Public UKIZ campus
Advanced Materials
Checked updates, public activity and useful routes for the Advanced Materials campus.
Advanced Materials campus
Campus activity
Make Britain the place where new materials are discovered, qualified and manufactured.
Places
Where this capability is concentrated across Britain, with the evidence behind each place.
Organisations
Companies, universities, research institutes and public bodies recorded against this campus.
Facilities
Laboratories, test beds and specialist equipment you can access, wherever they are located.
Current jobs and funding
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Upcoming events
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Useful activity
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The answer
Make Britain the place where new materials are discovered, qualified and manufactured.
- Materials determine what is possible in energy, mobility, defence, semiconductors and health.
- Qualification, not discovery, is the usual bottleneck.
- Britain has deep materials research adjacent to real manufacturing.
Why BritainGraphene and two-dimensional materials research leadership.An unusually strong applied research and Catapult estate.Existing metals, composites and coatings manufacturing base.
Step inside
The Advanced Materials campus
The record set, drawn as a place you can walk through: research, test facilities, companies, people, funding and what moved this week.
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Illustrative UKIZ campus. Not a proposed site.What Britain already has
Research base
- University of Manchester
- University of Sheffield
- University of Liverpool
- Swansea University
Infrastructure recorded
- Qualification and testing facilities
- Pilot production lines
- Characterisation equipment
- Scale-up manufacturing
What Britain is genuinely good at
- Henry Royce Institute
- Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Rotherham
- National Composites Centre
- Materials Innovation Factory, Liverpool
What we’re less certain about
- Time and cost of qualification
- Access to pilot-scale production
- Corporate adoption risk appetite
These are open questions UKIZ holds against this campus, not weaknesses we have proven.
Where the capability is
What UKIZ holds for this campus
My UKIZ
Mission record set
What UKIZ holds on UK advanced materials
The digital campus
Advanced Materials in Britain, as it stands today.
Materials sit upstream of almost every other mission. Britain discovers materials well and qualifies and manufactures them slowly, which is where the value is lost.
Every line below is a record with a date. Where UKIZ holds nothing, it says so rather than filling the space.
Sources and freshness
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Records come from published sources: filings, university and Catapult pages, government announcements and organisation-supplied information, each marked as such. Inferred facts are labelled inferred.