of sodium borosilicate glass
in Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Smith C
(2018)
3D printing a jet engine: An undergraduate project to exploit additive manufacturing now and in the future
in Materials Today Communications
Smith CJ
(2017)
Tailoring the thermal conductivity of the powder bed in Electron Beam Melting (EBM) Additive Manufacturing.
in Scientific reports
Smith H
(2022)
Cr2+ solid solution in UO2 evidenced by advanced spectroscopy.
in Communications chemistry
Snell R
(2019)
Methods for Rapid Pore Classification in Metal Additive Manufacturing
in JOM
Taylor C
(2023)
Aminosilane Functionalized Aligned Fiber PCL Scaffolds for Peripheral Nerve Repair
in Macromolecular Bioscience
Todd I
(2017)
Metallurgy: Printing steels.
in Nature materials
Todd Iain
(2017)
No more tears for metal 3D printing
in NATURE
Velasco-Castro M
(2019)
The effect of oxygen pickup during selective laser melting on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4V lattices.
in Heliyon
Walkley B
(2020)
Incorporation of strontium and calcium in geopolymer gels.
in Journal of hazardous materials
Walling S
(2023)
Stability of SrCO3 within composite Portland-slag cement blends
in Cement and Concrete Composites
| Description | We have determined the optimum processing conditions for additive manufacturing of aerospace components that allows the mechanical properties to be maximised. We have optimised a steel microstructure to be resistant to hydrogen embrittlement that is used in automotive applications to light weight. We have developed a new resource efficient magnesium alloy that has minimum crystallographic texture that can therefore be formed into the required shape for automotive applications. We have invented the first beta titanium alloy that shows both high yield strength and high work hardening through a novel alloy and process design. We have invented a nano grain sized steel that is easy to process and opens up the possibility of a commercially viable nano steel. |
| Exploitation Route | The equipment purchased is a national facility that will boost the research of a wide range of researchers across the UK. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Transport |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/materials/centresandfacilities/royce |
| Description | The Royce equipment is fundamental to various development work, like the Additive Repair programme within Rolls-Royce, additive manufacturing programme with GKN, and many more. Here is a selection of some of our case studies - Conform™ offers considerable cost savings in titanium part production due to its continuous nature and preference towards lower-cost feedstocks (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/royce-institute/case-studies/conform) - The Empyrean will allow us to much more rapidly optimise the performance of cathode and anode materials for sodium-ion aplications (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/royce-institute/case-studies/nexgenna) - FAST STEP 3 aims to produce titanium alloy components at 20% of the current cost, and with minimal wastage (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/royce-institute/case-studies/fast-step-3) - New alloys will enable increases of the specific fuel efficiency of new jet engines by 1%, and also help the UK aerospace industry stay competitive (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/royce-institute/case-studies/aerospace-alloy-design) - World-leading X-ray diffractometer, using hard radiation and highly efficient detector, brings total scattering methods, otherwise only available from STFC, to the lab enabling better optimisation of new electrode formulations performance. - A new resource efficient steel has been designed with world beating combination of strength and ductility was produced using Royce facilities. This steel will allow further light weighting of automotive structures. - The JEOL F200 has been used to explain failures in the trunion joints in hip joint replacements, which is leading to new design concepts for hip joint replacements. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Energy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | "cmobining AFM and open-source analysis to automates identification and characterisation of molecules within AFM images" (Alice Pyne) |
| Amount | £56,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | (OPTICON) - Optical Infrared Coordination Network for Astronomy |
| Amount | € 10,011,619 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 730890 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | AIRLIFT |
| Amount | £9,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Aerospace Technology Institute |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 11/2022 |
| Description | Developing Design for Additive Manufacturing |
| Amount | £7,212,148 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Aerospace Technology Institute |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | Developing Design for Additive Manufacturing (DAM) |
| Amount | £7,212,148 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 113170 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | Diode area melting - a novel re-configurable multi-laser approach for efficient additive manufacturing with enhanced thermal process control |
| Amount | £629,880 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W024764/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Direct cold sintering of functional ceramics onto polymer circuit boards: a new low energy manufacturing route in electronics |
| Amount | £202,341 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X016463/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| 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 Capital Award for Core Equipment 2020 - University of Sheffield, Faculty of Engineering (Dr Nik Reeves-McLaren) |
