Advanced materials: highlight notice
Research grants for critical-minerals materials and in-situ materials measurement.
EPSRC is seeking to support applications through its standard research grant scheme for advanced materials solutions for critical minerals, and in-situ and in operando materials metrology and characterisation.
Advanced materials solutions for critical minerals can cover novel advanced materials that reduce or replace the need for critical minerals in existing systems, or approaches to working wit…
The notice covers advanced materials solutions for critical minerals and in-situ and in operando materials metrology and characterisation. Applications that purely focus on material extraction, recovery or recycling techniques are out of scope.
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