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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...

Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council funding

Four researchers at the University of Cambridge have won advanced grants from the European Research Council (ERC), Europe’s premier research funding body. One hundred and eighty-five senior scientists from across Europe were awarded grants in today’s announcement, representing a total of €450 million in research funding...

AI techniques used to improve battery health and safety

Researchers have designed a machine learning method that can predict battery health with 10x higher accuracy than current industry standard, which could aid in the development of safer and more reliable batteries for electric vehicles and consumer electronics. The novel method monitors way to monitor batteries by sending...

Electric cars better for climate in 95% of the world

Fears that electric cars could actually increase carbon emissions are unfounded in almost all parts of the world, new research shows. Reports have questioned whether electric cars really are ‘greener’ once emissions from production and generating their electricity are taken into account. But a new study by the universities...

New tools show a way forward for large-scale storage of renewable energy

A technique based on the principles of MRI and NMR has allowed researchers to observe not only how next-generation batteries for large-scale energy storage work, but also how they fail, which will assist in the development of strategies to extend battery lifetimes in support of the transition to a zero-carbon future. The...