Big Science Roadshow 2014

UKTI and partner organisations are travelling across England to raise awareness of procurement opportunities from large-scale global scientific infrastructure projects. This series of four...
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By Rob Mills 06/03/14 59 Views

2014 Call for Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) proposals

Following the adoption of the Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) and the EIT’s amended Regulation by the European Parliament and Council in December 2013, the EIT's 2014 Call for Knowledge and...
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By Rob Mills 06/03/14 66 Views

Business Focus on Enforcement

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills know that businesses sometimes find:   guidance or advice from their regulators confusing regulators give...
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By Rob Mills 19/02/14 70 Views

New funding opportunity and activity in Graphene

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has recently announced a new funding competition for feasibility studies to accelerate commercial applications in graphene.  This compeition...
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By Stella Job 18/02/14 101 Views

EPSRC Funding opportunity: Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials

EPSRC are inviting research proposals from consortia across the Engineering and Physical Sciences communities to address the manufacturing research challenges in developing applications,...
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By Stella Job 18/02/14 167 Views

NPL Industrial Advisory Group for Composites, Adhesives and Polymers, 12 March

The next NPL  Industrial Advisory Group (IAG) will focus on Composites, Adhesives and Polymeric Materials (CAP) and will be held on Wednesday 12 March 2014 at NPL.   IAGs...
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By Stella Job 18/02/14 167 Views

Latest X-ray technology at University of Southampton used to examine 17th century ship pump

Where materials science and archaeology meet. Engineers from the University of Southampton are working with the archaeological charity Seadive to ‘virtually’ examine the mechanism of a chain...
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By Stella Job 13/02/14 308 Views

Defects targeted in ceramics industry event

An event  organised by the British Ceramic Confederation and the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) will be championing ways manufacturers can reduce defects – and consequentially...
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By Rob Mills 10/02/14 334 Views

Ecobuild: meet buyers and UKTI market experts

In association with, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), Ecobuild is giving the opportunity to meet with UKTI’s market experts and key buyers from across the globe. UKTI will be...
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By Stella Job 03/02/14 315 Views

£10 million boost for SME energy innovation

British entrepreneurs are set to benefit from a share of £10million to help bring new and innovative energy efficient products to market, the Minister of Energy and Climate Change Greg Barker...
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By Stella Job 30/01/14 439 Views

Free POD spaces available for UK exemplars in Hall 9 - Research & Innovation zone

UK Trade and Investment and the ICT KTN is pleased to announce their latest programme to engage UK Research and Innovation organisations to showcase UK technology & innovation at CeBIT. ...
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By Rob Mills 24/01/14 443 Views

Bolster your business and view the UK's finest research

It’s rare that the opportunity arises to see the very best UK materials research all in one place – and even rarer for such an opportunity to be free. But we are offering just this with our...
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By Rob Mills 17/01/14 641 Views

New TSB funding competition: Make it lighter, with less

This new funding competition is an excellent opportunity for out members to present proposals for cost-effective, resource efficient lightweighting solutions.   The Technology...
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By Stella Job 16/01/14 642 Views

The sad case of the self-destructive silicene

Silicene – a one-atom-thick layer of silicon – is tipped to be graphene’s main contender. But recent research has shown that producing it may be far trickier than initially thought. A...
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By Rob Mills 16/01/14 720 Views

Power and disorder – improving cathodes unconventionally

Disordered materials – those that deviate from an ideal, ordered structure – have typically been considered unsuitable for use in batteries due to the assumption that such deviations hinder...
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By Rob Mills 14/01/14 426 Views

Armourers & Brasiers Materials Science Venture Prize – applications open

The application period is now open for the 2014 Armourers & Brasiers Materials Science Venture Prize. The prize is worth £25,000 in the form of an investment and is awarded to take forward...
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By Rob Mills 10/01/14 653 Views

University of Sheffield works with local company in low cost titanium 3D printing

To date, the 3D printing revolution has focused on the use of plastics – cheap printers' feedstock and high throughput. Until now 3D printing with metal has been prohibitively expensive because...
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By Stella Job 08/01/14 671 Views

Developing the Civil Nuclear Power Supply Chain

In a newly announced competition, the Technology Strategy Board, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) are partnering to invest up...
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By Rob Mills 06/01/14 529 Views

How your Christmas tree inspires cheap, super-strong materials of the future

Nature is always inspiring scientists and designers. Beyond just beauty and form, evolution provides us with structures that can be incredibly efficient. The Christmas tree you have in your...
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By Rob Mills 20/12/13 662 Views

Showcasing the UK’s finest materials research

The 2014 Materials Research Exchange will feature a huge exhibition displaying outstanding materials research from the UK’s finest universities and research organisations. A panel of eminent...
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By Rob Mills 19/12/13 1290 Views
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Wed 12 Mar 2014

Scattering Matters

10:00 until 16:00

Materials Analysis Using UK’s Large Scale Science Facilities Well known and standard techniques for materials analysis often result in giving only a small piece of the bigger picture and...

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Thu 13 Mar 2014

HiPerNano 6th Annual Conference and Exhibition

All Day

Now in its sixth year, the HiPerNano (High Performance Nano-engineering) Conference and Exhibition is a forum for bringing together nanotechnology solution developers and end-users with engineering...

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Thu 13 Mar 2014

Career opportunities for women in the high tech sectors, Southampton

09:15 until 13:00

The KTNs are concerned at their members’ needs to recruit qualified individuals to support and develop innovation activity, whilst there is a pool of talented, qualified and highly-skilled people...

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