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Events at the Henry Royce Institute

And from around the Materials Community

Royce at Cranfield: Hydrogen Material Challenges Short Course
17
March

17 March 2025 - 20 March 2025
All Day

On the 17-20 March 2025, Cranfield University will be hosting a “Hydrogen Material Challenges” short course, supported by the Henry Royce Institute. This course will focus on providing delegates with both practical and experimental knowledge on the fundamental material challenges faced by all components in the hydrogen supply chain: production, storage and distribution, and use.


Event Type: Short Course


Lead Partner:none


Location: Cranfield University

Royce Training: Thin-Film Device Manufacturing
18
March

18 March 2025 - 20 March 2025
All Day

This course will introduce participants to the fundamentals of vacuum technologies and develop knowledge on essential concepts in thin film deposition techniques. It will provide a foundation in microfabrication methods, such as photolithography and ion milling, essential for advanced research and thin film device manufacturing.


Event Type: Training


Lead Partner:Imperial College London


Location: Michael Uren Building, Imperial College London

Physics of Life 2025
24
March

24 March 2025 - 25 March 2025
All Day

The second edition of “Physics of Life 2025” will take place in Harrogate 24-27 March 2025 to represent and draw together the diverse UK biological physics community.


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Lead Partner:none


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NTPMI Workshop: Big Data Handling for Research Technical Professionals: Best Practice Workshop
31
March

31 March 2025 - 01 April 2025
All Day

This NTPMI workshop for Research Technical Professionals will consider the various challenges in handling data in materials science, such as: i) specification of metadata; ii) methods of compression or down-sampling; iii) data storage and retention practices; iv) sharing and tools for access. The idea is to gather perspectives on the above aspects to instigate discussions around working methods and best practices.


Event Type: NTPMI Training


Lead Partner:University of Manchester


Location: Royce Hub Building

Royce Training: Milling, Particle Characterisation, Tube Furnaces and Hardness Testing with Verder Scientific
07
May

07 May 2025 - 08 May 2025
All Day

In Collaboration with Verder Scientific, this course explores milling, particle characterisation, tube furnaces and hardness testing techniques involved in the fabrication of advanced materials. The content will cover the application of these processes across Royce’s research areas in advanced metals processing, biomedical materials, chemical materials design, and nuclear materials.


Event Type: Training


Lead Partner:University of Manchester


Location: Royce Hub Building

IOP British Carbon Group: Research into Carbon Treatment and Recycling
14
May

14 May 2025
All Day

Hosted by the British Carbon Group, this event will explore the technical and scientific aspects of carbon research with the potential to be applied to nuclear decommissioning. There is an opportunity for UK researchers to play a key role in emergent technologies, especially those that could be transferred from other industries and applications.


Event Type: Conference


Lead Partner:University of Manchester


Location: Henry Royce Institute Hub Building

CHEMUK 2025
21
May

21 May 2025 - 22 May 2025
All Day

CHEMUK is the UK’s leading trade show supporting the R&D, engineering, sourcing, manufacture, and management of chemicals and formulated products.


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Lead Partner:none


Location: The NEC | Birmingham

Royce Training: An Introduction to Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (EDS)
22
May

22 May 2025
9:30 am - 4:15 pm

This course will provide an introduction to energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) analysis for alloys at the Royce Hub Building in Manchester.

The content will introduce the concepts for the generation of X-rays for alloy analysis and EDS techniques on bulk samples. Participants will cover experimental produres, quantification methods, sample preparation and analysis artefacts. The course aims to develop understanding and guidance for practical experimentation to ensure the collection of high-quality EDS data.


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Lead Partner:University of Manchester


Location: Royce Hub Building

Royce Training: Analysing Your XPS Data
26
June

26 June 2025 - 27 June 2025
9:00 am - 4:30 pm

This workshop aims to bring together the local XPS user community to learn how to begin analysing XPS data. Through the demonstration of basic analysis principles, working with training datasets, and user-submitted examples, the content will help users of the university’s XPS facilities develop understanding of best practice approaches to exploring their own data.


Event Type: Skills


Lead Partner:University of Manchester


Location: Royce Hub Building

Microscience Microscopy Congress 2025 (mmc25)
01
July

01 July 2025 - 03 July 2025
All Day

The Microscience Microscopy Congress (mmc) will be back in 2025! One of the biggest events of its kind in Europe, mmc2025 incorporating EMAG 2025 will bring you the very best in microscopy, imaging and cytometry from across the globe.


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RSC Biomaterials Chemistry Group 16th Annual Meeting
10 January 2022 - 12 January 2022    
All Day
Annual meetings of the group are designed to promote biomaterials chemistry research and development, enhance existing links, foster new collaborations, and spread expertise.
Surface Ventures Workshop: Wettability
13 January 2022    
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
This workshop will review the fundamentals of surface chemistry, discuss wettability and contact angle analysis and introduce tensiometry to measure surface and interfacial tensions, followed by a demo of the DCAT tensiometer.
Workshop: Data Management for Materials Researchers
14 January 2022    
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
This hybrid event will bring together the materials community to discuss the importance of research data collection, storage and sharing, and examine related challenges.
X-ray photoelectron Spectroscopy Training Event
18 January 2022 - 20 January 2022    
12:30 pm - 4:30 am
The XPS facilities at the Henry Royce Institute are running an XPS training event over 3 afternoons from 18 – 20th January, 2022, with both in person and virtual sessions.
Mechanical characterisation of super soft hydrogels
20 January 2022    
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Presented by Surface Ventures Despite the ubiquitous use of soft aqueous hydrogels in biomedical applications, one of the major challenges is the ability to precisely [...]
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