| Amount | £93,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | EPSRC IAA - A new rapid automated pipeline for healthcare R&D S15570 |
| Amount | £35,597 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Description | EPSRC and SFI Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems: Metallurgical Challenges for the Digital Manufacturing Environment |
| Amount | £5,434,026 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S022635/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 03/2028 |
| 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 | FAST STEP 3 - Swarf Titanium to Engine Parts in 3 Steps |
| Amount | £1,327,001 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 104040 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2018 |
| End | 08/2021 |
| Description | ICP027 - Establishing a Foundation for Artificial Intelligence in Additive Manufacturing (Prof Iain Todd) |
| Amount | £88,480 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | ICP032 - Development of Hot Isostatic Pressed Hydrogen Resistant A286 Alloy towards Net Zero Heat Exchanger Applications (Dr K Christofidou) |
| Amount | £69,997 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | INTEGRADDE - Intelligent data-driven pipeline for the manufacturing of certified metal parts through Direct Energy Deposition processes |
| Amount | € 16,999,328 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 820776 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | MCAP013 - Materiomics for High Entropy Alloy Discovery (MatHead) (Prof Nicola Morley) |
| Amount | £62,052 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | MCAP016 - Magnetic Materials that Think and Feel (Dr Thomas Hayward) |
| Amount | £52,022 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | MIRIAM: Machine Intelligence for Radically Improved Additive Manufacturing |
| Amount | £666,383 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 103461 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Made Smarter Innovation - Materials Made Smarter Research Centre |
| Amount | £4,049,203 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V061798/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| 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 | 04/2022 |
| End | 03/2027 |
| Description | Materials 4.0 "Digitisation of Powder Manufacturing - DoPoM" (Ben Thomas) |
| Amount | £32,018 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Description | Practice and theory in the design of martensitic steels |
| Amount | £446,771 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V001809/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| 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 | 09/2021 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | Royce Materials 4.0 Natural Language Programming for Magnetic Materials - Pilot scheme (Prof N Morley) |
| Amount | £24,815 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Royce Phase 2 |
| Amount | £95,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X527257/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 03/2027 |
| Description | SEE MORE MAKE MORE: Secondary Electron Energy Measurement Optimisation for Reliable Manufacturing of Key Materials |
| Amount | £1,171,727 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V012126/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2021 |
| End | 01/2025 |
| Description | SUSTAIN Manufacturing Hub |
| Amount | £10,319,154 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/S018107/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 03/2026 |
| Description | Sir Henry Royce Institute - recurrent grant |
| Amount | £23,057,010 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R00661X/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Targeting Twist: Single-molecule insights into supercoiled DNA-topoisomerase interactions for drug discovery |
| Amount | £137,508 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/R024871/2 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 11/2020 |
| 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 | Transforming the Foundation Industries: a Network+ Towards Value by Innovation |
| Amount | £2,002,050 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V026402/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Undergradudate Summer Internship (Prof Nicola Morley) |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Henry Royce Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2022 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | University of Sheffield and Metron Advanced Equipment Limited |
| Amount | £110,100 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 510917 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 10/2019 |
| Description | Unravelling the invisible complexities of the genome |
| Amount | £1,508,571 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/W00738X/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 07/2026 |
| Title | Variation of texture anisotropy and hardness with build parameters and through height in direct energy deposited 316L steel |
| Description | Raw data associated with a paper submission.
"Variation of texture anisotropy and hardness with build parameters and through height in direct energy deposited 316L steel" submitted to Additive Manufacturing. Contained are all the raw images used in figures, as well as csv's of any data pltoted in graphs. Raw images captured during printing of various processing parameters EBSD scans (.ctf) of all disucssed samples Wall definitions (EBSD compared to paper) Wall 1 - Wall A1 300 W 2750 mm/s Wall 2 - Wall D 500 W 2250 mm/s Wall 3 - Wall B 300 W 2250 mm/s Wall 4 - Wall C 500 W 2750 mm/s Wall 5 - Wall A2 300 W 2750 mm/s |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3957923 |
| Title | Variation of texture anisotropy and hardness with build parameters and wall height in directed-energy-deposited 316L steel |
| Description | Raw data associated with a paper submission.
