Our Research Areas
2D Materials
Maintaining the UK’s leadership in science and technology of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials composites. Developing new high-performance and energy-efficient materials enabling new architectures and fabrication methods for electronics and optoelectronics devices.

Atoms to devices
Through the deposition of precisely controlled thin films, the engineering of interfaces, and the ability to control doping on the nanoscale, Atoms to Devices enables the design of new devices and new technological solutions that underpin a breadth of societal applications.

Chemicals Materials Design
Pioneering methods in computer aided design, machine learning, and robotics for materials discovery and characterisation. Accelerating innovation in the discovery and development of materials with desired properties and minimal environmental impact. Delivering faster and more sustainable synthetic methods to chemical, catalytic and biological materials.

Material Systems for Demanding Environments
Providing material system solutions to address the needs of energy and transport sectors where conventional structural materials solutions fail, and enhance efficiencies by increasing operation temperatures, withstanding harsher environments and being able to predict with much greater certainty the life of components.

Modelling and Simulation
The Modelling and Simulation Research Area aims to support UK materials researchers across academia and industry to access the power of materials modelling in understanding and improving materials. We support researchers who use modelling and simulations themselves, but also provide a route for new collaborations between industry and academia or between simulation and experiment.

Advanced Metals Processing
Building on the UK’s strength in metals processing to provide the support needed to deliver innovative metals technologies and novel alloy solutions. Advanced Metals Processing is enabling the UK metal industries to transition to a resource efficient, zero-pollution, digitalised and agile future.

Biomedical Materials
Accelerating the discovery, manufacture and translation of biomedical materials, enhancing the UK’s position as an international leader in the fields of biomaterials and biomedical systems and devices.

Electrochemical Systems
Delivering substantial advances in efficient energy storage, new energy vectors, and chemical synthesis through novel electrochemical devices and systems.

Nuclear materials
Increasing the UK’s existing economic strengths and competitive advantages in nuclear energy, and support its net-zero ambitions, by enabling innovation in research on radioactive materials, including an experiment with-modelling approach, via a co-ordinated network of national laboratories, nuclear user facilities, and expertise. Developing vibrant industry- and academic-led programmes which accelerate nuclear’s contribution to deep decarbonisation.

Imaging and Characterisation
Our Imaging and Characterisation research area aims to provide and support access to the cutting-edge techniques applicable across the entire scope of Royce’s research areas. This includes the specific expertise needed to describe and quantify the structure and properties of such a broad range of advanced materials.
