Materials Science and Metallurgy
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November, 2017 The hunt for high temperature superconductivity has been reinvigorated by the experimental discovery that compressed H2S exhibits a Tc of up to 203K at megabar pressures (1Mbar=100GPa). A...
22 June 2026
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November, 2017 The Cambridge Spinning Process, invented here at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, uniquely generates textiles composed of aligned, long-length single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT), all in...
22 June 2026
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October, 2017 Complex network analysis is a computational tool that be been used to study problems as diverse as uncovering hidden social groupings and divining new tasty recipes. A collaboration...
22 June 2026
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October, 2017 Energy harvesting from ubiquitous ambient vibrations represents a viable energy solution for the rapidly increasing number of low-power autonomous, wireless, portable and wearable electronic devices. Triboelectric generators have...
22 June 2026
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October, 2017 Single photon sources are light emitting devices which produce exactly and only one photon on demand. To exploit such light emitters to encode information totally securely, using quantum...
22 June 2026
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August, 2017 Solar energy conversion technologies have a crucial role to play in our transition to an all-renewables society. However, single junction solar cells, such as those now widely found...
22 June 2026
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August, 2017 A new electron microscopy and data processing technique has been developed to reveal sub-nanometre changes in the chemistry at the surface of a cerium oxide-based catalyst. Cerium oxide catalysts, used widely...
22 June 2026
General
18 September 2018 We are very pleased to announce that Prof Judith Driscoll is one of the 50 new fellows elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering. RAEng press release
22 June 2026
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September, 2017 Supercapacitors promise recharging of phones and other devices in seconds and minutes vs hours for batteries. Current technologies, however, are not usually flexible, have insufficient capacities, and their performance...
22 June 2026
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01 August 2018 Paul Coxon and Tongtong Zhu have been selected as semi-finalists in the 2018 Postdoc Business Plan Competition, run by Cambridge Enterprise with the Entrepreneurial Postdocs of Cambridge (EPOC). ...
22 June 2026