" Variation of texture anisotropy and hardness with build parameters and wall height in directed-energy-deposited 316L steel" submitted to Additive Manufacturing. Contained are all the raw images used in figures, as well as csv's of any data pltoted in graphs. Raw images captured during printing of various processing parameters EBSD scans (.ctf) of all disucssed samples Wall definitions (EBSD compared to paper) Wall 1 - Wall A1 300 W 2750 mm/s Wall 2 - Wall D 500 W 2250 mm/s Wall 3 - Wall B 300 W 2250 mm/s Wall 4 - Wall C 500 W 2750 mm/s Wall 5 - Wall A2 300 W 2750 mm/s |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3957922 |
| Description | Rolls-Royce |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We are developing new alloy variants that will be useable in gas turbine engines. We have an extensive programme in additive repair of alloys used in gas turbine engines. We have an extensive programme of additive layer manufacturing titanium and Ni base superalloy components. We are exploring new Co free stellite alloys for nuclear power based activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The supply of considerable intellectual property to the project. A considerable cash contribution to the research. Supply of materials and powders. |
| Impact | A significant number of publications have resulted. Full scale components have been manufactured and tested. Significant advances have been made in the understanding of process optimisation in additive manufacturing. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Tata Steel |
| Organisation | Tata Steel Europe |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of new high strength steels for light weighting in the automotive sector Development of thermomechanical process routes for steels New models of thermomechanical processing of steels |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of expert knowledge Provision of trial steels in cast and wrought form Access to research facilities |
| Impact | Introduction of new steels for automotive sector- a steel has been patented. New on-line process models |
| Description | "Base-pair resolution analysis of the effect of supercoiling on DNA structure and flexibility" - Dr Alice Pyne (Keynote) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This meeting aims to cover the understanding of topology across several areas of condensed matter physics and molecular biology. Audience was able to broaden their understanding and share their ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://eutopia3.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt |
| Description | "Tackling twist, single molecule insights into supercoiled DNA" - Dr Alice Pyne (Keynote) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two days virtual conference "Frontiers in Bioimaging 2020" where the audience engages with a broad range of imaging approaches, and have an opportunity to further their understanding and to network with other researchers working in the same/similar areas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-calendar/2020-events/frontiers-in-bioimaging-2020-home.html |
| Description | Advanced Characterisation of Energy Materials Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Technical talks and online demos on advanced characterisation of Energy Materials. The demos allowed the attendees to understand the capabilities of the Royce equipments |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/advanced-characterisation-of-energy-materials-21st-april-2021-tickets... |
| Description | Advanced Characterisation of Energy Storage Materials (in collaboration with Malvern Panalytical) |
| 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 | Over seventy delegates attended a day-long workshop on advanced characterisation of energy storage materials, hosted by the University of Sheffield, on 6 June 2019. Featuring thirteen of the UK's leading experts from academia and industry, the talks explored the application of advanced X-ray techniques and beyond in the characterisation of the next generation of lithium- and sodium-ion battery materials. Speakers from Malvern Panalytical discussed the latest characterisation techniques, including operando XRD analysis of lithium-ion battery cathodes, laser diffraction, and rheometry. They also presented their Morphologi-4 instrument and its applications for battery materials. Academics from Oxford, Birmingham, Lancaster, and the Diamond Light Source joined researchers from Sheffield to complete the day's programme. Delegates attended from a broad variety of industrial sectors including automotive, energy, and chemicals, as well as from fourteen different academic institutions. Dr Eddie Cussen, Reader at the University of Sheffield said "I thought it was a really excellent day. The talks were highly relevant, and nicely pitched to be accessible to the general audience. Many of my group attended and it gave them an excellent picture of the diverse range of techniques and expertise that is being brought to bear on energy materials to build the next generation of devices." Dr Robert Taylor, from Malvern Panalytical, said the workshop was "a very well attended seminar with a broad range of engaging topics covering battery materials, their characterisation, application and production. The location and facilities were excellent and the day was well organised too. This is one of the most important scientific topics of our time with profound environmental consequences for us all." Guest speaker Dr Nuria Tapia-Ruiz said it was an "excellent workshop filled with insightful talks and discussions on advanced battery characterisation methods". Organiser Dr Nik Reeves-McLaren, a Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, added that "it was an honour to host the community, and show off the Royce Discovery Centre's new Malvern Panalytical Empyrean X-ray diffractometer and give a taste of its exciting operando electrochemistry capabilities. This really puts Sheffield on the map and we are open for business - I look forward to working with partners from academia and industry to help solve their energy storage materials issues!" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/royce-institute/news/recharged-attendees-buzzing-after-advanced-characte... |
