Department News
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February 2012A breakthrough technique for manufacturing LEDs on silicon, developed in the laboratory of Sir Prof Colin Humphreys, will be exploited in the UK by Plessey. Read the full article in the University's Research News. |
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December 2011Congratulations to ED PICKERING and CAROLINE GODDARD on receiving their IoM3 student prizes. Ed won The Royal Charter Prize for the best materials student regardless of discipline. He read Natural Sciences here in Cambridge, specialising in Materials Science, and now continues to study here for a PhD. The A T Green Award for the best ceramics student was awarded to Caroline Goddard, originally at The University of Manchester, but now studying for a PhD in the Department. |
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September 2011Congratulations to ED PICKERING who won the award for BEST MATERIALS STUDENT at the 2011 Science, Engineering and Technology Student of the Year Awards. |
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August 2011Concrete being poured for new building. Construction has started on the new building for the Department on the West Cambridge Science and Technology Campus. The building is expected to be completed in early 2013. Over many days in July concrete was poured to form the foundation slab for the main building. This large operation has involved cement mixer lorries arriving on site every 8 minutes. In early September there will be an even more carefully choreographed pour -- of the extra-thick anti-vibration foundation slab for our new state-of-the-art electron microscopy suite. |
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June 2011Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum. This year's Kelly Lecture was given by Prof Albert Fert from the Universite Paris-Sud (Orsay). Prof Fert is the first Nobel Prize winner to give a Kelly Lecture and his talk was entitled "Spintronics: Electrons, Spins, Computers and Telephones". Five other talks were given by Prof Siomon Cox (Aberystwyth University), Dr Geoffrey Andrews (Ranier Technology), Dr Nikolaos Vlasopoulos (Novacem), Dr Peter Bonfield (BRE and ODA) and Prof Richard Friend (Cavendish). |
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June 2011SKF Technology Centre opens up research into new bearing steels . The SKF University Technology Centre for Steels was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Tom Johnstone, President and Chief Executive Officer of SKF,and the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz. This cermony took place in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy on 9 June 2011. SKF and Cambridge aim to obtain and develop the necessary knowledge for designing the next generation of bearing steels and the Centre will be led by Professor Harry Bhadeshia. |
January 2011Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2010 - This year's excellent RI Christmas Lectures by Mark Miodownik (KCL) under the heading of Size Matters showcased materials and microstructure. Mark featured work from the Cambridge Materials Department: in Lecture 2, John Aveson (from our Rolls-Royce UTP) helped to demonstrate why superalloys are 'super', while Lecture 3 culminated in the story of Alan Windle's ultra-strong carbon-nanotube yarns. |
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November 2010Work has begun at West Cambridge on the construction of a £41 million new home for the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. |
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November 2010University of Cambridge spin-out Q-Flo Limited has signed an agreement with a major manufacturer to continue the commercial development of its super-strong carbon nanotube fibre, which is three times tougher than that currently used to make body armour. |
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September 2010Most powerful microscope in the UK unveiled . The most powerful atom resolving microscope in the UK was today revealed at the University of Cambridge. The new electron microscope, which will enable scientists to view individual atoms in any material, was officially unveiled by the Minister for Universities and Science, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP. |
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June 2010The University honoured Dr Rob Wallach with a Pilkington Prize for his outstanding contributions to teaching. These are awarded annually to 12 members of the University's teaching staff. |
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The 2010 Armourers and Brasiers' Cambridge Forum was held on Tuesday 15th June 2010 at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. |
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A knighthood has been awarded to Professor Colin Humphreys, CBE, FREng for services to Science |
May 2010Senior academic promotions from October 1st: Bill Clegg to be professor; Zoe Barber and Cathie Rae to be readers |
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January 2010Congratulations to Dave Duke, principal technician of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, who has received an MBE in the 2010 New Years honours list. |
December 2009Cambridge scientists have shown that is possible to control the effective magnetization, as well as its direction, in a ferromagnet. Link |
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November 2009Rolls-Royce and the EPSRC announce a new £50 million partnership. The Strategic Partnership in Structural Metallic Systems for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications is the first collaboration of its kind between Rolls-Royce, EPSRC, Birmingham, Cambridge and Swansea universities and will involve at least two of our department academics, Dr Howard Stone and Dr Cathie Rae. Link |
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October 2009Congratulations to Serena Best and Ruth Cameron on their respective promotions to Professorships. |
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September 2009200+ alumni and current members of the department attended a seminar entitled "Cambridge Materials Science around the World in the 21st Century" marking the 800th year of the University. |
June 2009In aid of the Cottrell Appeal and in celebration of the 800th anniversary of the University, our US Alumni met at the Brook Club, New York. This event was attended by HRH The Earl of Wessex, Patron of the Cottrell Appeal and Sir Graeme Davies, Chair of the Cottrell Appeal. Link |
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May 2009SKF sets up a new research laboratory in Cambridge. The SKF UTC will forcus on the physical metallurgy of bearing steels and will be lead by Professor Harry Bhadeshia. Link |
January 2009EPSRC highlight Professor Colin Humphreys world leading research into Gallium Nitride lighting in the first edition of their Pioneer magazine. Link |
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December 2008Cambridge comes top in the 2008 RAE for Materials Science and Metallurgy. Link |
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November 2008Tata Steel has announced the donation to endow a Professorship of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. Based in the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, the first Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy will be Dr Harry Bhadeshia, a world renowned expert on the physical metallurgy of steels. Link |