Our Partners
The University of Sheffield
Royce at the University of Sheffield is based across two purpose-built sites, the Royce Discovery Centre and the Royce Translational Centre. The University is a leading partner in the Royce Research Areas for Advanced Metals Processing, Modelling and Simulation and Imaging and Characterisation.
The University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is home to the Institute’s operational hub. Research facilities include the Royce Hub Building which features over £45m worth of equipment for materials research. The University leads on a number of Royce Research areas including 2D Materials, Biomedical Materials, Nuclear Materials and Material Systems for Demanding Environments amongst others.
University of Leeds
Royce operations at the University of Leeds are hosted within the Bragg Centre for Materials Research, hosting a range of leading and unique facilities to discover and develop new quantum materials for devices. Research at the University is focused around the Royce research area of Atoms to Devices.
UK National Nuclear Laboratory
Royce at UKNNL supports the development of materials associated with, or originating in, high neutron flux environments. Royce facilities include state-of-the-art laboratories for Irradiated Materials, Fuels and Actinides Handling and Characterisation, which are hosted within the partner’s National Nuclear User Facility. UKNNL supports the Royce Research Areas of Nuclear Materials and Imaging and Characterisation.
UK Atomic Energy Authority
Royce activities at UKAEA are housed in the Materials Research Facility (MRF), providing access to world-leading facilities for the preparation, characterisation and testing of β/γ radioactive materials. Supporting the Royce Research Area for Nuclear Materials UKAEA helps to bridge the gap between low activity university facilities and the high activity licensed nuclear sites.
University of Oxford
Royce at the University of Oxford provides cutting-edge facilities for research into air-sensitive energy storage materials. Situated across laboratories within the Rex Richards Building, Begbroke Science Park and the David Cockayne Centre for Electron Microscopy, the facilities support Royce research areas of Electrochemical Systems, Imaging and Characterisation and Modelling and Simulation.
University of Liverpool
Royce at The University of Liverpool hosts facilities within the Materials Innovation Factory and its Faculty of Science and Engineering, and is home to £10m worth of high-throughput robotics equipment to accelerate materials discovery through design. Chemical Materials Design, Imaging and Characterisation and Electrochemical Systems are the core Research areas of the University.
University of Cambridge
The Maxwell Centre at The University of Cambridge hosts versatile Royce facilities for the deposition, device fabrication and characterisation of novel materials, with further equipment and activity spanning across the West Cambridge Science and Technology Campus. Atoms to Devices and Biomedical Materials are core Royce research areas at the University of Cambridge.
Imperial College London
Royce at Imperial’s activity is hosted within the Sir Micheal Uren Hub on the University’s White City Campus and features leading capabilities in thin film deposition, patterning and milling, electrical testing, and advanced characterisation techniques, embracing the entire research and development life cycle. Atoms to Devices is the core Royce Research area at Imperial College London.
Associate Partners
Cranfield University
Royce facilities at Cranfield are situated within the University’s National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre, delivering leading capability and expertise in materials performance assessment and coatings design and manufacture for extreme environments. Cranfield University supports the research area of Materials Systems for Demanding Environments.
University of Strathclyde
Together with the Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) based at the University of Strathclyde, Royce offers forging and forming opportunities aligned into its Advanced Metals Processing Research Area. These facilities address the “missing gap” between small-scale laboratory metals processing and the industrial scale.