| Description | Advanced Materials Characterisation, from Macro to Nanoscale (In collaboration with Bruker) |
| 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 event, titled 'Advanced Materials Characterisation, from Macro to Nanoscale', offered an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the most recent innovations in surface metrology, inspection and characterisation. The event was well received by the materials community with over 80 representatives from organisations such as British Steel, Boeing, Doncaster Aerospace and TWI in attendance. Bruker Sales Manager, Boumedienne Boudjelida, was very pleased with the event: "The Henry Royce Institute in Sheffield did a great job helping us organise this very successful event. Delegates did learn a lot not only on the capability of the latest technologies for Advanced Materials Characterization but also on the role and access to the Henry Royce Institute." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/royce-institute/news/bruker-nano-surfaces-co-hosts-very-successful-works... |
| Description | Advanced Materials Show 2019 |
| 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 | Showcases Henry Royce Institute at The University of Sheffield capabilities and talk to researchers and industrialists about accessing our facilities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Advanced Metal Processing Theme Meeting |
| 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 | Around 30 academics from various institutions met to review the existing research capabilities offered by the Henry Royce Institute, to explore how these may support the work of the Advanced Metal Processing community to continue to influence and support industry. The ideas that were generated provide possibly inspiration for future project work. The day also highlighted the need for the community to find ways of influencing industry to make use of the capabilities of this community and Royce Institute. If the community wants to take a more pro-active approach with industry then there will need to be more specialist input about persuading industrial leaders to consider making changes to existing practices and to embrace the opportunities that could be explored under the broad headings of Green Metals, Metals 4.0 and other options. The broad scope of the Industrial Strategy Grand Challenges offer potential for this community to become involved in interdisciplinary collaborative projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dr A Pyne - Tackling topology using TopoStats |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Scientific talk highlighting research conducted |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://jila.colorado.edu/smb/ |
| Description | Dr Alice Pyne "Seeing is believing - direct observation of changes in the helical structure of supercoiled DNA" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | scientific presentation aimed to share research outcome |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Dr Alice Pyne "TopoStats - a new pipeline for automating AFM analysis" (Henry Royce Data Management workshop) |
| 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 | Data management workshop for networking and dissiminate research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/events/workshop-data-management-for-materials-researchers/ |
| Description | Dr Alice Pyne "Visualizing supercoiled DNA structure and interactions with base-pair resolution" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Scientific presentation aiming to share research outcomes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dr K Christofidou - CWP/IOM3/Royce "Materials for Net Zero" |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview discussing the role of our research in achiving a circular economy and net zero |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://materialchange.iom3.org/series_partners/henry-royce-institute/ |
| Description | Dr K Christofidou - First UK based High Entropy Materials Workshop |
| 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 | Workshop and discussion on high entropy materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dr K Christofidou - Interview with BBC Radio Sheffield Drivetime for Royce Discovery Centre Opening |
| 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 | Short interview about Royce Discovery Building opening and implications of our research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2022 |
| Description | Dr K Christofidou - KTN MRE2022 Twitter Video |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Short interview with KTN team while at Materials Research Exchange event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/KTN_Materials/status/1577321073531621376?s=20&t=H5aYo6G_2ycI4hyrndCWPQ |
| Description | Dr K Christofidou - Lessons on structural alloy development strategies from experimentation with HEAs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Scientific talk highlighting research conducted |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Dr Kathy Christofidou "Lessons on structure alloy development strategies from experimentation with High Entropy Alloys" - SMEA Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This was a scientific talk on high entropy alloys where the Royce melting facilities available to melt these alloys were mentioned with aim to bring more people in using the facilities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/events/6891033638557802496/ |
