Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials

About the Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials

$150m invested over 10 years Our partners

Collaboration with six global partners Our partners

First grand challenge: sustainable copper extraction Our research

Redesigning materials for a circular economy Our research

Cross-disciplinary expertise across science and industry Our team here at Imperial

Shaping policy, standards and global supply chains Centre news

We are a global, transdisciplinary hub for radical research, innovation, thought leadership and next-generation education.

About us

Our centre unites researchers and industry experts from six global partners to drive innovation in future materials for energy.

Our partners

We are co-creating programmes of work around grand challenges that allow us to rethink how to discover, extract, use and reuse materials.

Our research

Find out more about Imperial's Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials collaborators