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17 March 2021

Path to net zero: Professor Corr advises parliamentarians on battery technologies

Professor Serena Corr, Chair in Functional Nanomaterials from the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering, appeared before the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday 16 March.

Murmuration of Starlings — Murmurating starlings appear to behave as one despite there being many hundreds of birds. "Starlings murmurate around the i360" by susie2778 is licensed with CC BY-NC 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)

3 March 2021

Magnetic materials attract attention for reservoir computing

The study of domain walls in ferromangnetic nanorings has demonstrated behavior which has the potential to be useful in the development of reservoir computing, a brain-inspired computing method.

SEM image of freeze dried Bacterial Cellulose, showing the fibrous nature of the material.

22 February 2021

Developing bio-based materials for a greener world.

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have been developing a range of bio-based materials with the potential to replace non-recyclable plastics in packaging applications and are now making progress on up-scaling production processes.

17 February 2021

First videos to show the helix of ‘dancing DNA’ developed by scientists

Videos allowing us to see for the first time how small circles of DNA adopt dance-like movements inside a cell have been developed by researchers at universities in Yorkshire.

The Science of Spitting Snakes

Some cobras have developed the ability to spit their venom from their fangs as well as inject it into their prey, but has evolution changed the formulation of the venom to make it more suitable for spitting?

7 April 2021

A series of five images showing unreadable data next to an image of histogram showing readable data

New software TopoStats accelerates DNA discoveries

A new software package allowing scientists to quantify how small circles of DNA change their structure has been developed by researchers at universities in the UK and Germany.

31 March 2021

High strength steels offer the potential to lower CO2 emissions in the automotive industry

Researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have developed a completely new way of making high strength steel that is easy to adapt to mass manufacture.

22 February 2021

Schematic of formation and coalescence of Uranium Oxide nanoclusters on magnetite.

Developments in the treatment of radioactive waste

Ongoing research from the Nuclear Materials research group continues to develop the understanding of how radioactive waste materials can be processed for long-term safe storage. Two recent developements are reviewed here.

11 January 2021

Nature paper published on a newly discovered solid state electrolyte

Research from across two University of Sheffield Engineering Departments - Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering - has revealed a new type of solid electrolyte which could be used batteries of the future.

15 December 2020