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9 September 2021

Materials researcher recognised as leader of innovation

Dr Theodore Hanein, a researcher from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Future Leaders Fellowship from UKRI to help fund his £2.5m “Green, Circular, and Smart Cement Manufacture” project.

Front cover of the UK Fusion Materials Roadmap

9 September 2021

Taking a giant STEP towards making nuclear fusion power generation a viable option

With input from academics from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, a new Fusion Materials Roadmap highlights five major areas of work required to develop the materials for future fusion power plants.

Fully crystallized iPP+NR. - Isotactic polypropylene (iPP) labelled with Nile Red (NR), fully crystallized, internal structure of a block using confocal microscopy. Spherulite centres are dark-blue/black, spherulite boundaries are yellow.

20 August 2021

Finding crockery in nanocomposites

Professor Goran Ungar and Dr Xiangbing Zeng of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, along with researchers in China and Romania, have developed an imaging technique to investigate the morphology of nanocomposites in three dimensions.

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).

Department Secures Silver Award from Athena Swan

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering has retained its Silver Award from Athena Swan for the second time in a row, in recognition of its work to ensure gender equality in the workplace.

9 September 2021

Researcher receives Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship award

Department researcher and lecturer, Dr Lewis Owen, has been awarded a prestigious Research Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering to support his research and give access mentoring from Academy Fellows.

24 August 2021

2021 ISIS Science Impact Award for Engineering Academic

Professor Serena Corr, who works across the Departments of Materials Science & Engineeing and Chemical & Biological Engineering has been named winner of the 2021ISIS Science Impact Award for her work applying muon spin relaxation spectroscopy.

11 August 2021

Dr Amy Gandy recognised for impact on society and economy

Dr Gandy has been awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship in recognition of her research that promises significant benefits to society and the economy.

5 August 2021

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