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Judith will become a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair.From 1 October 2019, Judith is pleased to announce that she will become a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Advanced Memory Materials.

The Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge launched its new prize, the Helios Prize, for graduate research in sustainable energy or energy efficiency. The prize has been made possible thanks to a generous donation from Cambridge alumnus John Firth.The Prize is named after Helios, in relation to global renewable energy fundamentally driv…

Dr Alex Forse has been appointed to a lectureship in Materials Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry. Alex's group aims to understand and improve materials that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle the global warming crisis. Limiting global warming to 1.5 ºC requires the rapid development and deployment of a range of greenhouse gas mit…

The Henry Royce Institute and University of Cambridge is pleased to announce that Professor Manish Chhowalla has been appointed as the Academic Champion for the Royce facilities installed at the University (Cambridge Royce). Manish succeeds Professor Sir Richard Friend as Cambridge Royce Champion  from 1st July 2019. Manish is the Goldsmiths’ Profe…

Wearable electronic components incorporated directly into fabrics have been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge. The devices could be used for flexible circuits, healthcare monitoring, energy conversion, and other applications.The Cambridge researchers, working in collaboration with colleagues at Jiangnan University in China, ha…

Collaboration between government and startups could help meet the climate challenge while growing small businesses. Findings could inform discussions on Green New Deal or any “forward-looking policy package” say researchers.Latest research on hundreds of new green technology companies in the US shows the patenting activity of a startup climbs by ov…

A recent University of Cambridge spin-out company, Paragraf, has started producing graphene – a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick – at up to eight inches (20cm) in diameter, large enough for commercial electronic devices. Paragraf is producing graphene ‘wafers’ and graphene-based electronic devices, which could be used in transistors, whe…

On 14th February 2019 Energy@Cambridge hosted the first Forum meeting of the new Cambridge Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Eliminate Plastic Waste at the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge. The Centre is one of eight new research projects funded through the Plastics and Research Innovation Fund managed by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The Cam…

Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green revolution. The key to making electronics portable – and powering a sea change in how we communicate and consume information – was the commercialisation of lithium-ion batteries by Sony in 1991. Lithium-ion…

Cambridge's Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Eliminate Plastic Waste is one of eight new research projects exploring ways of making, using and recycling plastics which have been announced by the Science Minister, Chris Skidmore on 18 December 2018. The projects are part of the government's Industrial Strategy and will commence from January…

The Cambridge Royce has been granted funding to sponsor five participants to take part in the Impulse 2019 Programme, which will run in April and July 2019.Impulse serves as a catalyst for entrepreneurship in individuals and organisations. The programme is about strong action learning and result driven where participants bring their innovative idea…

Following a speed networking session in February 2018 a call was announced for an In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy Small Grants scheme. Energy@Cambridge secured £10k funds from the Isaac Newton Trust/ Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) to support new small collaborative multi-disciplinary projects lasting 1 to 3 months between 2 or more researche…

Cambridge University, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University expand NRF-funded research programme to decarbonise Singapore and the worldCambridge University’s Singapore research centre, the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore Ltd (Cambridge CARES), has been awarded funding for another fiv…

Researchers have set a new efficiency record for LEDs based on perovskite semiconductors, rivalling that of the best organic LEDs (OLEDs). Compared to OLEDs, which are widely used in high-end consumer electronics, the perovskite-based LEDs, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, can be made at much lower costs, and can be tuned to…

The Cambridge Royce facilities were officially opened on 17th October by Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, who unveiled an official plaque at the Maxwell Centre. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Stephen Toope, also gave a welcome address, highlighting the breadth of the research areas supported by the Cambridge Royce faciliti…