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Some superconductors can also carry currents of ‘spin’

Researchers have shown that certain superconductors, materials that carry electrical current with zero resistance at very low temperatures, can also carry currents of ‘spin’. The successful combination of superconductivity and spin could lead to a revolution in high-performance computing, by dramatically reducing energy...

Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost

A simple potassium solution could boost the efficiency of next-generation solar cells, by enabling them to convert more sunlight into electricity. An international team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge found that the addition of potassium iodide ‘healed’ the defects and immobilised ion movement, which to...

Professor Clare Grey discusses the Big Battery Challenge on BBC Radio 4

Prof Clare Grey developed a new way of looking inside solids (using nuclear magnetic resonance), her interest in batteries was sparked by a man from Duracell who asked her a question at an academic conference, and charged up by some electrochemists she met playing squash. For the last twenty years she has sought to...

SMART ENERGY: Transatlantic Summit on the future of Smart Energy Networks

Delegates from the US and the UK came together this week at the Maxwell Centre in Cambridge to debate the future of the UK and US energy systems. The two-day ‘smart grid’ summit was organised by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Energy@Cambridge and Cambridge Cleantech. The summit brought together industry, government...

Cambridge to lead £11.9m research project to extend battery life for electric vehicles

The University of Cambridge is leading one of four government-funded projects into battery research, in order to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles and a low-carbon economy. The funding for the four projects, totalling up to £42 million, was announced this week by the Faraday Institution , the UK’s independent...

Cambridge and Berkeley team up in Singapore

Joint research programme will focus on how to convert carbon dioxide to useful chemicals A three-year programme will bring together researchers from the University of Cambridge, the University of California, Berkeley, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to develop ways of...

Cambridge joins international partners in Singapore as country's flagship research programme celebrates 10th anniversary

Singapore’s Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) was established in 2007, with funding from Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF), to allow research-intensive institutions from all over the world to set up research centres in Singapore. CREATE supports collaborations between four...

Cambridge joins international partners in Singapore as country's flagship research programme celebrates 10th anniversary

Singapore’s Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE)was established in 2007, with funding from Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF), to allow research-intensive institutions from all over the world to set up research centres in Singapore. CREATE supports collaborations between four...

Harnessing the power of algae: new, greener fuel cells move step closer to reality

A new design of algae-powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more cost-effective to produce and practical to use, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge. In recent years, in addition to synthetic photovoltaic devices...

CAM-IES Symposium on Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics - 8 Nov 2017

The CAM-IES Symposium on Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics was held on 8 November at the Maxwell Centre with 85 attendees from academia and industry. The Symposium highlighted cutting-edge energy materials research, exploring what happens at the interfaces between the high-tech materials used to fabricate solar cells. It...

Some superconductors can also carry currents of ‘spin’

Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost

Professor Clare Grey discusses the Big Battery Challenge on BBC Radio 4

SMART ENERGY: Transatlantic Summit on the future of Smart Energy Networks

Cambridge to lead £11.9m research project to extend battery life for electric vehicles

Cambridge and Berkeley team up in Singapore

Cambridge joins international partners in Singapore as country's flagship research programme celebrates 10th anniversary

Cambridge joins international partners in Singapore as country's flagship research programme celebrates 10th anniversary

Harnessing the power of algae: new, greener fuel cells move step closer to reality

CAM-IES Symposium on Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics - 8 Nov 2017

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