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Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering achieve top-five places in Guardian rankings 2027

Outstanding results highlight the School’s strength across its subject areas
Meihong Wang, James Marshall, Ian Reaney

Three academics from the Faculty of Engineering have been elected as Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows

Congratulations to Professor Meihong Wang and Professor Ian Reaney from the School who join the Royal Academy of Engineering as Fellows.
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Dr Karl Travis joins the Independent Advisory Committee for the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center (DBDC)

The Deep Borehole Demonstration Center has added three experts to its Independent Advisory Committee. Dr Karl Travis joins Emeritus Professor Neil Chapman, who is Chair of the committee.

Mockup of Xerode’s dry electrode printing system
Mockup of Xerode’s dry electrode printing system, capable of continuous roll-to-roll manufacture.

Spinout spotlight: Xerode

Xerode, a spinout from the University of Sheffield’s School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering, is developing a solvent-free, dry digital printing process for coating battery electrodes.

Prof. Tuck Seng Wong showing a research poster to the Foreign Secretary

UK-South East Asia Vaccine Manufacturing Research Hub receives visit from the Foreign Secretary

The UK-South East Asia Vaccine Manufacturing Research Hub was one of the projects showcased to the Foreign Secretary during his recent visit to Thailand.

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From the lab to a national conference - "Watts Next?" for undergraduate student Melisha.

Undergraduate student, Melisha, presented her project at SSRC 2024: Watts Next? The future of anode materials for Na-Ion batteries Influence of Ti valence states and its electrochemical performance in Na2Ti3O7 as Na-ion batteries anode.
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Dr John Beech obituary

It is with great sadness that the University of Sheffield’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering announces the death of Dr John Beech, who passed away on 4 November 2023.

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Products Made from CO2 Emissions Initiative Begins

Science sector collaboration achieves major milestone in project towards net-zero manufacture of household products.

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University of Sheffield to train next generation of engineers, key to UK growth

Engineers with high quality skills in digital manufacturing- key to boosting UK productivity- are set to be trained by the University of Sheffield. Materials Science and Engineering at 51²è¹Ý¶ù will be partnering in the Mats4.0 and Fusion Power CDTs