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Read more at: Cambridge joins international partners in Singapore as country's flagship research programme celebrates 10th anniversary
Cambridge joins international partners in Singapore as country's flagship research programme celebrates 10th anniversary

Cambridge joins international partners in Singapore as country's flagship research programme celebrates 10th anniversary

Singapore’s Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE)was established in 2007, with funding from Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF), to allow research-intensive institutions from all over the world to set up research centres in Singapore. CREATE supports collaborations between four...


Read more at: Harnessing the power of algae: new, greener fuel cells move step closer to reality
Harnessing the power of algae: new, greener fuel cells move step closer to reality

Harnessing the power of algae: new, greener fuel cells move step closer to reality

A new design of algae-powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more cost-effective to produce and practical to use, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge. In recent years, in addition to synthetic photovoltaic devices...


Read more at: CAM-IES Symposium on Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics - 8 Nov 2017
CAM-IES Symposium on Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics - 8 Nov 2017

CAM-IES Symposium on Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics - 8 Nov 2017

The CAM-IES Symposium on Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics was held on 8 November at the Maxwell Centre with 85 attendees from academia and industry. The Symposium highlighted cutting-edge energy materials research, exploring what happens at the interfaces between the high-tech materials used to fabricate solar cells. It...


Read more at: Clean energy: experts outline how governments can successfully invest before it’s too late
Clean energy: experts outline how governments can successfully invest before it’s too late

Clean energy: experts outline how governments can successfully invest before it’s too late

Researchers distil twenty years of lessons from clean energy funding into six ‘guiding principles’. They argue that governments must eschew constant reinventions and grant scientists greater influence before our “window of opportunity” to avert climate change closes. In a recent Nature article, researchers from the...


Read more at: CAM-IES Symposium: Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics
CAM-IES Symposium: Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics

CAM-IES Symposium: Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics

The CAM-IES Symposium on Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics was held on 9 November at the Maxwell Centre with 85 attendees from academia and industry. The Symposium highlighted cutting-edge energy materials research, exploring what happens at the interfaces between the high-tech materials used to fabricate solar cells, and...


Read more at: Carbon capture: universities and industry work together to tackle emissions
Carbon capture: universities and industry work together to tackle emissions

Carbon capture: universities and industry work together to tackle emissions

It is understood that the world will not become carbon-free in the near future, developed and developing countries rely on fossil fuels for transport, industry and power, all of which release CO 2 into the atmosphere. As sea levels rise, ‘unprecedented’ weather events become commonplace and the polar ice caps melt, the...


Read more at: Carbon capture: universities and industry work together to tackle emissions
Carbon capture: universities and industry work together to tackle emissions

Carbon capture: universities and industry work together to tackle emissions

It is understood that the world will not become carbon-free in the near future, developed and developing countries rely on fossil fuels for transport, industry and power, all of which release CO 2 into the atmosphere. As sea levels rise, ‘unprecedented’ weather events become commonplace and the polar ice caps melt, the...


Read more at: Business Secretary announces founding partners of £65 million battery technology research institute
Business Secretary announces founding partners of £65 million battery technology research institute

Business Secretary announces founding partners of £65 million battery technology research institute

The Faraday Institution, a new, multi-million pound research institute was announced yesterday (Monday 02 October 2017), by Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. It will drive and accelerate fundamental research in developing battery technologies, and its translation. The Institution...


Read more at: CAM-IES Autumn Symposium
CAM-IES Autumn Symposium

CAM-IES Autumn Symposium

The EPSRC Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) invited PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to present their recent results at the CAM-IES Autumn Symposium, which was held at the Blizard Institute on the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) campus on 21 September 2017, and attended by...


Read more at: Defects in next-generation solar cells can be healed with light
Defects in next-generation solar cells can be healed with light

Defects in next-generation solar cells can be healed with light

Researchers have shown that defects in the molecular structure of perovskites – a material which could revolutionise the solar cell industry – can be “healed” by exposing it to light and just the right amount of humidity. The international team of researchers demonstrated in 2016 that defects in the crystalline structure...