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Events at the Henry Royce Institute

And from around the Materials Community

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. 


Event Type: Workshop


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

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

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Applied Diffraction Refinement Course
01 September 2023    
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
X-ray powder diffraction is one of the most common in-house characterisation methods, with its application being of interest for samples including metals, ceramics, mastery materials and pharmaceuticals, Dr Lewis Owen has devised a course aimed at arming delegates with the knowledge and skills to devise their own diffraction refinement work.
Henry Royce Institute National Conference 2023
06 September 2023 - 07 September 2023    
All Day
Join the Henry Royce Institute for our flagship National Conference 2023, Collaborate to Innovate, to explore the impact of materials innovation and understand more about how important collaboration across industry and academia is transforming businesses and industries.
Royce Imaging and Characterisation Showcase
06 September 2023 - 07 September 2023    
All Day
The Showcase will promote Royce Imaging and Characterisation capabilities from across the Partnership, embracing our state-of-the-art equipment which can probe the structure, composition, and mechanical properties of all materials from macro down to nanoscale.
Faraday Institution Conference 2023
11 September 2023 - 13 September 2023    
All Day
Join the Faraday Institute from Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 September 2023 at the University of Birmingham’s Teaching and Learning Centre for what will be their largest and most open science dissemination and networking event to date.
International Workshop on 'Near-field Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy'
12 September 2023 - 13 September 2023    
All Day
This multidisciplinary event will bring together researchers working on optical nano-imaging and nano-spectroscopy with applications in a range of systems from solid state to biology. Techniques such as s-SNOM, nanoFTIR, AFM-IR and other tip-enhanced methods will be discussed
Recycling & Waste Management Expo 2023
13 September 2023 - 14 September 2023    
All Day
The Resource & Waste Management Expo (RWM) is the UK’s premier event for professionals working in the recycling, resource, waste, and broader environmental services industry. RWM invites participants to engage in critical discussions, explore ground-breaking green technologies, and to utilise the event as an international springboard for innovative waste and resource solutions that address the world’s environmental challenges.
UK Metals Expo
13 September 2023 - 14 September 2023    
All Day
Join Royce at the University of Sheffield at the UK Metals Expo 2023. The entire metals supply chain will be represented from primary metal manufacture, supply chain management, processing metals, fabrication, surface coatings and recycling with industry experts, leading vendors and trade attendees.
Fibre Technology Platform Showcase Event
19 September 2023    
All Day
The first Henry Royce Institute ‘Fibre Technology Platform Showcase’ will introduce Royce equipment and capabilities to a wide audience, including both academia and industry. The event will feature talks from academics and industrial providers related to fibre technology research and development (i.e. commercial delivery/production and case studies of academic innovation). This will be followed by a facilities tour - including wet and melt spinning lines, the nanofibers to devices suite with pilot-scale production capability and melt-electrospinning.
Twistronics of 2D materials: from modelling to real systems
20 September 2023 - 22 September 2023    
All Day
National Graphene Institute (NGI) are running a workshop ‘Twistronics of 2D Materials: from modelling to real systems’. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from different modelling communities and experimentalists to discuss recent advances in the field of twistronics as well as future directions.
Introduction to Intellectual Property: Shaped for Materials Science
26 September 2023    
10:00 am - 11:00 am
In this webinar, Henry Shine and Neal Pollock, patent attorneys at Wilson Gunn, will provide a beginner-friendly overview of the main intellectual property rights and concepts applicable to the field of materials science. The aim is to help viewers better understand and navigate the path to research commercialisation, through a description of real-world case studies to show how the theory was put into practice for previous materials science innovations.
Stand Out Skills | An Introduction to Standards
27 September 2023    
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Stand Out Skills is a webinar series for early career researchers working in materials science disciplines. Hosted by experts, each episode will explore useful presentation, communication, or career skills for researchers which aren’t normally taught as a part of traditional education pathways for materials scientists.
Sustainable Futures Seminar Series
28 September 2023    
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Our September edition of the monthly Sustainable Futures Seminar Series will be held on Thursday 28th September 2-3pm.This event will discuss the 'One Bin to Rule Them All' project, led by The University of Manchester alongside 17 companies and local and national authorities.
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