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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

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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Lead Partner:none

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Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials
07 September 2022 - 08 September 2022    
All Day
This two-day meeting is organised by the Atoms2Devices Research Area of the Henry Royce Institute in partnership with SPIE and seeks to connect experts, industry members, and students focused on the enabling role of advanced functional materials in future technologies.
First UK Workshop on High-Entropy Materials
09 September 2022    
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
The workshop is aimed at those with an interest in high-entropy materials in the UK, including researchers, academics and industrialists, and aims to identify and establish a UK community on high-entropy materials, highlighting areas of challenge and opportunity, and will create a forum for sharing ideas, and enabling greater networking and formation of new partnerships.
International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems
12 September 2022 - 15 September 2022    
All Day
This will be the Sixth International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-6) organised by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency.
Royce Student Summit
13 September 2022 - 14 September 2022    
All Day
The Royce Student Summit presents the opportunity for the UK Materials PhD and EngD community to come together to share ideas, network and learn more about transitioning from doctoral study to the next steps on the career ladder.    This year, we are delighted to host the summit at the recently opened Royce Hub Building at The University of Manchester on the 13th and 14th September 2022. Where possible, we will stream and record talks, and offer virtual attendance to the workshops.
Material Characterization Additive Manufacturing Seminar
13 September 2022    
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
The seminar will focus on the requirements and techniques used to characterise and qualify materials (and parts) for additive manufacturing - polymers, composites, and metals, followed by practical introductions from Netzsch and Malvern Panalytical to their key characterisation tools for additive manufacturing.
Transfer-printing for heterogeneous integration in manufacturing
15 September 2022    
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The ambition of Hetero-print is to deliver micro- and nano-transfer printing as the technology for the versatile and scalable manufacture of heterogeneous materials, structures and devices. In achieving this, we will introduce significant new capabilities for the manufacture of electronic, photonic, and other systems, which complement and are synergistic with those of established semiconductor mass-manufacturing methods including vacuum deposition and solution processing.
Design, synthesis and application of next-generation organic semiconductors
16 September 2022    
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
A one-day meeting on the design, synthesis and application of next-generation organic semiconductors.
RSC Surface Coatings Group - Royce at the University of Manchester Presentation and Tour
20 September 2022    
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
RSC Surface Coatings Group have organised a program of talks and tour to explore the facilities and research at the Royce Hub Building. The meeting will take place at the University of Manchester but will include contributions from other Royce facilities around the country. 
Para-Lab Report 2022: Opening and Symposium
23 September 2022 - 24 September 2022    
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
para-lab Report 2022 is an exhibition showcasing research and artefacts from various ongoing long-term collaborations between artists and scientists, kindly supported by the EPSRC Programme Grant ‘MIDAS’ (EP/S01702X/1), at the University of Manchester.
Electron Microscopy Day: Presented by Thermo Fisher Scientific in partnership with Blue Scientific
27 September 2022    
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Thermo Fisher Scientific, in partnership with Blue Scientific, will be hosting an event to demonstrate how high-resolution imaging analysis can be used across a wide variety of applications.
Planet, Plastics, Pastries: Sustainability Coffee Morning
29 September 2022    
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Join the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub (SMI Hub) at the Royce Hub Building for a Sustainability Coffee Morning: Planet, Plastics, Pastries.
Environmentally acceptable lubricants: current challenges and future trends
29 September 2022    
9:00 am - 10:00 am
there is an urgent need for a global shift from mineral lubricating oils to environmentally acceptable lubricants (EALs) to meet the UN sustainable goals. Switching from conventional base stocks to EALs can cause new challenges.
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