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A small multidisciplinary team from Innovation Forum (Cambridge) travelled to Tanzania to research the off-grid solar development of rural electrification. The In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy was pleased to support the activity as one of the funders through its Small Grants Award.The team interviewed a range of stakeholders in the solar industry …

Picture this, non-recyclable waste reused to make use of its intrinsic energy, extending its life-cycle for that little bit longer in transforming it into hydrogen (H2), whilst alleviating plastic waste. Led by Professor Reisner Erwin, researchers from the Reisner Lab (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) have demonstrated transformati…

The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward after researchers successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen by altering the photosynthetic machinery in plants. A new study, led by Katarzyna Sokół, in Professor Erwin Reisner group at the University of Cambridge, used semi-artificial photosynthesis to explore new wa…

From their base halfway across the globe in Singapore, Cambridge researchers are working with colleagues from around the world to reduce carbon emissions in industry. For a chemical engineer, Jurong Island is a kind of paradise. The artificial island, built upon seven smaller islands off the Singapore mainland in the 1980s and 1990s, is now home to…

Professor Clare Grey discusses newly discovered materials that could significantly improve battery charging speeds on the BBC World Service programme. Professor Grey's segment starts at 8:07.Click https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tdr0rImage credit: BBC World Service

A study led by Drs Kent Griffith, Lauren Marbella and Professor Clare Grey (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) has identified new materials that could improve battery charging speeds. A group of materials have been identified that could be used to make even higher power batteries. They have used materials with a complex crystalline s…

On the 23rd May Cambridge Nuclear Energy Centre and Energy@Cambridge hosted 27 senior executives from China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGNPC) who are involved with the development of new build projects at Hinkley Point, Bradwell and Sizewell.The seminar kicked-off with a history of the Nuclear Industry in the UK from Simon Taylor (JBS) auth…

CAM-IES Industry Workshop: Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensors and the Internet of ThingsThursday 12 April 2018On 12 May 2018 the first CAM-IES Industry Workshop was held at Trinity College, Cambridge. The workshop brought together academic experts, with backgrounds in energy materials and devices, with industrial partners from a range of indust…

CAM-IES/AIP Horizons Conference on Interfaces in Energy Materials10-12 April 2018, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, CambridgeThe AIP/CAM-IES Conference: "Interfaces in Energy Materials" was held on 10-12 April 2018 at Trinity College, Cambridge. The conference was attended by 100 delegates from all over the world, with invited talks fro…

Professor Lynn Gladden CBE, FRS, FREng has been selected to be the next Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), as announced on 3 May 2018, by Science Minister Sam Gyimah. She will take up the role in October. Professor Gladden is currently Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambr…

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 consumption. Spin is a parti…

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 date have limited the effici…

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 understand the precise chemistry …

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 and academia with represent…

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 national battery research i…