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We specialise in solving technical, environmental and economic issues associated with power generation from renewable and non-renewable energy sources

Meet the staff of the Ceramics & Glass Research Group at Sheffield Hallam University’s Polymers, Nanocomposites & Modelling Research Centre. Experts in cutting-edge ceramics, glass, composites and materials modelling.

Innovate UK runs many regular competitions for funding in a range of different sectors and expertise. We monitor the criteria of each and every open and forthcoming competition to offer you expert, relevant funding opportunities for your business.

We specialise in optimising energy usage in domestic, industrial and commercial buildings, both newly built and retrofitting

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) give you and your organisation the structure and support you need to tackle strategic business challenges

This project is working with a team of surgeons and an NHS business development manager to devise novel mechanical expansion mechanisms for an innovative new device – the LaparOsphereTM - for space creation and organ retraction in laparoscopic surgery.

The programme aims to develop a truly inherent (molecular-level) synthetic auxetic (negative Poisson's ratio) polymer for real-world application. Working with the Materials and Fluid Flow Modelling group, we are extending our previous work on scaling down known macrostructures for theoretical cross-linked polymers, and understanding natural auxetic inorganic and organic crystalline nanostructures, to a fully 3D system having connectivity similar to that achievable in elastomer materials.

With significant expertise in materials characterisation methods we can solve industrial problems in a wide range of materials systems, using the state-of-the-art analysis techniques available in the Research Institute.

This project is being undertaken in collaboration with the University of Bristol and Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux for ENSEIRB-MATMECA to develop a new concept of a 'mechanical metamaterial' combining two unusual properties: negative Poisson's ratio (NPR - the material becomes fatter when pulled) and negative stiffness (NS - the material becomes shorter when pulled).

This project is focussed on developing new and improved impact protection materials and is part of a wider collaboration with the Centre for Sports Engineering Research and also Manchester Metropolitan University. A process to produce large area or volume isotropic, anisotropic and gradient one-piece auxetic foams is being developed, foams produced and characterised for their mechanical and impact response properties. Significant reductions in peak acceleration are being found for the auxetic foams relative to their conventional counterparts.