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Relative impact of materials: connecting business, policy & research to deliver solutions

5 February 2020 - University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) on behalf of the Cambridge Creative Circular Plastics Centre (CirPlas) , organised the Second Cambridge CirPlas Forum: Relative impact of materials: connecting business, policy and research to deliver solutions . The event explored and...

Henry Royce: Materials for the energy transition Executive Summary and Roadmap webinar

The UK has become the first major economy in the world to pass a net-zero emissions law, setting an ambitious target to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. The development and adoption of more energy-efficient materials is an important enabler for the UK to achieve this goal. In September 2019, the...

University of Cambridge academic promotions 2020

We are delighted to be able to share the recent news of the following promotions from 1 October 2020 for University of Cambridge academic staff and members of Energy Transitions@Cambridge: Professorship Nikos Nikiforakis , Department of Physics Nikos leads the Laboratory for Scientific Computing group. His research...

Plastic: the new fantastic?

University of Cambridge researchers are working towards eliminating plastic waste and making best use of one of the most successful materials ever invented. Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Plastic has become a malevolent...

Cambridge Creative Circular Plastics Centre on CAM FM

Listen to the latest podcast Cambridge Zero Climate Talks. Guests for the 22 May 2020 podcast include Professor Erwin Reisner [at 33.55mins], who works on artificial photosynthesis, solar fuels and PI of the Cambridge Creative Circular Plastics Centre (CirPlas) . Click here .

Green COVID-19 recovery packages can boost economic growth and tackle climate change

Researchers find long-term, climate-friendly stimulus policies are often superior in overall economic impact – not just in slowing global warming. An analysis of possible COVID-19 economic recovery packages shows the potential for strong alignment between the economy and the environment. The direction of these measures...

University spin-out Poro Technologies raises £1.5m for its semiconductor of the future technology

The University of Cambridge start-up Porotech is set to commercialise porous Gallim Nitride (GaN), which opens the door to high performance optoelectronic devices with unexpected properties. While silicon has been at heart of computer chips and microelectronics for decades, they are reaching the limit of performance, and...

Prof Manish Chhowalla awarded IOM3 2020 Prizes Griffith Medal & Prize

Congratulations to Professor Manish Chhowalla, Director of Henry Royce Energy-Efficient ICT-Cambridge and Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science (Dept of Materials Science and Metallurgy), who has been awarded the IOM3 Griffith Medal and Prize and shares the Charles Hatchett Award with the co-authors of the winning...

Li-Ion Battery Electrode manufacturing research at Cambridge secures €2m EU funding

Lithium-ion batteries last longer and recharge faster. Commonly used for mobile telephones, laptops and electric vehicles, the demand has been growing since the 1990s and manufacturers are constantly testing ways to improve these batteries with new chemical combinations. Dr Michael Volder ’s (Dept of Engineering) is...

Venture School - People, Plastics and our Planet: Venturing for Solutions

During the week of 2nd to 6th of March the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge hosted the third Venture School: ‘People, Plastics and Our Planet’. Participants from various Universities, CirPlas members, entrepreneurs and professionals joined a journey that set off with an analysis of the role of plastics in the...