Strategic partner: Rolls-Royce
16 December 2019Researchers at Cambridge are working with Rolls-Royce to make aeroengines greener.
Researchers at Cambridge are working with Rolls-Royce to make aeroengines greener.
The Periodic Table may not sound like a list of ingredients but, for a group of materials scientists, it’s the starting point for designing the perfect chemical make-up of tomorrow’s jet engines.
Rolls-Royce and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will work jointly with the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham and Swansea in a new £50 million strategic partnership.
Only a single class of engineering materials can withstand the extreme conditions deep within a jet aeroplane engine – the nickel-base superalloys.