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Liang Kong presenting at Young Energy Researchers Conference
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University of Sheffield Doctoral Researcher presents metamodel at international conference

Doctoral Research Liang Kong attended the World Sustainable Energy Days 2025 (WSED) event in Austria, as a young energy efficiency researcher.
Scientist using a biological safety cabinet

The University of Sheffield to co-lead £5m hub to support national nuclear waste strategy

The next generation of experts needed to safely and securely manage the UK’s legacy nuclear materials will be trained by The Universities of Manchester and Sheffield.

Lightweight manufacturing at the AMRC

University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment

The University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment, according to the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
A close up of a fuel pump connected to a car

US and China lead G20 in search for hydrogen fuels

The US and China are leading the G20 in efforts to develop hydrogen fuels, according to new research from the University of Sheffield.
a huge limestone quarry of multiple levels

Low temperature method for decarbonising limestone locks carbon dioxide up as a mineral

Theodore Hanein, Hajime Kinoshita and colleagues have proposed a new scalable process that decarbonises calcium carbonate, generating calcium hydroxide (which can be used to produce cement clinker) and sodium carbonate.

| Published by Chemistry World
a diagram of the proposed microgrid

New integrated hybrid microgrid could supply renewable, cheap and efficient energy to remote areas

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have proposed a new integrated hybrid solar thermal and wind-based microgrid power system.

Cement works

New material research aims to reduce the environmental impact of both cement and steel industries

A research team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering which includes three Energy Institute members, is looking at taking waste products from the steel industry and using them as a base material for cement production.

the translational energy research centre from the left hand side

The Translational Energy Research Centre hosts the first UK-Japan symposium on advanced materials for hydrogen and fuel cells

The Translational Energy Research Centre, in partnership with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Kyushu University, hosted the first ever UK-Japan symposium on advanced materials for hydrogen and fuel cells.

| Published by The Translational Energy Research Centre
Professor Neil Hyatt

Energy Institute co-director appointed to Chief Scientist role at Radioactive Waste Management

Neil Hyatt, Professor of Radioactive Waste Management and member of the Energy Institute management team, will be leaving the University of Sheffield in the new year to take up the position of Chief Scientist at Radioactive Waste Management.