Welcome to The Centre for Sustainable Engineering
Welcome to the Centre for Sustainable Engineering. We are Engineers and Scientists from a range of disciplines who work together to reduce the negative impacts of human society on our planet. This covers a range of research from next generation batteries, LEDs and chemical processes, to generating electricity from waste heat, sunlight and nuclear sources. We develop more efficient heating and cooling systems and low loss materials for electronics as well as lightweight materials to reduce fuel consumption of vehicles. We bring knowledge from materials science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, physics and chemistry to solve these problems.
Our work covers major themes including Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Materials and Manufacture, Environment and Climate Change, and Sustainable Transport (the latter in partnership with colleagues in the Centre for Intelligent Transport).
We work from modelling to materials and device manufacture through to testing. We measure the outputs of current technologies to drive the development of the next generation including life cycle analysis.
Our research is funded from a variety of sources including the UK Research Councils, The Royal Society, Innovate UK, The European Union, UK and International Industry.
Recent Publications
- 2026 roadmap toward sustainable thermoelectrics
Bos J-WG Mohanty T Sparks TD Xie W Weidenkaff A Grasso S Zhang R Reece MJ et al.
Journal of Physics Energy, Iop Publishing vol. 8 (1)
25-02-2026 - Structural Origin of Morphotropic Phase Boundary in Advanced Perovskite Ferroelectric Oxides
Yue Y Qu F Viola G Han B Krynski M Honda T Zheng Q Hu Z et al.
Journal of The American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society (Acs)
13-02-2026 - Susceptible Antiferroelectric/Ferroelectric Transitions in Silver Niobate-Based Ceramics Induced by Manual Mechanical Processing
Tian Y Lu T Guo S Chen C She L Jin L Withers RL Wu Y et al.
Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 65 (6), 3215-3224.
04-02-2026
Recent Grants
- Copy of S&E Externally Funded PhD, Commercial, 2025/26, Non-Lab, Band C, 4 Year: Mitigation of radical chain reactions in CO2 streams by neutralizing NO2 via methanol and ammonia
Radomir Slavchov
£42,000 TWI LIMITED
01-04-2026 - 31-03-2030 - S&E Externally Funded PhD, Commercial, 2025/26, Non-Lab, Band C, 4 Year: Mitigation of radical chain reactions in CO2 streams by neutralizing NO2 via methanol and ammonia
Radomir Slavchov
£73,535 SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
01-04-2026 - 31-03-2030 - Solving PV circular economy challenge: energy-efficient flash joule heating for solar panel recycling
Salvatore Grasso, Zhe Li, Ricardo Grau-Crespo and Isaac Abrahams
£1,049,407 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-04-2026 - 30-09-2029