Recordings now available
About the series
This page has recordings from our events in June and July 2025. Click here to register for our autumn series of Materials and Manufacturing Show & Tell events, starting in October 2025.
Innovate UK’s Materials and Manufacturing Vision 2050 details the opportunities that lie ahead of the UK Materials and Manufacturing sectors as we strive for a net zero future. However, the technological breakthroughs of tomorrow are not possible without the research we pursue today.
The Materials and Manufacturing Show and Tell series aims to increase the reach of innovative research born out of UK universities. Our academics are world leaders in terms of the quality and impact of the research they produce, and the scale up of their novel ideas play a vital role in boosting the UK economy and ensuring a more resilient, secure, and sustainable future.
Click on the dates below to see individual video links, or watch them all in the embedded showcase above.
Show and Tell sessions
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From post-consumer plastic bottles to valuable and sustainable self-reinforced PET composites
Dr Terry McGrail, Visiting Professor, School of Engineering, Universities of Edinburgh and Sheffield
Advances in ultra-high temperature ceramic matrix composites
Professor Jon Binner, CEng, FIMMM, FECerS, FACerS, FAmpere, Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham
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Use of Enzymes to Reduce Plastic Waste
Dr Victoria Bemmer, Senior Research Fellow and Industrial Engagement Lead, Centre of Enzyme Innovation, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Portsmouth
Policy Action to Reduce Plastic Pollution
Professor Steve Fletcher, Director of the University of Portsmouth Revolution Plastics Institute, NERC Agenda Setting Fellow for Plastic Pollution
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Making paints without petrochemicals
Professor Justin Perry, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University
Fibre Spreading and the Production of Composite
Professor Gerard Fernando, Sensors and Composites Group, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham
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3D printing: From the Lab to the Industry
Professor Moataz Attallah BSc, MSc, PhD, AHEA; Professor of Advanced Materials Processing and Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer, School of Metallurgy & Materials, University of Birmingham
Leveraging Neuro-Symbolic AI in Digital Manufacturing and Construction
Dr Lavindra de Silva, Research Professor and Director, Digital Roads of the Future Initiative, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
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Colorolicious: Bioinspired Structural Colours for Edible Innovation
Dr. Ahu Gumrah Parry, Lecturer in Bioinspired Soft Matter, School of Materials, University of Manchester
Induction processing for sustainable manufacture of composites: challenges, solutions, technology
Dmitry S. Ivanov, Associate Professor in Composites Manufacturing, Theme Lead in Manufacturing and Design at Bristol Composites Institute, Research Co-director (Manufacturing) of EPSRC CDT in Innovation for Sustainable Composites Engineering, Bristol Composites Institute, School of Civil, Aerospace, and Design Engineering, University of Bristol
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Advances in Structural Energy Storage and the Aspiration for Massless Energy
Professor Emile Greenhalgh, Professor of Composite Materials, Imperial College London, and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies
Fibre Composites Under Compression: Opportunities from the NextCOMP Project
Professor Milo Shaffer, Professor of Materials Chemistry, Imperial College London
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Design of collagen-based textile fibres for advanced wound care
Professor Giuseppe Tronci, Professor of Healthcare Materials, University of Leeds
E-textile based wearable electrotherapy for knee joint pain management
Professor Kai Yang, Professor of E-textiles in Healthcare, University of Southampton
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Screen-printing science to enhance the performance of printed electronics
Dr Sarah-Jane Potts CEng, MIMechE, MIMMM, FHEA, Lecturer in Engineering Sustainability, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Swansea University
Role of printable perovskites in translating UK solar innovation into manufacturing
Professor Trystan Watson, Head of Department, Materials Science and Engineering, Swansea University
Watch our recordings and learn about the incredible innovation taking place within our research institutions, where we can work to enable collaborations and partnerships between academic research and the commercial world.
Please use this form to register your interest in taking part in Innovate UK Business Connect’s Materials and Manufacturing Show and Tell series. These take place every Wednesday from 12pm – 1pm and will restart on Wednesday 1st October. We invite you to give a 15 minute presentation, after which there will be 10 minutes of Q&A. We are looking to showcase recent research, with the aim of identifying collaborations that can lead to scale up and commercialisation.
Accessibility and Inclusion
We are committed to ensuring our events are accessible for all.
If you experience any barriers to registering, for any reason, please contact us by email: enquiries@iukbc.org.uk or phone: +44 03333 403250 and we will support your registration.