The UK Materials Technology Research Institute (MatRI) is part of a not-for-profit Research & Technology Development Group employing 550 scientists and engineers, and containing nine individual institutes, each with a specific technological specialism and competence.

Our researchers cover the full breadth of scientific disciplines from applied mathematicians and physicists, to materials engineers, chemists, biologists and manufacturing process experts. We use our expertise to build scientific knowledge in the following areas:

• Synthesis and processing - to arrange the atoms and larger-scale components of a system into the desired configuration
• Composition and microstructure - to understand the roles they play in determining the behaviour of materials
• Phenomena and properties - to reveal underlying mechanisms
• Performance - to assess suitability for a given application
• Materials design and lifetime prediction by theoretical and computational methods

MatRI readily adopts the process of 'shared innovation', pooling knowledge and skills from research organisations and industrial organisations and consortia of industrial companies to achieve shared goals. In doing this we have developed numerous partnerships with clients, industry, academia, trade bodies, professional bodies and other research institutions.

As a constituted not-for-profit research organisation limited by guarantee, we also selectively choose to co-invest with industry to help build techno-economic feasibility studies and it is our policy to not hold intellectual property.