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Prof Dame Ann Dowling awarded Royal Society Royal Medal

Three Royal Medals are awarded annually by the Sovereign on the recommendation of the Council of the Royal Society. Prof Dame Ann Dowling joins other leading Fellows, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and geneticist and cell biologist Sir Paul Nurse, who have previously received the award. Dame...

Royal Academy of Engineering Chair

Judith will become a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair. From 1 October 2019, Judith is pleased to announce that she will become a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Advanced Memory Materials.

New prize for graduate research in sustainable energy or energy efficiency

The Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge launched its new prize, the Helios Prize, for graduate research in sustainable energy or energy efficiency. The prize has been made possible thanks to a generous donation from Cambridge alumnus John Firth. The Prize is named after Helios, in relation to global...

Dr Alex Forse appointed to a lectureship in Materials Chemistry

Dr Alex Forse has been appointed to a lectureship in Materials Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry. Alex's group aims to understand and improve materials that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle the global warming crisis. Limiting global warming to 1.5 ºC requires the rapid development and deployment of a...

Cambridge Royce appoint the next Cambridge Royce Champion

The Henry Royce Institute and University of Cambridge is pleased to announce that Professor Manish Chhowalla has been appointed as the Academic Champion for the Royce facilities installed at the University ( Cambridge Royce ). Manish succeeds Professor Sir Richard Friend as Cambridge Royce Champion from 1st July 2019...

Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes

Wearable electronic components incorporated directly into fabrics have been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge. The devices could be used for flexible circuits, healthcare monitoring, energy conversion, and other applications. The Cambridge researchers, working in collaboration with colleagues at...

Green tech startups see boost in patents and investment partnering with government

Collaboration between government and startups could help meet the climate challenge while growing small businesses. Findings could inform discussions on Green New Deal or any “forward-looking policy package” say researchers. Latest research on hundreds of new green technology companies in the US shows the patenting...

Cambridge spin-out starts producing graphene at commercial scale

A recent University of Cambridge spin-out company, Paragraf, has started producing graphene – a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick – at up to eight inches (20cm) in diameter, large enough for commercial electronic devices. Paragraf is producing graphene ‘wafers’ and graphene-based electronic devices, which could...

First Forum Meeting of the Cambridge Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Eliminate Plastic Waste at the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge

On 14 th February 2019 Energy@Cambridge hosted the first Forum meeting of the new Cambridge Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Eliminate Plastic Waste at the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge. The Centre is one of eight new research projects funded through the Plastics and Research Innovation Fund managed by UK Research and...

What does it take to make a better battery?

Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green revolution. The key to making electronics portable – and powering a sea change in how we communicate and consume information – was the commercialisation of lithium-ion batteries by...