Advanced materials

Our advanced materials research uses techniques underpinned by computer simulations and robotics. Our work has applications in clean energy, sustainable living, manufacturing, healthcare, and consumer products.

Supported by our dynamic Materials Innovation Factory, we are actively looking for new advances in materials that can have large-scale applications in industrial manufacturing, healthcare and consumer products.

Advanced materials research activities

Saving energy with a coat of paint Row of terraced houses

Saving thermal energy with a coat of paint

Find out how we're developing solutions to help save thermal energy and reduce CO2 emissions in domestic settings.

Flow chemistry

We are utilising new platforms to manufacture materials and scale them up for use in industry. Find out more.

Transforming sulfur Transforming sulfur into an alternative to plastics

Transforming sulfur

Explore how our chemists discovered a new catalytic process to make polymers out of sulfur.

The Power of 10X: Using Materials Innovation to Reach Net Zero

We are integrating scientific insight, machine learning and lab automation, to shorten research and innovation time to fundamentally change global industry with new materials. This will enable new forms of energy use and storage, and recyclable and sustainable products.