The Henry Royce Institute Advanced Material Science Research
The Henry Royce Institute (Royce) is the UK’s national institute for advanced materials research and innovation, with Cambridge as one of its key partner sites.
At the University of Cambridge, Royce operates as an open-access research and collaboration platform, providing advanced facilities for materials deposition, fabrication, and characterisation. These facilities are available to researchers from academia, industry, and SMEs, supporting both fundamental research and applied innovation.
Royce at Cambridge focuses on accelerating the development of advanced materials and enabling their translation into real-world technologies. Its work spans areas such as photonics, semiconductors, sensors, energy storage, and quantum technologies, combining engineering, chemistry, and data-driven approaches.
In addition to infrastructure, Royce supports innovation through funding schemes, SME access programmes, and industrial collaboration projects. It also actively contributes to commercialisation by sponsoring places on entrepreneurship programmes such as impulse and EnterpriseTECH, helping researchers develop their ideas beyond the lab.
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