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New Year Post - Welcome to the Community: Royce at the University of Sheffield

Happy New Year from Royce at the University of Sheffield

Welcome to 2026 and our first official post from the team. Our ambition is to bring together the advance materials community.

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Professor Alice Pyne has received the 2026 BBS Louise Johnson Early Career Award

Professor Pyne has been recognised for her outstanding contributions to the field of biophysics and will present an invited lecture on her work at the 2026 British Biophysical Society (BBS) Biennial meeting in Glasgow.
NanoMEGAS

Advanced Tribology and Wear Research at The University of Sheffield Using NanoMEGAS

The Sorby Centre for Electron Microscopy, School of Chemical Materials and Biological Engineering, The University of Sheffield
3d Printing - Acconity Mini

Finding out about Additive Manufacturing

Integral to our role here at Royce is outreach. This week we welcomed Lila on a work experience placement to the RDC. She's been investigating a couple of facilities and this is what she's observed in Additive Manufacturing with Dr. George Maddison.
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Redefining data management for materials researchers

Data Management for Materials Researchers, a one-day Henry Royce Institute workshop, connected 150 people virtually to address challenges researchers face in current data management practises.
A diagram explaining the hub and spoke links between the systems that currently benefit from the digitisation of materials science.

A materials data curation system - development of a core framework for materials 4.0 in academia

Materials 4.0 is currently very high up the materials research agenda. Dr Ben Thomas from our Department of Materials Science, explains how we are adopting digital tools and technologies in manufacturing and developing a materials data framework.
Sam Lister fills a FAST-Forge mould with titanium swarf

Swarf titanium to engine parts in 3 steps

Creating a Step-Change in the Economics of Titanium.
A poster by Lauren Levine from the Royce Internship

Sheffield students take full advantage of Royce summer internship programme

Four University of Sheffield undergraduates have benefited from a new summer internship programme offered by the Henry Royce Institute for advanced materials.
A CGI image of a red brick university building called the Royce Discovery Centre

Materials discovery to be transformed by new cutting-edge research centre

A new research centre that will transform how we discover new materials for industry and train the next generation of materials scientists has reached a key milestone in its construction at the University of Sheffield.