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Maxwell Centre Annual Research Showcase

The Maxwell Centre was launched in April 2016, as a centrepiece for industry engagement across Physical Sciences and Technology at the University of Cambridge. The first Annual Research Showcase event took place on 17 March 2017 to celebrate the breadth and quality of Cambridge research in the context of external...

£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. The new funding is part of a £128million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)...

£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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Maxwell Centre Annual Research Showcase

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

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

Professor Alison Smith featured on BBC's The Life Scientific

Keeping the lights on in Ghana

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

Platform on International Energy Governance

Graphene's sleeping superconductivity awakens

What makes a sand dune sing?

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