News

2025

• Researchers Cook Up a Green Recipe for Recycling Lithium-ion Batteries Using Vegetable Oil

2024

• Researchers Present at RSC Dense Ionic Fluids Faraday Discussions

• ChemComm Paper Featured in 60th Anniversary Historic Papers Collection

• Met4Tech Final Project Meeting Celebrates Four Years of Achievements 

• Prof. Karl Ryder Wins Gold Institute of Metal Finishing Award

• The ReLIB Project Wins RSC Horizon Prize

2023

• Dr Jake Yang joins the group

2022

• Faraday Summer Interns Awarded with 'Best Poster' Prizes

• "Metal Heads" at the British Science Festival

• Researchers Find Alternative Way to Extract High Purity Silver From Used Solar Panels

• New Paper on Metal Recovery from Solar Cells

• Visualising Fingermarks with a Physical Developer Technique

• Materials Centre at the 28th EUCHEM Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids in Greece

• Materials Centre at CONEXS 2022 in Newcastle

2021

• Materials Centre Awarded New EPSRC Grant for SonoCat Project

• AMAPOLA Paper Features on the Cover of ChemComm

• Solving Critical Challenges in the Recovery of Electric Vehicle Battery Materials

• Materials Researchers Reflect on Postgraduate Internships

• Policy Commission Review

2020

• PhD Student Has Review Published in Green Chemistry

• Faraday Institution Summer Fellowship

• New Research Ventures at the Materials Centre

• Prof. Hillman Collaborates on Knife Research Paper

• The University of Leicester to take part in ERA-2 Initiative

• Prof. Ryder and the Materials Group awarded European Commission H2020 research grant