A £235m investment from UK government, plus £80m by the universities, to create an Institute for the rapid maturation of advanced materials technology.

• The Hub will be located at the University of Manchester

• Research Spokes at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford, along with NNL and CCFE

- each Championing a Core Area.

An aim of the Institute is to design from the ‘atom to the component’; fabricate, test and analyse advanced materials, and their application, feeding into the wide range of manufacturing sectors.

Microscale Mesoscale Component scale Atomic scale

The Institute’s Vision

‘An international flagship for the accelerated discovery and development of new materials systems for economic and societal benefit’

Industry UK Universi/ es

Catapults Manufacturing

Hubs Large Facili/ es

Research organisa/ons

Henry PaRrotynceers Ins/ t u te

The Royce: research themes

4 overarching areas: Structural | Energy | Device | Soft & Health.

- each with a number of Core Capability areas

@Manchester Hub: Modelling, Testing, Imaging & Characterisation, Management

Focus will be on research at TRL 1-5

Energy materials

Structural materials

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Royce Institute: governance

As a National Institute the Royce is subject to independent scrutiny and governance.

Chair of the Governing Board: Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Professor Dame Julia King DBE FREng

Chief Executive Officer: Dr. Andrew Hosty FREng

Chief Scientist: Regius Professor Philip Withers FREng FRS

Enable engagement with

industry

Ability to react to opportuni/ es

A mee/ n g place for the UK Advanced Materials

community

Agile & flexible future-proofed

design

Mel/ n g pot for new ideas

A public window into materials

research

A showcase for exploi/ n g

advanced and sustainable device

& structural materials

“Be an interna )onal flagship for the discovery and development of new

materials systems…”

Hub in Manchester: vision

Hub building: location

Hub building: design

Hub Research Themes

• 2D & nanomaterials

• Biomaterials & Biomedical devices

• Materials for Demanding Environments

• Nuclear materials

• Materials processing / foundry

• Chemical materials

Plus Modelling, Tes/ n g, Imaging & Characterisa/on Industry and public space

Mee/ n g / conference facili/ es

The building will open Q2 2019.

WORK IN PROGRESS – NOT FINAL DESIGN

Level 6: 1,330m2 office & labs for industrial use / collaboration

Level 2: 1,330m2 office & labs for industrial use / collaboration

Hub building: design

WORK IN PROGRESS – NOT FINAL DESIGN

Level 6: 1,330m2 office & labs for industrial use / collaboration

Level 2: 1,330m2 office & labs for industrial use / collaboration

Hub building: design

Laboratories on floors 6, 7 and basement are equipped to handle nuclear materials

WORK IN PROGRESS – NOT FINAL DESIGN

Royce Science: Core Area Champions

www.royce.ac.uk/core-research

o Scientific leads will work with the R&D community to define the challenges & opportunities.

o Through analysis, discussions and workshops they will help identify:

oUK university strengths and what individual partners/non-partners can contribute oany gaps in university expertise /capability o linkages with existing or developing strategies o the needs of industry

o the need for trained people – current UK provision & gaps

o currently available equipment and infrastructure; target new investment

Core Area InsJtuJon Academic lead

Biomedical materials & Devices Manchester Prof. Sarah Cartmell

Nuclear materials Manchester Prof. Francis Livens

Materials for Demanding Environments Manchester Prof. Michael Preuss

2D & Nanomaterials Manchester Prof. Vladimir Falko

Chemical materials discovery Liverpool Prof. Andrew Cooper FRS

Atoms to Devices Leeds Prof. Edmund Linfield

Atoms to Devices Imperial College London Prof. Neil Alford MBE

Adv. Metals Processing Sheffield Prof. Mark Rainforth

Energy Storage Oxford Prof. Peter Bruce FRS

Materials for Energy Efficient ICT Cambridge Prof. Sir Richard Friend FRS

Biomedical Materials and Devices www.royce.ac.uk/biomedical-systems

Champion: Profs. Paulo Bartolo & Sarah Cartmell

This theme intends to accelerate the discovery, manufacture and translation of biomaterials through a platform of state-of-the-art equipment, enhancing the UK’s international lead in the fields of biomaterials, biomedical systems and devices.

