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Events at the Henry Royce Institute

And from around the Materials Community

IOM3 Surface Technologies Group Webinar Series: Energy
29
April

29 April 2025
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Join us for the first instalment of the IOM3 Surface Technologies Group Webinar Series, where Royce Professor Ping Xiao will chair a discussion exploring the role of surface engineering in the energy sector. This session will delve into cutting-edge advancements in coatings, materials, and surface treatments that enhance performance, efficiency, and sustainability in energy applications.


Event Type: Webinar


Lead Partner:University of Manchester

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

GROWTH UK Online Seminar 4: Testing batteries performance - Elucidating chemical degradation and SEI formation in batteries with microchip-based electrochemistry mass spectrometry
14
May

14 May 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

In this online seminar, Dr. Bethan Davies, Research Associate. Imperial College London will give a talk on Testing batteries performance – Elucidating chemical degradation and SEI formation in batteries with microchip-based electrochemistry mass spectrometry


Event Type: Webinar


Lead Partner:Imperial College London

NTPMI Workshop: Automated Formulation Mindset Workshop
15
May

15 May 2025
10:30 am - 4:30 pm

This workshop aims to upskill Research Technical Professionals (RTPs) in the concepts of Automated Formulation by exposing them to World Class practitioners, speakers and the experience of fellow RTPs working in this area, along with a guided tour of the state-of-the-art facilities at the Materials Innovation Factory housed at the University of Liverpool. 


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Lead Partner:University of Liverpool


Location: Materials Innovation Factory

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

European Materials Research Society 2025 Spring Meeting
26
May

26 May 2025 - 30 May 2025
All Day

The 2025 Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) organized with the Foundation Jean-Marie Lehn will be held at the Convention & Exhibition Centre of Strasbourg (France), from May 26 to 30, 2025.

The conference will consist of 23 parallel symposia with invited speakers, oral and poster presentations assorted by a plenary session to provide an international forum for discussing recent advances in the field of materials science. The meeting will be augmented by an exhibition of products and services of interest to the conference participants.


Event Type: Conference


Lead Partner:none


Location: Palais de la Musique et des Congrès

GROWTH UK Online Seminar 5: Graphene and 2D material deposition at the GEIC
11
June

11 June 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

In this online seminar, Dr. Andrew Strudwick, Application Manager at the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre will give a talk on Graphene and 2D material deposition at the GEIC


Event Type: Webinar


Lead Partner:University of Manchester

Tissue & Cell Engineering Society (TCES) Conference 2025
18
June

18 June 2025 - 20 June 2025
All Day

This three-day event will feature cutting-edge science from internationally renowned keynote speakers, opportunities for early career researchers to give podium and poster presentations, a “meet-the-mentor” session, and networking events on the first two nights.

The Biomedical Materials team at Royce will exhibit at this year’s Tissue & Cell Engineering Society Conference and will be on hand throughout the event to answer questions about leading Materials Research expertise and capability available to access through Royce.  


Event Type: Conference


Lead Partner:University of Manchester


Location: Queen Elizabeth Conference Hall

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Discover Materials at the ASE Annual Conference 2023
05 January 2024 - 07 January 2024    
12:00 am
Europe's largest festival of science education CPD, the ASE Annual Conference (in partnership with AQA), returns to Sheffield Hallam University from Thursday 5th to Saturday 7th January 2023.
UK SPM/AFM Users Meeting 2024
16 January 2024 - 17 January 2024    
All Day
Bruker invite all researchers using or interested in Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) techniques to join Bruker, The University of Manchester, and an exciting panel of guest speakers to this year's 2024 SPM/AFM Users Meeting.
EASI-STRESS Webinar: Residual stress analysis by the contour method
19 January 2024    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The contour method is a technique for destructively quantifying the residual stress in metallic components stemming from processing inputs. While the requirements for employing this technique are fairly minimal as it often requires only electro discharge machining and metrology facilities, the experimental and analysis aspects are non-trivial. In this presentation, the experimental aspects which need to be considered as well as analytical paradigms will be described.
Royce Training: Practical Cleanroom Skills - Created in partnership by the Universities of Leeds and Cambridge, and Swansea University
22 January 2024 - 26 January 2024    
All Day
This Royce Training course will explore basic practices and techniques for cleanroom use. Through a combination of taught lectures, discussion sessions, and practical training participants will gain fundamental skills for working in ‘clean-fab’ cleanrooms. The content will develop theoretical and practical knowledge in processes such as lithography, deposition, and etching; with participants using what they learn to fabricate a micro-scale Field Effect Transistor.
Bragg Exchange 2024
23 January 2024 - 24 January 2024    
All Day
The Bragg Exchange 2024 offers a platform for all to learn, connect, and contribute to the future of materials science here at the University of Leeds. Students, academics, researchers - all are welcome to register and get involved!
Stress-free transition metal nitride coatings
25 January 2024    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
This seminar from Surface Ventures will cover: The role of metal-ion irradiation in thin film growth, advancements in High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS), Nanostructure control pathways with light and heavy metal ions, low-temperature synthesis of hard; stress-free ceramic coating and the discovery of Guinier-Preston (GP) zone hardening in cubic-TiAlWN.
APPLIED DIFFRACTION REFINEMENT
29 January 2024    
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
X-ray powder diffraction is one of the most common in-house characterisation methods, used to provide information on a host of different samples including metals, ceramics, battery materials and pharmaceuticals. This course will explore powder diffraction refinement techniques used to analyse the data obtained.
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29 Jan 24
Sheffield,