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Read more at: £10m funding for advanced materials research awarded to the University of Cambridge
 £10m funding for advanced materials research awarded to the University of Cambridge

£10m funding for advanced materials research awarded to the University of Cambridge

Research into improving energy storage, reducing power consumption and developing new energy-efficient devices received a boost with the announcement of £10m funding for new equipment at the University of Cambridge. This funding will be vitally important in terms of enabling what we do with advanced materials to be...


Read more at: Professor Alison Smith featured on BBC's The Life Scientific
Professor Alison Smith featured on BBC's The Life Scientific

Professor Alison Smith featured on BBC's The Life Scientific

Alison Smith, Professor of Plant Biochemistry in the Department of Plant Sciences, whose research interests include algal synthetic biology, has been featured on the BBC's The Life Scientific. In her interview Alison Smith talks to Jim al-Khalili about the many varied uses of algae, as well as their often strange...


Read more at: Keeping the lights on in Ghana
Keeping the lights on in Ghana

Keeping the lights on in Ghana

Dr Abu Yaya (Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ghana) has been working closely with Dr Kevin Knowles (Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) on electroporcelain. Electroporcelain is a small but crucial component for power transmission, and Dr Yaya...


Read more at: First meeting on EPRSC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) held in Cambridge
First meeting on EPRSC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) held in Cambridge

First meeting on EPRSC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) held in Cambridge

On 26 January the first meeting on the EPSRC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) was held in Cambridge. The £2 Million EPSRC Networking Grant is a partnership between four UK universities, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen Mary and University College London and industry...


Read more at: First meeting on EPRSC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) held in Cambridge
First meeting on EPRSC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) held in Cambridge

First meeting on EPRSC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) held in Cambridge

On 26 January the first meeting on the EPSRC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) was held in Cambridge and chaired by Prof Clare Grey. The £2 Million EPSRC Networking Grant is a partnership between four UK universities, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen Mary and...


Read more at: Platform on International Energy Governance
Platform on International Energy Governance

Platform on International Energy Governance

The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, in collaboration with the In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy Grand Challenge and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, has created a Platform on International Energy Governance to foster the conduct of research in unexplored areas of...


Read more at: Graphene's sleeping superconductivity awakens
Graphene's sleeping superconductivity awakens

Graphene's sleeping superconductivity awakens

Since its discovery in 2004, scientists have believed that graphene may have the innate ability to superconduct. Now Cambridge researchers have found a way to activate that previously dormant potential. Researchers have found a way to trigger the innate, but previously hidden, ability of graphene to act as a superconductor...


Read more at: What makes a sand dune sing?
What makes a sand dune sing?

What makes a sand dune sing?

When solids flow like liquids they can make sand dunes sing, and they can also result in a potentially deadly avalanche. Cambridge researchers are studying the physics behind both of these phenomena, which could have applications in industries such as pharmaceuticals, oil and gas. As grains of sand slide down the side of...


Read more at: Andy Brown presents 2016 Shell lecture at University of Cambridge
Andy Brown presents 2016 Shell lecture at University of Cambridge

Andy Brown presents 2016 Shell lecture at University of Cambridge

On 3 November Andy Brown, Director Upstream International, Shell, together with a delegation visited the University of Cambridge. Energy@Cambridge organised for a number of Shell funded PhD students and early career researchers to present their research in five minutes. The session was chaired by Prof Lindsay Greer, Head...


Read more at: Next-generation smartphone battery inspired by the gut
Next-generation smartphone battery inspired by the gut

Next-generation smartphone battery inspired by the gut

A new prototype of a lithium-sulphur battery – which could have five times the energy density of a typical lithium-ion battery – overcomes one of the key hurdles preventing their commercial development by mimicking the structure of the cells which allow us to absorb nutrients. The new design, by researchers from the...