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Ultralow power transistors that could function for years without a battery

A new design for transistors which operate on ‘scavenged’ energy from their environment could form the basis for devices which function for months or years without a battery, and could be used for wearable or implantable electronics. Using a similar principle to a computer in sleep mode, the new transistor harnesses a tiny...

EPSRC Networking Grant - The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES)

The University of Cambridge has secured a £2 Million EPSRC Networking Grant, through the support of Energy@Cambridge . The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) is a partnership between four UK universities, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen Mary and University College London and our industry...

Engineering a better world: CAETS conference 2016

Energy@Cambridge , supported by funding from the ESRC DTP as part of its programme of interdisciplinary activities, selected a number of University of Cambridge PhD students to attend the Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS)’s Engineering a Better World conference on 13 September 2016.This...

European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant awarded

Dr Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for her work on: A Cross-Correlated Approach to Engineering Nitride Nanowires. The grants are awarded under the 'excellent science' pillar of Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation programme. Read further...

£1.5m to Reduce Industrial Energy Demand in UK

The Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, along with Imperial College London, Brunel University and University of Birmingham, has been awarded an EPSRC funded project aimed at minimising primary-energy use in the UK industry. The four year multidisciplinary project, in collaboration...

MEMS vibration energy harvester research breaks new ground

New experimental research has observed up to 28 orders of parametric resonance, which has until now, only theoretically predicted. The research publication co-authored by CSIC Co-Investigator, Dr Ashwin Seshia, PhD student Sijun Du and former CSIC Research Associate Dr Yu Jia, experimentally confirmed up to 28 orders of...

Carbon dioxide can be stored underground for ten times the length needed to avoid climatic impact

Study of natural-occurring 100,000 year-old carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) reservoirs shows no significant corroding of ‘cap rock’, suggesting the greenhouse gas hasn’t leaked back out - one of the main concerns with greenhouse gas reduction proposal of carbon capture and storage. By studying a natural reservoir in Utah, USA...

Natural building materials for low-carbon city build

Concrete and steel are the primary materials used in constructing buildings, however, University of Cambridge researchers have shown an alternative more energy efficient materials can be used. Dr Michelle Oyen's (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) research in the field of biomimetics investigates...

"In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy" at Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy - Beijing

On 20th May, 2016, Professor Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, visited the centre for Energy and Environmental Policy - Beijing Institute of Technology (CEEP-BIT), China. Professor Pollitt presented on the topic “In Search of ’Good’ Energy Policy: why multi-disciplinary approaches to energy...

How does your smart city grow?

The Department of Engineering’s Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) is building on advances in sensing technology to learn everything possible about a city’s infrastructure. This includes tunnels, roads, bridges, sewers and power supplies, in order to maintain a city and optimise its use for the future...