Materials strategy for UK needs chemistry to succeed and create new industries

Chemistry and the chemical sector will be ‘absolutely critical’ to driving the UK’s materials industry and meeting major challenges such as net zero and a circular economy, as outlined in a new national materials innovation strategy. Speaking at the launch of the strategy, David Knowles, chief executive of the UK’s advanced materials centre the Henry Royce Institute which oversaw the work, said that it presents a ‘vision for an economy that’s transformed by materials innovation’.