| Description | Dr Simon Graham and Dr Oliver Levano Blanch presented at the 10th anniversary of FAST/SPS expert group in May 2022 in Germany. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Oliver Levano Blanch shared results on the influence of current induced thermal profiles in titanium during FAST/SPS processing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://dgm.de/en/article?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi... |
| Description | EPSRC Big Idea - Materials 4.0 |
| 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 | Community engagement and feedback for a proposed submission to EPSRC Big Ideas during the summer of 2020. Two workshops held, each with between 20 and 40 unique participants. Presentations on some challenges from industry, academia and catapults and discussion opportunity to prioritise the challenges and identify missing barriers. Feedback used in drafting Big Idea and subsection of participants reviewed document prior to submission in Nov 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | European EBSD User Meeting "Growth evolution of recrystallised grains in a Mg-2%Zn-0.2%Ce alloy during annealing" - Dr Dikai Guan (Oral Presentation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Oxford Instruments EBSD User Meeting is a good opportunity to hear from both our experts, on application and technology developments, and to understand how to get the best out of our EBSD/EDX system. It is also a great chance to meet and discuss our applications with our wider EBSD community. During this two-day seminar I heard from the experts in geoscience and material sciences as well as product specialists to provide a well-rounded and informative experience. I also had in-depth discussions on the finer details of the EBSD technique such as best practices for sample preparation and data processing as well as insights into developing detector technology and more complex elements of EBSD including Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction and 3D EBSD. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Focus on Battery Research: Studying Battery Cathode Materials using in-operando X-Ray Diffraction (Dr Nik Reeves-McLaren) |
| 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 | This webinar was aimed for people working in the field of battery research or manufacturing or anyone interested in X-ray Diffraction of materials. The attendees were educated on the X-ray diffraction and scattering application of lithium-ion batteries, including: Electrochemical reactions and atomic phase changes, with discussion on the special considerations needed for this application. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mcf.gatech.edu/2020/04/17/webinar-focus-on-battery-research-studying-battery-cathode-materia... |
| Description | Hunan University Yuelu Forum of International Young Scholars "Recrystallisation, Texture Evolution & SEM/EBSD/EDX applicatons" - Dr Dikai Guan (Oral presentation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This evant was an opportunity to share the new Henry Royce Institute facilities and to discuss with progress in SEM/EBSD with interested parties |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Industrial Training Programme promotion video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Royce at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with the Aerospace Engineering department and Rolls Royce created a video promoting the Industrial Training Programme. The ITP uses many of the Advanced Metal Processing equipment part of the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz9gwoXq5TA |
| Description | International Conference On Advanced Materials & Process Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering "Thermoelectric Oxides (La-doped A-site-deficient SrTiO3 ceramics)" - Dr Zhilun Li (Keynote) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The impact of rapid advancements in science & technology brings vital changes in countries socio-economic activities, so the modern manufacturing frames work resides permanently under the maximum synergy in materials-energy interactions. Further, progress in synthesis & experimental methods enables the design of multidimensional, multi-scale & multi-functional technological systems. In view of above the 3rd International Conference on Advance Materials & Process Engineering (AMPE-2019) has been organized by the Department of Chemical and Polymer & petrochemical engineering NED University of engineering & technology on Dec 14-15 2019. AMPE-2019 aims to provide a meeting ground for the experts engaged in the science and technology of energy and materials. AMPE-2019 is an international forum for the handshaking among the national and international experts and industry players providing a favourable time to exchange new ideas, developments and progress in other countries, exploring possibility of collaborative research, and to establish research relations and to find global partners for future research activities. The conference encompasses the emerging scenario in the energy sector with particular emphasis on the materials related issues. A special focus is on the emerging techniques of modelling, simulation and experimental visualization relevant to the aforesaid domains. I was honour to be the co-chair of Technical Session-I 'Advanced Materials' and gave a keynote presentation in AMPE-2019. This conference provides me a very good chance to practice my chair and presentation skills, and an opportunity to establish some collaborations with other Pakistani Researchers. It broadened my horizons and enlarged my understanding of advanced materials & process engineering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | LinkedIn - The Henry Royce Institute, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The purpose is to promote our activities, our research, our events, our people, our facilities to people interested in advanced material discovery, processing and manufacturing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/company/royce-sheffield/ |
