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School of Metallurgy and Materials research

Research areas and groups

  • Advanced Materials Processing

    Advanced Materials Processing in the School of Metallurgy and Materials research

  • Materials for Challenging Environments

    Driven by behaviours of materials' life cycles, we hold expertise in structural integrity, in-service degradation and evolution of material properties and microstructure across broad length scales.

  • Materials for Sustainability

    Materials for a Sustainable Future in metallurgy and materials

  • Multifunctional Materials and Devices

    We develop smart materials with wide ranging applications from consumer electronics to biomedical applications. Our expertise includes composites, functional ceramics, polymers and surface engineering

Facilities

Explore the work of our Characterisation Facility.

  • Characterisation Facility (CF)

    Our facility has a wide range of equipment, used for both teaching and research, for sample preparation and characterisation of materials.

  • Facility for Electron Microscopy (FEM)

    The Facility for Electron Microscopy provides expertise in operating electron microscopes and data interpretation. The Facility covers the whole materials and life sciences spectrum.

Explore our work

The School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham has a proven track record of securing funding and delivering high quality research projects for Industrial Partners and funding bodies including EPSRC and European Commission. At any one time we will have over 100 active research grants. A selection of these can be found below, along with links to project websites (where available).

Funded research projects

Project Title Project Funder(s) Lead Project Website

Smart by Design and Intelligent by Architecture for turbine blade fan and structural components systems

European Commission

Professor Hanshan Dong

 SMARTFAN

Next Generation Ceramic Composites for Combustion Harsh Environments and Space

European Commission

Professor Jon Binner

 C3HARME

Modified Cost Effective Fibre Based Structures with Improved Multi-Functionality and Performance

European Commission

Professor Hanshan Dong

 MODCOMP

NEOdymium-Iron-Boron base materials, fabrication techniques and recycling solutions to HIghly REduce the consumption of Rare Earths in Permanent Magnets for Wind Energy Application

European Commission

Professor Allan Walton

 NEOHIRE

Novel ALL-IN-ONE machines, robots and systems for affordable, worldwide and lifetime Distributed 3D hybrid manufacturing and repair operations

European Commission

Professor Moataz Attallah

 4D-HYBRID

Robotic Manipulation for Nuclear Sort and Segregation

European Commission

Professor Rustam Stolkin

 ROMANS

Development Of Ceramics 3D printing & Additive manufacturing

European Commission

Dr Artemis Stamboulis

 DOC-3D CERAM

National Centre for Nuclear Robotics

 EPSRC

Professor Rustam Stolkin

 NCNR

Critical Elements and Materials Network (CrEAM)

 EPSRC

Professor Allan Walton

In Development

Recycling of Lithium Ion Batteries (ReLib)

Faraday Fast-Start / EPSRC

Dr Paul Anderson

 ReLib
School of Metallurgy and Materials