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An engineer looking at a tablet next to a production line inside a factory

27 July 2021

University of Sheffield takes central role in new digital manufacturing research centres, with the aim of boosting UK manufacturing productivity

The University of Sheffield is to play a key role in the UK’s new Manufacturing Made Smarter research centres announced today (27 July 2021).

Photographs of samples from one repeat of sample, with the mean RGB values and their corresponding ‘best match’ Pantone colour code.

8 June 2021

Colour analyses prove useful in nuclear forensics

Researchers from the Nuclear Materials research group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering have proposed that, using high resolution imaging, it should be possible to analyse the constituent parts of powdered nuclear material.

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.

Damehood for former Sheffield academic

Professor Helen Atkinson, a former academic in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2021, receiving a Damehood for her services to engineering and education.

20 July 2021

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

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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

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.

17 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