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Non-toxic alternative for next-generation solar cells

Researchers have demonstrated how a non-toxic alternative to lead could form the basis of next-generation solar cells. The team of researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the United States, have used theoretical and experimental methods to show how bismuth – the so-called “green element” which sits next to lead...

Platform on International Energy Governance event ‘An Inclusive Energy Transition? Global low-carbon strategies and their discontents’

The Platform on International Energy Governance held its first annual event on 22 June 2017. Entitled ‘An Inclusive Energy Transition? Global low-carbon strategies and their discontents’, the event brought together over 40 leading and early career academics and practitioners to discuss how the costs and benefits of the...

CAM-IES Networking Symposium, Queen Mary University, 21 September 2017

CAM-IES held a networking symposium at Queen Mary University of London on 21 September 2017 for CAM-IES early career researchers, and members of the wider energy systems community. The symposium featured expert speakers from the fields of hybrid photovoltaics, energy harvesting, fuel cells, solid state batteries and flow...

CAM-IES at the International Flow Battery Forum

IFBF, the International Flow Battery Forum, was held on 27-29 June in Manchester. CAM-IES announced the first call for proposals for short projects on redox flow batteries at IFBF, to open in mid-July.

CAM-IES Cambridge Launch Event 11 May 2017

The CAM-IES launch was held at the Maxwell Centre in Cambridge on 11 May 2017. Academic investigators, researchers and industry partners met to discuss the Centre's six work packages and broader networking goals.

Materials for Life grow from strength to strength

Cambridge collaborative research into the development of self-healing cement-based materials for infrastructure has received a £4.85m funding boost from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Professor Abir Al-Tabbaa (Department of Engineering) said the newly funded Resilient Materials 4 Life (RM4L...

Scientists construct a stable one-dimensional metallic material

Researchers, from the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick, have developed the world’s thinnest metallic nanowire, which could be used to miniaturise many of the electronic components in use every day. The wire, made from a single string of tellurium atoms, is a true one-dimensional (1-D) material. These 1-D wires are...

Workshop on Faith, Energy and Society on 3 March 2017

The University of Cambridge’s Strategic Research Initiative for energy researchers, Energy@Cambridge, organised a workshop on Faith, Energy and Society, in partnership with The Faraday Institute, Woolf Institute, Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry (VHI) and the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (...

Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) launched in Cambridge

On the 11 May Energy@Cambridge organised the launch of the Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) at the Maxwell Centre in Cambridge which brought together the CAM-IES Co-Investigators and industry project partners, including CDT, Shell, Johnson Matthey, Deregallera, Eight19 and ARM. The CAM-...

Franco-British nuclear energy seminar hailed as a success

In collaboration with the Maison française d’Oxford, Energy@Cambridge at the University of Cambridge, and with EDF Energy’s support, the French Embassy’s Nuclear Department organized a Franco-British seminar in Oxford on 15 May devoted to the human, social and ethical dimensions of nuclear energy. The objective was to hand...