• Windfarm
    Windfarm
  • Electrospun fibres manufactured from waste material for use in redox flow batteries
    Electrospun fibres manufactured from waste material for use in redox flow batteries
  • Drops of water on superhydrophobic anti-biofouling and self-cleaning materials
    Drops of water on superhydrophobic anti-biofouling and self-cleaning materials
  • Energy Materials Deevelopment and Characterisation
    Energy Materials Deevelopment and Characterisation
  • Simulation of an ultraviolet photochemical reactor for water treatment
    Simulation of an ultraviolet photochemical reactor for water treatment
  • Schematic of novel electromagnetic interference shielding
    Schematic of novel electromagnetic interference shielding
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Welcome to The Centre for Sustainable Engineering

Welcome to the Centre for Sustainable Engineering. We are Engineers and Scientists from a range of disciplines who work together to reduce the negative impacts of human society on our planet. This covers a range of research from next generation batteries, LEDs and chemical processes, to generating electricity from waste heat, sunlight and nuclear sources. We develop more efficient heating and cooling systems and low loss materials for electronics as well as lightweight materials to reduce fuel consumption of vehicles. We bring knowledge from materials science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, physics and chemistry to solve these problems. 

Our work covers major themes including Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Materials and Manufacture, Environment and Climate Change, and Sustainable Transport (the latter in partnership with colleagues in the Centre for Intelligent Transport).

We work from modelling to materials and device manufacture through to testing. We measure the outputs of current technologies to drive the development of the next generation including life cycle analysis. 

Our research is funded from a variety of sources including the UK Research Councils, The Royal Society, Innovate UK, The European Union, UK and International Industry.

News

Recent Publications

  • Tunable and anomalous electrocaloric behaviors in Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-based relaxor enabled by dynamics of polar nanoregions
    Li F, Wang X, Long M, Tan DQ, Shan L, Wang C and Yan H
    Acta Materialia, Elsevier vol. 293 
    01-07-2025
  • Effect of boron nitride on the pyroresistive properties of smart conductive polymer composites: eliminating the negative temperature coefficient effect
    Wang Y, Das B, Thorn TDS, Liu Y, Papageorgiou DG, Bilotti E and Zhang H
    Composites Science and Technology, Elsevier vol. 267 
    01-07-2025
  • Programming the energy landscape of 3D-printed Kresling origami via crease geometry and viscosity
    Mora S, Pugno NM and Misseroni D
    Extreme Mechanics Letters, Elsevier vol. 77 
    01-06-2025

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Recent Grants

  • (EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship) Direct Preparation of Sustainable Li-S Batteries by Electrospinning Inverse-vulcanized Biocopolymers: Michael Thielke
    Ana Sobrido
    £476,753 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-07-2025 - 30-06-2028
  • KTP Archipelago 10144476
    Radomir Slavchov and Ahmed Ismail
    £265,973 Innovate UK
    01-06-2025 - 30-11-2027
  • Sustainable Separation Membranes for Green Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - SusSep
    Andrew Livingston and Ludmila Peeva
    £931,967 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-05-2025 - 30-04-2028

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