Materials Chemistry
Innovate UK Business Connect recognises that this sector is heavily reliant on laboratory-based R&D, as well as computational techniques for modelling the behaviour of atoms, molecules and colloids across multiple length and time scales.
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Innovate Business Connect can help organisations who apply chemistry, physics or engineering to perform R&D on materials (hard and soft) or who have technology that can be used in this way.
Common challenges include structure-function relationships, scale-up, product reformulation, long term aging behaviour and optimisation for performance and cost.
We can help anybody who applies chemistry, physics or engineering to perform R&D on materials (hard and soft), or has technology that can be used in this regard. Tech areas targeted: materials, chemistry, formulation, scale up, digitisation, formulated products.
We’ll help you connect you across the supply chains and research base in a wide variety of sectors, including FMCG, composites and coatings, construction materials, pharmaceuticals, energy storage, food and drink, plastics.
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National Materials Innovation Programme: Feasibility Studies
Opens: 03/11/2025 Closes: 17/12/2025
Up to £100k per project for advanced materials innovations in energy, healthcare, structure, durability, electronics, polymers, and metamaterials/metasurfaces.
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Battery Innovation Concept Development Round 1
Opens: 23/10/2025 Closes: 17/12/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for up to £4m per project for innovation in battery technologies for electrification. This funding is from The Battery Innovation Programme.
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Battery Innovation Feasibility Studies Round 1
Opens: 23/10/2025 Closes: 17/12/2025
UK registered businesses can apply for up to £500k per project for innovation in battery technologies for electrification. This funding is from The Battery Innovation Programme.
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Sustainable alternative raw materials to fossil derived hydrocarbons for the manufacture of speciality vacuum greases
Opens: 10/11/2025 Closes: 19/12/2025
The Innovation Exchange (iX) programme is supporting M&I Materials Ltd to find innovators who can provide alternative sustainable hydrocarbon feedstock sources suitable for the use in the manufacture of speciality vacuum greases.
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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: Antenna-boosting materials
Opens: 15/12/2025 Closes: 29/01/2026
Up to £60,000 each for tech to develop dielectric materials enabling ultrawideband antennas with frequency agility.
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Innovation Exchange challenge: Separation Technology to Remove Polymer Coating and Contaminants from Post-Consumer Leather
Opens: 12/11/2025 Closes: 02/01/2026
The challenge involves developing a separation technology to remove durable polymer layers from sheets of leather, leather pieces and leather fibres.
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