Pint of Science + SFM2018

Monday the 14th is when the FMD group is at Pint of Science. Taking place at the Hallamshire House in Sheffield, under the theme of "Atoms to Glaxaies: We have and energy crisis!", Dr Chris Handley will be giving a presentation on the important role of chemical simulation in materials discovery and design.






This event, along with others, is open to the public, but tickets are running out fast.

Not only will Chris be giving a presentation, but he along with a team of PhD students, will be giving some hands on demonstrations on the topic of crystal structure, simulation, and material design.

Following on from the success of the inaugural SFM conference held in April 2016 in Scarborough, the second edition of the biennial Sustainable Functional Materials conference will continue to focus on the issues around maintaining an environmentally friendly, sustainable and economically viable functional materials and device industry.

Topics will include: 

• piezoelectrics
• thermoelectrics 
• energy harvesting 
• functional properties and characterisation 
• devices 
• sustainability and risk 
• scale-up of processing and manufacturing techniques. 

SFM2018 is co-chaired by Robert Dorey at the University of Surrey and Ian Reaney at the University of Sheffield. The conference will be of interest both to industrialists and to academic researchers aiming to gain an understanding of the materials substitution and sustainability issues likely to become critical over the next decade for the functional materials and devices industry.

Invited speakers include University of Sheffield FMD member, Dr Rebecca Boston, who will be presenting her research on bio-templating for low energy materials synthesis.