News

News stories

Heartspace

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

Outstanding results highlight the School’s strength across its subject areas
Deep borehole facilities

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.
Photo of a student and their conference poster

From the lab to a national conference - "Watts Next?" for undergraduate student Melisha.

Undergraduate student, Melisha, presented her project at SSRC 2024: Watts Next? The future of anode materials for Na-Ion batteries Influence of Ti valence states and its electrochemical performance in Na2Ti3O7 as Na-ion batteries anode.
Profile photo of Dr John Beech

Dr John Beech obituary

It is with great sadness that the University of Sheffield’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering announces the death of Dr John Beech, who passed away on 4 November 2023.

Flue2chem site photo

Products Made from CO2 Emissions Initiative Begins

Science sector collaboration achieves major milestone in project towards net-zero manufacture of household products.

Students in Engineering Heartspace

University of Sheffield to train next generation of engineers, key to UK growth

Engineers with high quality skills in digital manufacturing- key to boosting UK productivity- are set to be trained by the University of Sheffield. Materials Science and Engineering at Sheffield will be partnering in the Mats4.0 and Fusion Power CDTs
The glass heartspace building

University of Sheffield to train next generation of engineers, key to UK growth

Engineers with high quality skills in digital manufacturing - key to boosting UK productivity - are set to be trained by the University of Sheffield. The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is partnering in two of the new CDTs.