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Materials Performance Centre

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loading a steel specimen into the Protochips Select In Situ holder for a liquid cell experiment

Establishing excellence in materials research

The Materials Performance Centre is the largest of its kind in the UK, performing research fundamental to the nuclear industry.

Explore the MPC

Close up of an in-situ micro-tensile test being performed during stress measurement in the Proto iXRD

About the centre

The Materials Performance Centre works with a variety of academic staff and commercial partners.
Dr Elisabeth Francis and Thomas Woodward examine a low alloy steel specimen in the analytical transmission electron microscope

Our people

Meet the academics from the Department of Materials who make up the MPC.
Felicity Baxter performing stress measurements by XRD using the Proto iXRD system with an in-situ stress rig

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Keep updated with the MPC, the largest nuclear materials research centre in UK academia.