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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…

Dr Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for her work on: A Cross-Correlated Approach to Engineering Nitride Nanowires.The grants are awarded under the 'excellent science' pillar of Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation programme.Read further by clicking here: http://ow.l…

The Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, along with Imperial College London, Brunel University and University of Birmingham, has been awarded an EPSRC funded project aimed at minimising primary-energy use in the UK industry. The four year multidisciplinary project, in collaboration with a large number of in…

New experimental research has observed up to 28 orders of parametric resonance, which has until now, only theoretically predicted.The research publication co-authored by CSIC Co-Investigator, Dr Ashwin Seshia, PhD student Sijun Du and former CSIC Research Associate Dr Yu Jia, experimentally confirmed up to 28 orders of parametric resonance in a mic…

Study of natural-occurring 100,000 year-old carbon dioxide (CO2) reservoirs shows no significant corroding of ‘cap rock’, suggesting the greenhouse gas hasn’t leaked back out - one of the main concerns with greenhouse gas reduction proposal of carbon capture and storage.By studying a natural reservoir in Utah, USA, where CO2 released from deeper fo…

Concrete and steel are the primary materials used in constructing buildings, however, University of Cambridge researchers have shown an alternative more energy efficient materials can be used.Dr Michelle Oyen's (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) research in the field of biomimetics investigates artificial bone and eggshell. The co…

On 20th May, 2016, Professor Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, visited the centre for Energy and Environmental Policy - Beijing Institute of Technology (CEEP-BIT), China. Professor Pollitt presented on the topic “In Search of ’Good’ Energy Policy: why multi-disciplinary approaches to energy and climate problems are so…

The Department of Engineering’s Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) is building on advances in sensing technology to learn everything possible about a city’s infrastructure. This includes tunnels, roads, bridges, sewers and power supplies, in order to maintain a city and optimise its use for the future. CSIC, an Innovation and K…

On 9 June the Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN) hosted its annual Energy Conference 2016: Renewable Energy – The Holy Grail of Future Energy?Energy@Cambridge was pleased to be a sponsor of the event. Invited speakers covered the challenges lying ahead of the energy industry transitioning from fossil fuels to a CO2-free generation.Speakers:…

In the search for low emission plant-based fuels, new research may help avoid having to choose between growing crops for food or fuel.Scientists have identified new steps in the way plants produce cellulose, the component of plant cell walls that provides strength, and forms insoluble fibre in the human diet. The findings could lead to improved pro…

On 21 March The Alan Turing Institute (ATI) Energy Summit took place in Murray Edwards College and was organised by the Energy@Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute and sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(EPSRC).The objective of the Summit was to highlight the requireme…