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Funding boost for infrastructure research at Cambridge

Two new funding initiatives at the University of Cambridge will support the UK’s infrastructure and cities. Research at the University of Cambridge to support the UK’s infrastructure and cities has received further backing in the form of two major funding initiatives. The Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (...

Hong Kong University-University of Cambridge Clean Energy and Environment Research Platform

A launch ceremony of the Hong Kong University-University of Cambridge Clean Energy and Environment Research Platform was held on 10 Nov at the University of Hong Kong. This is a new initiative to consolidate collaborations between HKU and Energy@Cambridge researchers with a specific interest in energy research and energy...

Mirage maker

Connecting many researchers, chemists, physicists and engineers, the APEX project is an ambitious Anglo-Indian initiative to turn fundamental advances in solar materials into commercial reality. APEX involves research institutes in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kanpur and Pune in India, and Brunel (which leads the...

Graphene means business – 2D material moves from the lab to the UK factory floor

More than 40 companies, mostly from the UK, demonstrated some of the new products being developed from graphene and other two-dimensional materials at the Cambridge Graphene Technology Day last week. Graphene is a two-dimensional material made up of sheets of carbon atoms. With its combination of exceptional electrical...

Andy Brown presents 2015 Shell lecture at University of Cambridge

On 29 October Andy Brown, Director Upstream International, Shell, together with a delegation visited the University of Cambridge. Shell met with Shell funded PhD students who presented their research in five minutes. The session was chaired by Dr Dan Credgington, an Energy@Cambridge Energy Champion in the Department of...

New partnerships for ‘low carbon cities’ in the UK and China

Researchers from UK and Chinese universities, including the University of Cambridge, are collaborating on four new projects to work towards achieving low carbon cities in the UK and China. The projects were announced as Chinese President, Xi Jinping visited the UK. The projects will receive over £3 million in funding from...

New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery

Researchers have successfully demonstrated how several of the problems impeding the practical development of the so-called ‘ultimate’ battery could be overcome. Scientists have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has very high energy density, is more than 90% efficient, and, to...

Entanglement at heart of 'two-for-one' fission in next-generation solar cells

The mechanism behind a process known as singlet fission, which could drive the development of highly efficient solar cells, has been directly observed by researchers for the first time. Researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used ultrafast laser pulses to observe how a single particle of light, or photon, can be...

Professor Robert Mair appointed to House of Lords

Professor Robert Mair CBE, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and member of Energy@Cambridge at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed an independent crossbench peer in recognition of his world-renowned role as a civil engineer, and his extensive practical...

Bacteria in the world’s oceans produce millions of tonnes of hydrocarbons each year

Scientists have calculated that millions of tonnes of hydrocarbons are produced annually by photosynthetic bacteria in the world’s oceans. An international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, has estimated the amount of hydrocarbons – the primary ingredient in crude oil – that are produced by a massive...