This area focusses on developing a range of advanced materials critical to improving the efficiency of energy generation, energy conversion, energy distribution, and energy storage processes. This includes electronic materials that can be used and to develop efficient next-generation devices with lower energy consumption. Examples include materials for solid-state batteries and redox flow energy storage technologies, spintronic materials for reducing power consumption in computing, and new materials and devices able to harness energy from the environment based on thermoelectrics and calorics.
Some key centres and initiatives include:
- Faraday Institute
- Royce Institute
- Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
- Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES)
- Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology (C4T)
- CARES
Spin-outs:
- Cambridge GaN Devices energy-efficient GaN-based power devices
- Paragraf graphene electronic devices
- nu Quantum high-performance quantum networks
- Porotech full colour microLED displays
- KUBOS Semiconductors to produce efficient, high brightness, full-colour microLED displays
Researchers working in this area:
| Prof Emilio Artacho | Professor of Theoretical Mineral Physics |
| Prof Mete Atature | Professor of Physics |
| Prof Tom Bennett | Professor of Materials Chemistry |
| Prof Daping Chu | Nanjing Professor of Technology and Innovation |
| Dr Chiara Ciccarelli | Harding University Lecturer |
| Prof Jacqui Cole | Royal Academy of Engineering Research Professorship in Materials Physics |
| Prof Russell Cowburn | Professor of Experimental Physics |
| Prof Judith Driscoll | Professor of Materials Science |
| Prof Caterina Ducati | Professor of Nanomaterials |
| Prof John Durrell | Professor of Superconducting Engineering |
| Prof Jonathan Cullen |
Professor of Sustainable Engineering Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Prof Erika Eiser | Professor in Soft Matter Physics |
| Prof James Elliott |
Professor of Macromolecular Materials Science |
| Prof Stephen Elliott |
Professor of of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry |
| Dr Tijmen Euser | University Associate Professor |
| Prof Rachel Evans |
Professor of Materials Chemistry |
| Prof David Fairen-Jimenez |
Professor in Molecular Engineering |
| Prof Andrea Ferrari |
Professor of Nanotechnology |
| Prof Chris Ford |
Professor in Quantum Electronics |
| Prof Lindsay Greer | Professor of Materials Science |
| Prof Malte Grosche | Professor of Condensed Matter Physics |
| Prof Tawfique Hasan | Professor of NanoEngineering |
| Prof Stephan Hofmann | Professor of Nanotechnology |
| Prof Stephan Hofmann | Professor of Nanotechnology |
| Dr Ian Jacobs | Royal Society University Research Fellow |
| Prof Stephen Jenkins | Professor of Physical & Computational Surface Chemistry |
| Prof Hannah Joyce | Professor of Electronic and Photonic Engineering |
| Prof Sohini Kar-Narayan | Professor of Device & Energy Materials |
| Prof Markus Kraft | Professor of Chemical Engineering |
| Prof Neil Mathur | Professor of Materials Physics |
| Prof Paul Midgley | Professor of Materials Science |
| Prof Bartomeu Monserrat | Professor of Materials Physics |
| Dr Xavier Moya | Assistant Professor of Thermal Materials |
| Prof Rachel Oliver | Professor of Materials Science |
| Prof Mike Payne | Professor of Computational Physics |
| Prof Richard Penty | Professor of Photonics |
| Prof Chris Pickard | Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science |
| Prof Jason Robinson | Professor of Materials Physics |
| Dr Siddharth Shanker Saxena | Principal Research Associate |
| Prof Oren Scherman | Professor of Supramolecular & Polymer Chemistry |
| Prof Suchitra Sebastian | Professor of Physics |
| Prof Ashwin Seshia | Professor in Microsystems Technology |
| Prof Henning Sirringhaus | Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics |
| Prof Michiel Sprik | Professor of Chemistry |
| Prof Florin Udrea | Professor of Semiconductor Engineering |
| Prof Silvia Vignolini | Professor of Chemistry and Bio-materials |
| Prof David Wales | Professor of Chemical Physics |
| Prof Mark Welland | Director of Research |
| Prof Andrew Wheatley | Professor of Materials Chemistry |
| Prof Tim Wilkinson | Professor of Photonic Engineering |
| Prof Dominic Wright | Professor of Inorganic Chemistry |