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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 …

Researchers have demonstrated how a non-toxic alternative to lead could form the basis of next-generation solar cells. The team of researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the United States, have used theoretical and experimental methods to show how bismuth – the so-called “green element” which sits next to lead on the periodic table, coul…

The Platform on International Energy Governance held its first annual event on 22 June 2017. Entitled ‘An Inclusive Energy Transition? Global low-carbon strategies and their discontents’, the event brought together over 40 leading and early career academics and practitioners to discuss how the costs and benefits of the energy transition can be best…

CAM-IES held a networking symposium at Queen Mary University of London on 21 September 2017 for CAM-IES early career researchers, and members of the wider energy systems community. The symposium featured expert speakers from the fields of hybrid photovoltaics, energy harvesting, fuel cells, solid state batteries and flow batteries. Early career res…

IFBF, the International Flow Battery Forum, was held on 27-29 June in Manchester. CAM-IES announced the first call for proposals for short projects on redox flow batteries at IFBF, to open in mid-July. 

The CAM-IES launch was held at the Maxwell Centre in Cambridge on 11 May 2017. Academic investigators, researchers and industry partners met to discuss the Centre's six work packages and broader networking goals. 

Cambridge collaborative research into the development of self-healing cement-based materials for infrastructure has received a £4.85m funding boost from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Professor Abir Al-Tabbaa (Department of Engineering) said the newly funded Resilient Materials 4 Life (RM4L) programme grant, announc…

Researchers, from the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick, have developed the world’s thinnest metallic nanowire, which could be used to miniaturise many of the electronic components in use every day. The wire, made from a single string of tellurium atoms, is a true one-dimensional (1-D) material. These 1-D wires are produced inside extremely thi…

The University of Cambridge’s Strategic Research Initiative for energy researchers, Energy@Cambridge, organised a workshop on Faith, Energy and Society, in partnership with The Faraday Institute, Woolf Institute, Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry (VHI) and the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics (KLICE). The event was led by …

On the 11 May Energy@Cambridge organised the launch of the Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) at the Maxwell Centre in Cambridge which brought together the CAM-IES Co-Investigators and industry project partners, including CDT, Shell, Johnson Matthey, Deregallera, Eight19 and ARM.The CAM-IESis a £2 Million EPSRC ne…

In collaboration with the Maison française d’Oxford, Energy@Cambridge at the University of Cambridge, and with EDF Energy’s support, the French Embassy’s Nuclear Department organized a Franco-British seminar in Oxford on 15 May devoted to the human, social and ethical dimensions of nuclear energy.The objective was to hand the floor to young researc…