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More than 40 companies, mostly from the UK, demonstrated some of the new products being developed from graphene and other two-dimensional materials at the Cambridge Graphene Technology Day last week. Graphene is a two-dimensional material made up of sheets of carbon atoms. With its combination of exceptional electrical, mechanical and thermal prope…

On 29 October Andy Brown, Director Upstream International, Shell, together with a delegation visited the University of Cambridge. Shell met with Shell funded PhD students who presented their research in five minutes. The session was chaired by Dr Dan Credgington, an Energy@Cambridge Energy Champion in the Department of Physics. The talks covered to…

Researchers from UK and Chinese universities, including the University of Cambridge, are collaborating on four new projects to work towards achieving low carbon cities in the UK and China. The projects were announced as Chinese President, Xi Jinping visited the UK.  The projects will receive over £3 million in funding from the UK’s Engineering and …

Researchers have successfully demonstrated how several of the problems impeding the practical development of the so-called ‘ultimate’ battery could be overcome. Scientists have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has very high energy density, is more than 90% efficient, and, to date, can be recharged more t…

The mechanism behind a process known as singlet fission, which could drive the development of highly efficient solar cells, has been directly observed by researchers for the first time. Researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used ultrafast laser pulses to observe how a single particle of light, or photon, can be converted into two energet…

Professor Robert Mair CBE, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and member of Energy@Cambridge at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed an independent crossbench peer in recognition of his world-renowned role as a civil engineer, and his extensive practical and academic expertise on …

Scientists have calculated that millions of tonnes of hydrocarbons are produced annually by photosynthetic bacteria in the world’s oceans.An international team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, has estimated the amount of hydrocarbons – the primary ingredient in crude oil – that are produced by a massive population of photosynthet…

Cambridge’s engagement with India has evolved from scholars working on India to scholars working with, and increasingly, in India – on shared priorities, to mutual advantage. Joya Chatterji, Toby Wilkinson and Bhaskar Vira explain why this is, as Cambridge begins a month-long focus on some of its India-related research.India has a strong tradition …

Over 90 guests attended the opening ceremony of the Yusuf Hamied Laboratory for Chemical Synthesis & Catalysis on 12 September.The new state-of-the-art research laboratory, which was made possible by the generous support of Dr Yusuf K Hamied, will enable Professor Matthew Gaunt and his research group to continue their ground breaking research into …

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Pilkington Prizes for teaching excellence, which included Energy@Cambridge members Dr Bart Hallmark, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and Mary Ann Steane, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art. Thirteen inspirational academics have been honoured for the outstanding quality an…

The University’s annual Switch Off Week, 10 - 16 November, will be all about working together to reduce the University’s energy use. World class research demands energy but we can all help keep the amount used to a minimum say the event's organisers. During the week staff are encouraged to join colleagues in switching off lights, and office and lab…

Energy@cambridge is pleased to announce the winner of its Shell sponsored Future Energy Challenge Poster Competition held on the 22nd October 2014. The first prize of £250 was won by Michael Price, a graduate student and Winton Scholar in the Department of Physics, who presented on the power efficiency gain of Perovskite solar cells and lasers whic…

Dr Lorna Ayton, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, won the SET for Britain Silver Award for a poster on Reducing the Sound Generated by Aeroengines.

The senior academic promotions take effect from 1 October 2015. 39 Professorships have been announced, together with 41 Readerships and 23 Senior Lectureships. These include Professorships for 11 Energy@Cambridge members, including the following: Dr James Haseloff in the Department of Plant Sciences; David Howarth in the Department of Land Economy;…

Reported by Natalie Miazga, CSaP Policy InternIn a Science Festival event hosted by CSaP, the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment, and the Energy@Cambridge Initiative, a panel of speakers brought together the challenges and opportunities presented by rapid growth and urbanisation of cities. This was followed by a second panel of …