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Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering achieve top-five places in Guardian rankings 2027

Outstanding results highlight the School’s strength across its subject areas
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Dr Karl Travis joins the Independent Advisory Committee for the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center (DBDC)

The Deep Borehole Demonstration Center has added three experts to its Independent Advisory Committee. Dr Karl Travis joins Emeritus Professor Neil Chapman, who is Chair of the committee.

Mockup of Xerode’s dry electrode printing system
Mockup of Xerode’s dry electrode printing system, capable of continuous roll-to-roll manufacture.

Spinout spotlight: Xerode

Xerode, a spinout from the University of Sheffield’s School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering, is developing a solvent-free, dry digital printing process for coating battery electrodes.

Two DNA double helices locking together

Decades-old DNA mystery solved after strands are captured zipping together for the first time

Researchers have captured the moment two DNA molecules zip together, overcoming their identical negative charges to pair up, solving a mechanism that has puzzled scientists for more than 20 years.
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Towards a green hydrogen roadmap for the UK

Prof. Rachael Rothman and Prof. Joan Cordiner have contributed to a new report which aims to help policymakers ensure that green hydrogen can fulfil its potentially crucial role in a future low-carbon energy system.

| The Royal Society
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Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery

The key to curing male pattern baldness - a condition that affects up to 50 per cent of men worldwide - could lie in a sugar that naturally occurs in the human body, according to scientists at the University of Sheffield.
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Our courses are ranked among the top in the Russell Group in the National Student Survey 

Our undergraduate degree programmes have all been ranked highly within the Russell Group across the seven different themes in the latest National Student Survey (NSS) being in the top 10 across all of them.
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Industry visits offer Pharmaceutical Engineering students invaluable learning experience

Students in the Pharmaceutical Engineering MSc program have been granted beneficial industry insights through organised visits to AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Almac.

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The I0M3 Bessemer Gold Medal has been awarded to Professor Mark Rainforth

Professor Mark Rainforth has been awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal. The medal is The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining most historic Premier Award, and the premier international award for outstanding services to the steel industry.