Advanced materials
Highest concentration of materials experts at any UK university.
Invested in state-of-the-art facilities in the last 10 years.
Providing partners with a pathway to scale up.
Supporting progress and prosperity through relationships with local, national and global partners.
Businesses supported by the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre to accelerate lab-to-market development.
Businesses supported by the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub to create solutions for plastics use and end of life.
Innovation partnership with Bruntwood SciTech, Sister (formally ID ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ), boosting research and development, and creating more than 10,000 jobs.
Multi-million pound partnerships, like the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Biomedical Research Centre and Christabel Pankhurst Institute, translating research into products and services.
From the Industrial Revolution to Graphene City, we develop materials systems to support sustainability, AI, quantum and digital, and health.
Driving inward investment, supporting levelling up and consolidating the UK's position as a technology superpower.
In a world-first clinical trial, a brain implant made of graphene is demonstrating graphene's potential in enabling high-precision surgeries.
ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ's leading experts ranked in the top 25 globally for metallurgical engineering.
Four ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ materials researchers ranked in global top 1% of most influential academics.
Developing game-changing materials to enable transformative technological advancements
Our researchers partner with industry to unlock potential. Whether this is discovering game-changing materials like graphene, real-world applications with commercial impact, accelerating technology readiness, or boosting productivity and reducing carbon footprint in the foundation industries, we’re embracing opportunities, mitigating challenges and ensuring the UK’s reputation as a technology superpower.
We’re creating transformative interdisciplinary solutions to tackle some of the biggest global challenges. These include clean energy and net zero; climate action and clean water; good health and wellbeing; industry; innovation and infrastructure; and sustainable materials and responsible production.
With our partners we’re developing new materials, while making existing ones lighter, stronger, more sustainable and cheaper to produce, all to underpin sustainable and circular solutions to global challenges.