Using our expertise and capabilities in data analytics, machine learning, modelling and simulation, we work with industry to accelerate materials discovery, optimise product performance and provide insight into chemical characteristics.
Home & Personal Care
Home & Personal Care
From rheology to formulation stability, our capabilities have accelerated R&D for more sustainable home and personal care products.
Energy & Transport
Energy & Transport
From materials for hydrogen storage and solar cells to nuclear fusion resistant materials and fuel lubricants, we can help design higher performance materials and formulations.
Foundation Industries
Foundation Industries
From polymers to glasses, alloys to ceramics, we can help foundation industries discover and optimise new coatings, materials, and formulations.
Food & Agritech
Food & Agritech
From improving agrichemical performance to modelling the chemistries of confectioneries, our techniques can help the food and agritech industries improve product design.
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical
With our biomolecular modelling and data analytics capabilities, we can provide insight into biological pathways, develop proxies for natural materials and design novel drug delivery to help the pharmaceutical and life-sciences sectors.
Functional Materials
Functional Materials
We help develop materials ranging from thermoelectrics to lightweight carbon-based materials and composites, as well as 2D crystals, to serve specific functions across sectors like energy, aerospace and optoelectronics.
HPC acceleration of valve design for hydrogen and carbon capture
STFC Hartree Centre worked with Oliver Hydcovalves as a part of the EDRF-funded CW4.0 programme to develop a tool capable of calculating stresses within valves for carbon capture.
Funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Commercial Pump Priming Fund, the Hartree Centre developed Hartree-MaDE, a new computational tool for materials discovery
Remote monitoring systems for electric vehicle technology
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Hartree Centre worked with local SME, Faraday Battery as part of the ERDF-funded CW4.0 programme using data science and AI techniques for remote predictive maintenance of batteries in electric vehicles.
Application of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics to the Resonant Acoustic Mixing of Complex, Highly Filled Composites
Lewtas Science & Technologies are improving the safety and speed of mixing energetic materials together with the help of computational models, through support from the Hartree Centre and STFC’s Bridging for Innovators programme.
Accelerating the development of unique materials using computer modelling
Funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Bridging for Innovators programme, the Hartree Centre worked with material specialists Lucideon to accelerate the development of novel ceramics.
Improving personal care products with advanced simulation
We’re working with Unilever, using advanced in-silico modelling capabilities to drive understanding into antimicrobial peptide interactions for future product development.
Recent publication unveils advances in precision drug delivery using synthetic virus-like particles
The Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre, IBM Research and the National Physical Laboratory collaborated to advance drug delivery methods by leveraging synthetic virus-like particles
