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Joint research programme will focus on how to convert carbon dioxide to useful chemicalsA 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 transforming carbon dioxide …

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 Singaporean universities and…

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 Singaporean universities and …

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, biophotovoltaics (BPVs, a…

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 also highlighted new resear…

Researchers distil twenty years of lessons from clean energy funding into six ‘guiding principles’. They argue that governments must eschew constant reinventions and grant scientists greater influence before our “window of opportunity” to avert climate change closes.In a recent Nature article, researchers from the universities of Cambridge, Minneso…

The CAM-IES Symposium on Photovoltaics and Thermoelectrics was held on 9 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, and highlighting thermoelectri…

It is understood that the world will not become carbon-free in the near future, developed and developing countries rely on fossil fuels for transport, industry and power, all of which release CO2 into the atmosphere. As sea levels rise, ‘unprecedented’ weather events become commonplace and the polar ice caps melt, the question raised is that how us…

It is understood that the world will not become carbon-free in the near future, developed and developing countries rely on fossil fuels for transport, industry and power, all of which release CO2 into the atmosphere. As sea levels rise, ‘unprecedented’ weather events become commonplace and the polar ice caps melt, the question raised is that how us…

The Faraday Institution, a new, multi-million pound research institute was announced yesterday (Monday 02 October 2017), by Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. It will drive and accelerate fundamental research in developing battery technologies, and its translation.The Institution will be the UK's independen…

The EPSRC Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) invited PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to present their recent results at the CAM-IES Autumn Symposium, which was held at the Blizard Institute on the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) campus on 21 September 2017, and attended by around eighty early-caree…

Researchers have shown that defects in the molecular structure of perovskites – a material which could revolutionise the solar cell industry – can be “healed” by exposing it to light and just the right amount of humidity.The international team of researchers demonstrated in 2016 that defects in the crystalline structure of perovskites could be heal…

The Faith, Energy and Society Workshop, 3 March 2017, brought together academics and practitioners from different disciplines and institutions throughout the UK. The workshop, as a part of the Energy@Cambridge's Grand Challenge, ‘In Search of “Good” Energy Policy’, explored the insights, beliefs, and practices that different religious traditions (i…

Understanding mechanical behaviour of different soil types is key to successful and economic construction. The UK has pioneered tunnelling achievement and is a world-leader in the area, as there is a wealth of knowledge on saturated soils. However, large parts of the world where natural soil is partially saturated, less is known about the behaviour…

The EPSRC has issued a call inviting researchers interested in collaborating on and scoping research projects for the Faraday Challenge Batteries Research Institute.Challenge areas that have been pre-identified by industry and academia as having the capability to be 'fast-start projects' to establish the core capabilities of this funding programme …