The School’s staff bring expertise across diverse materials disciplines, driving advancements in specific materials and processes aligned with one or more of our societal impact themes. This approach has fostered clusters of excellence in the discovery, design, development, and application of materials across the following six main areas.
We design and develop environmentally friendly materials and processes, focusing on material life-cycle strategies, recycling innovations, and green material technologies to reduce environmental impact.
We combine experimental research with AI-assisted computational discovery to design and optimise 2D and 3D materials for energy applications, including batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, solar cells, catalysts, and thermoelectric devices.
We work on the experimental and AI-assisted computational design of 1D to 3D materials for electronic and photonic applications, including ferroelectrics, multiferroics, semiconductors, quantum dots, topological insulators, and superconductors.
We create advanced materials for medical and biological applications, including implants, tissue engineering scaffolds, drug delivery systems, aerosols, wearable electronics, and bio-inspired functional materials.
We design strong and durable materials for the aerospace, automotive, construction and consumer goods sectors, including advanced steels, light alloys, polymers, ceramics, and composites, manufactured through both additive and subtractive processes.
We develop metallic, ceramic and composite materials and surface coatings that maintain exceptional performance under harsh, complex conditions, such as elevated temperatures, highly abrasive and corrosive environments, intense radiation, and severe mechanical and thermal stresses.