| Description | MRE 2020 - Henry Royce Institute Symposium "Advanced Metals Processing - Doing more with less" - Prof Martin Jackson (Oral presentation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the Henry Royce Institute Advanced Metal Processing research and capabilities which sparked questions and discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.materialsresearchexchange.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/MRE-Programme-19_2-20_2.pdf |
| Description | MRS Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management "The role of alkali/alkaline earth ions on glass corrosion rates as a function of pH" - Dr Colleen Mann (Oral Presentation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The symposium is endorsed by the Materials Research Society (MRS) and was hosted at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The symposium provided an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of scientific bases of technologies used in radioactive waste management, including; synthesis, characterisation processing, storage and disposal of low-intermediate and high-level nuclear waste from commercial power generation, use of radionuclides in medicine, industry, agriculture and nuclear fuel reprocessing. The conference organisers gave early career researchers the opportunity to give an invited talk each day, the most interesting of these was Dr Stephanie Thornber (NNL) who presented about progressing the nuclear capabilities of the HIP at NNL in the UK. Additionally, on the last day of the conference Irena Geuse who represented both Nagra and IGD-TP presented on "Deep geological repositories- Where we are and What is still needed" much of the material she covered I will utilise in my lecture on geological disposal in November when teaching the Green CTD. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Manchester workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A workshop to tell the community of the equipment already received in the Henry Royce Institute and to obtain feedback from the community on the strategy going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Material Research Exchange 2020 |
| 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 | 2 days event to promote the Henry Royce Institute research and facilities at the University of Sheffield. This event generated loads of discussion and interests in the nre capabilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | NARIT - Thailand. Outreach event (Rob Snell) |
| 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 | Rob Snell - Outreach with NARIT in Thailand to showcase latest project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | PhD programme funded by Element |
| 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 | Further study |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/royce-to-support-element-in-driving-an-innovation-agenda/ |
| Description | Royce Translational Centre & IOM3 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over thirty academics and engineers from industry toured the Royce Translational Centre in an event that tied in with the opening of the '50 Years of Steel Alloy Design' conference in Sheffield. The Henry Royce Institute co-sponsored the IOM3's '50 Years of Steel Alloy Design' conference that took place in Sheffield from 7-8 November 2019. As part of the conference, delegates were invited to tour world class engineering research facilities, including the Royce Translational Centre. Over thirty engineers signed up to join the tour and enjoyed learning about the alloy design and creation micro-factory facilities available at the Royce Translational Centre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/royce-institute/news/thirty-engineers-tour-royce-translational-centre-pa... |
| Description | Spoke at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | He gave a talk on "Towards understanding and eliminating defects in additively manufactured CubeSat mirrors". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://spie.org/astronomical-telescopes-instrumentation/presentation/Towards-understanding-and-elim... |
| Description | TUoS/Henry Royce Institute - Electron Microscopy Workshop - Dr Dikai Guan & Dr John Nutter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Around 50 participants across The University of Sheffield attended this workshop, most of them were PhD students. Two Henry Royce Institute staff gave talks and examples demonstrating the capabilities and applications of new SEM/EBSD and TEM electron microscopes. After presentation, we had fruitful discussion with researchers to discuss the posibility of how to use these electron microscopes for their research work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | The Eleventh International Conference on High-Performance Ceramics (CICC-11) "High-figure-of-merit thermoelectric La-doped - A-site-deficient SrTiO3 ceramics" - Zhilun Lu (Oral Presentation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The International Conference on High-Performance Ceramics (CICC) series is sponsored by the Chinese Ceramic Society and aims at providing an international forum for presentation, discussion and review of the latest advances in science and technology of high-performance ceramics. During the past years, the CICC series has developed to be the largest international conference on ceramics held in China and also an important international ceramic conference in Asia. Since 1998 when the first conference, CICC-1, was held in Beijing, CICC series attracted more and more scholars and graduate students to join together and exchange information in all areas related to the recent development in the field of high-performance ceramics. This year, there were about 1500 attendees working at universities, institutions and companies to attend this conference. More than 750 talks were given. The conference started with some very interesting Plenary Lectures, such as, cold sintering of