Department Of Materials Science & Engineering MATERIALS DISCOVERY AND PROTOTYPING Materials Discovery and Prototyping We aim to combine computational material design, high-throughput materials discovery, rapid scale-up and material property screening to deliver a step change in the way that novel materials are developed for specific applications. Our capabilities will support the key technical challenge that is the innovation of processes to efficiently and effectively fabricate and test material libraries, while simultaneously capturing sufficient information to pass on to manufacturers to enable rapid deployment to occur. Vacuum Induction Melting Furnace (Consarc Engineering) Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM) furnaces are used to meet the alloys requirements of specialised industries. Alloys produced by VIM are used in very demanding situations and include nickel-based superalloys for high-temperature applications, stainless steels for nuclear applications and cobalt or titanium-based alloys for medical applications. We have two furnaces: a 25kg single chamber VIM with 3kg induction skull melting capability for small-scale development/upscaling, and a smaller 10kg single chamber VIM for research. Cold Crucible Arc Melting Furnace and Casting Module – Arc 200 (Arcast) The Arc 200 vacuum arc melting furnace is a tool for research and prototype production. It offers the ability to melt, cast and rapidly solidify metal alloys of nominal 200g mass using a clean, ceramic free cold crucible process. It offers the ability to melt and alloy metals at over 3000°C, such as titanium alloys, shape memory alloys and amorphous alloys. Thin Film Combinatorial Deposition - QPrep 500 (Mantis) This system offers a unique capability in the combinatorial deposition of thin films and coatings for the rapid discovery of new material compositions. The system’s ability to simultaneously deposit from a large number of sources, along with its capability to create variable compositions on a single wafer, makes it ideal for materials discovery in such areas as high entropy metal alloys (alloys with five or more elements in similar proportions). The system will also allow the exploration of new functional materials systems, for example thin-film magnetic multi-layers and functional ceramics. ROYCE@SHEFFIELD ADVANCED METALS PROCESSING HENRY ROYCE INSTITUTE Royce@Sheffield Department of Materials Science & Engineering The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street Sheffield, S1 3JD royce@sheffield.ac.uk 0114 222 5961 sheffield.ac.uk/royce-institute

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DepartmentOfMaterials Science &Engineering

MATERIALSDISCOVERY ANDPROTOTYPINGMaterials Discovery and Prototyping

We aim to combine computational material design, high-throughput materials discovery, rapid scale-up and material property screening to deliver a step change in the way that novel materials are developed for specific applications. Our capabilities will support the key technical challenge that is the innovation of processes to efficiently and effectively fabricate and test material libraries, while simultaneously capturing sufficient information to pass on to manufacturers to enable rapid deployment to occur.

Vacuum Induction Melting Furnace (Consarc Engineering)Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM) furnaces are used to meet the alloys requirements of specialised industries. Alloys produced by VIM are used in very demanding situations and include nickel-based superalloys for high-temperature applications, stainless steels for nuclear applications and cobalt or titanium-based alloys for medical applications. We have two furnaces: a 25kg single chamber VIM with 3kg induction skull melting capability for small-scale development/upscaling, and a smaller 10kg single chamber VIM for research.

Cold Crucible Arc Melting Furnace and Casting Module – Arc 200 (Arcast)The Arc 200 vacuum arc melting furnace is a tool for research and prototype production. It offers the ability to melt, cast and rapidly solidify metal alloys of nominal 200g mass using a clean, ceramic free cold crucible process. It offers the ability to melt and alloy metals at over 3000°C, such as titanium alloys, shape memory alloys and amorphous alloys.

Thin Film Combinatorial Deposition - QPrep 500 (Mantis)This system offers a unique capability in the combinatorial deposition of thin films and coatings for the rapid discovery of new material compositions. The system’s ability to simultaneously deposit from a large number of sources, along with its capability to create variable compositions on a single wafer, makes it ideal for materials discovery in such areas as high entropy metal alloys (alloys with five or more elements in similar proportions). The system will also allow the exploration of new functional materials systems, for example thin-film magnetic multi-layers and functional ceramics.

ROYCE@SHEFFIELDADVANCED METALSPROCESSING

H E N R YR O Y C EI N S T I T U T E

Royce@SheffieldDepartment of Materials Science & Engineering

The University of Sheffield, Mappin StreetSheffield, S1 3JD

[email protected] 222 5961

sheffield.ac.uk/royce-institute