The two identified grand challenges of advanced biomaterials research are:

(i) restoring biological function with minimal invasiveness e.g., regenerative medicine, novel prosthetics and implants

(ii) developing new therapies - reduce patient risk, improve efficacy, & lower cost e.g., nanomedicine, theranostics and personalised medicine

IndicaJve Targets Short-term Medium-term Long-term

New synthe/c materials; Materials by design using AM; Ra/onally-paQerned material substrates.

Chemical diversity of new biomaterials; Novel AM methods

Mul/-hybrid materials; Bridging scales in space & /me combining biomaterials and AM

Materials for Nuclear Energy

www.royce.ac.uk/nuclear-materials

Champion: Prof. Melissa Denecke, Manchester.

Vision: advanced materials for nuclear fuel cycle, and in-core structural materials for fission and fusion energy, targeting optimum performance for safety and economy.

Self-healing coatings Novel nuclear structural materials Link mechanical properties and

irradiation effects in engineered alloys

Fuel production and performance Energy & materials co-production

Waste conditioning & disposal

✓ TRL 1-5 with trajectory to higher TRLs at NFCE, NNL and industry

✓ Joined up with NIRAB recommendations, plus added value of revenue from waste

✓ Exploit synergies between institutions for unique/integrated capability

✓ Nurturing young talent for tomorrow’s UK nuclear leaders

4 suites of infrastructure Synthesis & Inven Jon ProducJ on

& Manufacturing IrradiaJ on &

RadioacJ ve Handling TesJng &

CharacterisaJon

www.royce.ac.uk/ms4de

Champion: Prof. Michael Preuss, Manchester.

• The vision is to design, make, characterise & evaluate new material systems.

• Incl. protective/ smart coatings, hybrid material systems & ceramic matrix composites -

to widen the parameter space in which structural materials can be used.

• Underpinning capability for testing in corrosive, HPHT, abrasive & other demanding

environments (incl. in situ characterisation).

'Research OpportuniJ e s’ blue = industry input, beige = non-industry, green = other sources

Material Systems for Demanding Environments

Material Systems for Demanding Environments

www.royce.ac.uk/ms4de

Champion: Prof. Michael Preuss, Manchester.

Make

1. A National Coatings Facility

- coating deposition technology, incl. CVD / PVD, electroplating, polymers

- surface patterning, incl. femtosecond laser processing

- surface treatments, incl. laser shock peening, SMAT

2. Hybrid Multifunctional Structural Materials Laboratory

- multi-component 3D printing

- freeze-casting

- high-T sintering for ceramics

3. Laboratory for in situ Fabrication & Characterisation

- analysis chambers for in situ imaging

- in situ film growth chamber

ExisJ ng kit New kit

Characterise & analyse Electron microscopy X-ray imaging

Chemical analysis, X-ray diffrac/ o n , etc. Micromechanical tes/ n g suite

New materials systems ‘innovation chain’

2D Materials

www.royce.ac.uk/2D-materials

Champion: Prof. Vladimir Falko, Manchester.

A new paradigm of “materials on demand”: van der Waals hybrids and nanocomposite materials based on atomically thin 2D crystals

• Already identified stable 2D crystals (metal/ superconductor NbSe2; semi-metallic graphenes; topological insulators BiSbTeSe, SnTe, PbSnTe; semiconductors MoS2, MoSe2, MoTe2, WSe2, WTe2, ReS2, ReSe2, GaS, GaSe, GaTe, InSe, etc; insulator hBN) – plus the synthesis of new ones.

• Model physical properties of 2D crystals and their heterostructures; create and engineer prototype heterostructures with properties tailored for optoelectronics applications; composites for thermal contact interfaces and thermo-voltaic elements.