electroceramic materials, devices and novel nanocomposites, designing the processing of advanced ceramic composites to yield the required properties, the roles of electrons in nominally ionic ceramics and so on. The most interesting presentation for me is given by one of the most famous experts, Prof. Jeff Snyder, from Northwestern University. His citations are more than 40000. In this talk, he proposed that the influence of micro/nanostructure on thermal conductivity is a topic of great scientific interest and of particular technological importance to thermoelectrics. The current understanding is that structural defects primarily decrease thermal conductivity through phonon scattering where the phonon speed is fixed. All boundaries, whether interfaces between two materials or even grain boundaries are thought to scatter heat carrying phonons perfectly randomly. In this frequency-independent model, phonons simply cannot travel coherently across a boundary and that all boundaries are the same which is clearly unphysical for low angle grain boundaries. He discussed his analysis of phonon scattering that controls the thermal conductivity of many common thermoelectric materials. He found that the grain boundary dislocation strain model could substitute for the frequency- independent model. More importantly, the two models can be distinguished at low temperature in fine-grained materials such that experimental evidence supports the grain boundary dislocation strain model. In this way, he suggested that grain boundaries themselves are best conceptualized as a collection of dislocations. In fact, a major contribution to the reduction in thermal conductivity, and the resulting improvement in thermoelectric figure of merit (zT>2), in high efficiency Na-doped PbTe can be attributed to this internal-strain induced lattice softening effect. His talk really presents new avenues to control lattice thermal conductivity, beyond phonon scattering, with microstructural defects and internal-strain. This conference provides me a good chance to learn from the famous experts from various ceramic based research fields and an opportunity to establish some potential collaborations with other Chinese Researchers. It broadened my horizons and enlarged my understanding of ceramic based materials. Interest for Royce@Sheffield team: Prof. Qiuyun Fu and Prof. Ruzong Zuo are interest about the slot die. They are famous experts in Electronic Ceramics. They would like to know more details about the slot die and how to make uniform thin ceramic layers. They are both happy to establish collaborations with us in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Hatfield Memorial Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Hatfield Memorial Lecture is an annual event hosted by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Royce Partner the University of Sheffield. It featured presentations from noted academics and industrialists on topics as diverse as space exploration and biomaterials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/materials/department/community/events/hatfield-memorial-lecture |
| Description | Thermo Fisher Trace Elemental Analysis User Seminar "How can we prove that nuclear waste is durable?" - Dr Colleen Mann (Oral presentation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Trace elemental analysis user group meeting where various people presented on their research topic. This event is setup to allow the community to share their success, but also issue, with opportunities to discuss ongoing work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Twitter - The Henry Royce Institute, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | our twitter account allows us to promote our research, our events, our new capabilities, our news. We currently have 663 followers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/RoyceSheffield |
| Description | University of Science and Technology Beijing "Facile fabrication of bulk ultrafine-grained high-performance steels via instantaneous nanoprecipitation" - Dr Junheng Gao (Oral presentation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk given while in Beijing to discuss experimental work collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Vacuum Expo 2019 "Functional Magnetic thin Films" - Prof Nicola Morley (Keynote) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Morley presented on the research undertaken at The University of Sheffield and the Henry Royce Institute Facilities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Virtual Data Analysis in AFM Meeting |
| 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 | This event aims to bring together the AFM community to tackle the lack of consensus across the field regarding data analysis and availability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-calendar/2020-events/data-analysis-in-atomic-force-microscopy.html |
| Description | Virtual RMS AFM & SPM Meeting 2020 |
| 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 | Attendees to this conference were able to explore the latest developments in atomic force microscopies and scanning probe microscopies, as well as engaging with each other in this specific area of expertise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-calendar/2020-events/rms-afm-spm-meeting-2020.html |
| Description | Website - Henry Royce Institute, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Our website allow us to showcase our research, our facilities, our capabilities, our people, our events, our news. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/royce-institute |
| Description | World PM 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Simon Graham delivered a keynote at WorldPM 2022 Conference titled "Solid-State Processing of Surplus Aluminum Alloy Powders through a Combination of Field Assisted Sintering Technology and Hot Rolling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.worldpm2022.com/keynote-papers/ |