Materials Science and Metallurgy
Papers of the Month
February, 2018 High performance energy storage devices are in very high demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and other high temperature capacitor applications, where it is critical to store and deliver...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
January, 2018 Nanoparticles of gold, silver, and aluminium can capture light’s energy via localized surface plasmon resonances, an oscillation of the particle’s electron cloud. Once excited, this resonance can enhance...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
January, 2018 There has been tremendous interest in piezoelectricity at the nanoscale, for example in nanowires and nanofibers where piezoelectric properties may be enhanced or controllably tuned, thus necessitating robust...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
January, 2018 First-year undergraduates in this department perform an experiment in which they increase the electrical conductivity of silver iodide by melting the cation sublattice. Given that this thermally driven...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
January, 2018 Nanoparticles of gold, silver, and aluminium can capture light’s energy via localized surface plasmon resonances, an oscillation of the particle’s electron cloud. Once excited, this resonance can enhance...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
December, 2017 Self-assembly of nanostructures is a straightforward way to create structures which exhibit unusual quantum properties. In self-assembly, spontaneous processes lead to the creation of nanoscale structures when the...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
December, 2017 Recent advances in electron microscopy, and particularly electron tomography, have suggested the possibility of locating the atoms that make up solids in three-dimensions with picometre precision. However, the only experimental reports...
22 June 2026
Awards and Prizes
21 September 2018 Dr Robert Hoye has been awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship to advance his research career. These Fellowships provide early-career researchers with five years’ worth of...
22 June 2026
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November, 2017 Metal-organic frameworks are porous materials that are proposed for use in a variety of gas storage and separation, catalytic, nuclear waste recycling and drug-delivery applications. Over 60,000 exist,...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
November, 2017 Predicting the timing of an earthquake is a fundamental goal of scientists. A team from the University of Cambridge, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Boston University have identified a...
22 June 2026