Advanced materials and manufacturing
The single biggest issue for ensuring future supply chain resource sustainability is the availability of critical materials.
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During the SCRS/ AREC workshop, participants from industry and academia expressed a strong interest in developing Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (AMM). It is also an area in which the University of Sheffield has extensive expertise.
Listed below are centres at the University of Sheffield that undertake AMM research:
- Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing
- Centre for Advanced Additive Manufacturing
- Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
- Centre for Cement and Concrete
- Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES)
- Centre for Glass Research
- Characterisation Small Research Facility (SRF)
- Composite Systems Innovation Centre
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems
- Functional Materials Group
- Immobilisation Science Laboratory
- Leonardo Centre for Tribology and Surface Science
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre
- Mercury Centre
- Polymer Centre
- Research Centre for Surface Engineering
- Sheffield Centre for Advanced Magnetic Materials and Devices
- Sheffield NanoLAB
- Sorby Centre for Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis
- X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory (XRD)