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The Maxwell Centre was launched in April 2016, as a centrepiece for industry engagement across Physical Sciences and Technology at the University of Cambridge. The first Annual Research Showcase event took place on 17 March 2017 to celebrate the breadth and quality of Cambridge research in the context of external partnerships, opportunities and col…

Research into improving energy storage, reducing power consumption and developing new energy-efficient devices received a boost with the announcement of £10m funding for new equipment at the University of Cambridge.The new funding is part of a £128million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) investment in the Sir Henry Royce I…

Research into improving energy storage, reducing power consumption and developing new energy-efficient devices received a boost with the announcement of £10m funding for new equipment at the University of Cambridge.This funding will be vitally important in terms of enabling what we do with advanced materials to be enhanced both in terms of upstream…

Alison Smith, Professor of Plant Biochemistry in the Department of Plant Sciences, whose research interests include algal synthetic biology, has been featured on the BBC's The Life Scientific.In her interview Alison Smith talks to Jim al-Khalili about the many varied uses of algae, as well as their often strange biochemistry and ecology. Among othe…

Dr Abu Yaya (Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ghana) has been working closely with Dr Kevin Knowles (Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) on electroporcelain. Electroporcelain is a small but crucial component for power transmission, and Dr Yaya aims to use it in order to de…

On 26 January the first meeting on the EPSRC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) was held in Cambridge. The £2 Million EPSRC Networking Grant is a partnership between four UK universities, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen Mary and University College London and industry partners. The academic part…

On 26 January the first meeting on the EPSRC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) was held in Cambridge and chaired by Prof Clare Grey. The £2 Million EPSRC Networking Grant is a partnership between four UK universities, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen Mary and University College London and indus…

The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, in collaboration with the In Search of ‘Good’ Energy Policy Grand Challenge and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, has created a Platform on International Energy Governance to foster the conduct of research in unexplored areas of international energy law and po…

Since its discovery in 2004, scientists have believed that graphene may have the innate ability to superconduct. Now Cambridge researchers have found a way to activate that previously dormant potential. Researchers have found a way to trigger the innate, but previously hidden, ability of graphene to act as a superconductor – meaning that it can be …

When solids flow like liquids they can make sand dunes sing, and they can also result in a potentially deadly avalanche. Cambridge researchers are studying the physics behind both of these phenomena, which could have applications in industries such as pharmaceuticals, oil and gas.As grains of sand slide down the side of certain dunes, they create v…

On 3 November Andy Brown, Director Upstream International, Shell, together with a delegation visited the University of Cambridge. Energy@Cambridge organised for a number of Shell funded PhD students and early career researchers to present their research in five minutes. The session was chaired by Prof Lindsay Greer, Head of the School of Physical S…

A new prototype of a lithium-sulphur battery – which could have five times the energy density of a typical lithium-ion battery – overcomes one of the key hurdles preventing their commercial development by mimicking the structure of the cells which allow us to absorb nutrients. The new design, by researchers from the University of Cambridge, overcom…

A new design for transistors which operate on ‘scavenged’ energy from their environment could form the basis for devices which function for months or years without a battery, and could be used for wearable or implantable electronics. Using a similar principle to a computer in sleep mode, the new transistor harnesses a tiny ‘leakage’ of electrical c…

The University of Cambridge has secured a £2 Million EPSRC Networking Grant, through the support of Energy@Cambridge. The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) is a partnership between four UK universities, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen Mary and University College London and our industry partners. The focus of CAM-IES i…

Energy@Cambridge, supported by funding from the ESRC DTP as part of its programme of interdisciplinary activities, selected a number of University of Cambridge PhD students to attend the Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS)’s Engineering a Better World conference on 13 September 2016.This was hosted by the Royal Ac…