Date: Thursday 25th January 2024

Format: Online

An online workshop introducing critical mineral mining, material carbon cost considerations and Circular Economy with opportunities for connecting advanced material researchers across the full chain of material/technology design from source to functional structure/application and beyond (reuse and recycling options) for a whole systems design approach to sustainable technology. An in-person collaboration event to follow-up on this workshop is planned for later in the year depending on success of this event and subsequent interest.

Workshop Content

The programme from the event is below with shareable versions of the slides available to download through the links for some of the talks.

Xiaoyu Yan (University of Exeter) – “Life cycle assessment – a crucial tool for informing sustainable technologies”

Kathryn Moore (University of Exeter) – “Mining of primary raw materials as the critical foundation of ‘sustainable’ metals: a wicked problem for technology innovation clusters”

Sahin Alacacayir (Minviro) – “Life Cycle Assessment for a Resilient Material Supply Chains”

Siddharth Patwardhan (University of Sheffield) – “An integrated approach to sustainable nanomaterials innovation”

Han Zhang (Queen Mary University of London) – “Sustainable materials and manufacturing from energy efficient manufacturing to multifunctional composites”