• Develop stable, jettable inks based on 2DM suitable for a broad range of substrates including flexible, paper and textiles; develop multi-layered materials by combining two or more inks of different 2DM to fine-tune the properties of the resulting composites.

• Use 2DM to enhance properties of composites (polymers, paints, resins, etc).

• Standardised characterisation and quality criteria for 2D materials.

Biomedical Materials and Devices www.royce.ac.uk/chemical-materials-discovery

Champion: Prof. Andrew Cooper

• The Materials Computational Discovery Centre (MCDC) combines high performance computing and materials science and forms part of the Royce Institute.

• The new Materials Innovation Factory (MIF) is aiming to be the world leader in computer aided material science by 2020.

• The Manchester Hub will provide advanced digital manufacturing capabilities, allowing the printing of a wide range of functional materials

Example areas of research

High Throughput development: new or improved techniques to enhance capability.

New materials discovery: automated synthesis & characterisation to discover wholly new materials with step-changes in performance.

Material optimisation: “scaling-out” the development of existing products to improve performance, reduce costs or strengthen IP claims.

Property / behaviour investigation: automated or parallel experimentation to facilitate detailed mechanistic investigations, kinetic studies, reproducibility studies, etc.

Atoms to Devices: Design & Realisation of New Materials Systems

www.royce.ac.uk/a2d Champions: Prof. Neil Alford, Imperial

Prof. Edmund Linfield, Leeds.

• The theme will adopt a vertically integrated approach (Atoms to Devices)

• It will integrate well with Materials Discovery at Liverpool

• Bottom-up and top-down materials synthesis for thin films and associated nanostructures

• In-situ characterisation (with links to Diamond/ ISIS)

• Thick films from nanosized powders and solution-precursors

• Structural and electronic characterisation

• Device design and testing

Advanced Metals Processing

www.royce.ac.uk/advanced-metals-processing

Champion: Prof. Mark Rainforth, Sheffield.

• Alloys with higher performance with better manufacturability, greater flexibility and reduced cost

• Lower environmental impact: reduced CO2, reduced reliance on strategic elements, designed for whole life cycle (cradle to grave)

• Agile and lean manufacturing: near net shape, flexible, tailored to customer requirements

• Net shape repair systems

• Hybrid materials

• Transport sector components: lighter, stronger, cheaper

• The ability to make alloys at a scale that is relevant to research and to upscaling

Energy Storage

www.royce.ac.uk/energy-storage

Champion: Prof. Peter Bruce

Research will focus on ionically conducting solids; the synthesis of new materials with new properties, or combinations of properties; understanding these properties and exploring their applications in new energy storage devices.

Materials for Energy Efficient ICT

www.royce.ac.uk/materials-for-energy-efficient-ict/

Champion: Prof. Sir Richard Friend.

Aim: Reduction in energy and material consumed directly by ICT devices and in other sectors enabled by the application of energy efficient ICT.

Broad Themes

• Materials for Energy Efficient Generation

– Harvesting energy for autonomous wireless devices

– Photovoltaic, thermoelectric, vibrational, electromagnetic

• Materials for Energy Efficient Storage

– Storage for ICT applications – batteries, supercapacitors

– Improved energy density, longevity, cost, integration

• Materials for Energy Efficient Use

– Radical approaches to low-energy memory and processing

– Topological, magnetic, spintronic and superconducting systems

Maxwell Centre (UKRPIF-funded) • Opened in November 2015 on

West Cambridge site.

• Strong focus on industrial engagement.

• Will host Cambridge spoke of the Royce Institute

Industrial Engagement with Royce

• The Royce Institute is open for business and we welcome enquiries

• A flexible, multi-level approach to industrial partnerships:

- Strategic investment partner incl. opportunity to establish labs and offices within the Hub building

- Contract research

- Collaborative R&D

- Access model to use equipment

- Visiting researchers/ secondments

www.royce.ac.uk