Materials Science and Metallurgy
General
12 February 2019 Dr Robert Hoye has been announced as one of Forbes’ 2019’s 30 Under 30 rising talent in Science and Healthcare in Europe, recognising his research on semiconductors and...
22 June 2026
General
07 February 2019 Professor Rachel Oliver spoke to the UK’s Parliament’s Commons Select Committee about diversity in science last week, particularly in relation to the need for an inquiry into...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
January, 2019 The colour of a material is often determined by the types of bonds and geometry in which the atoms in the material are arranged. As a result, measuring...
22 June 2026
General
04 January 2019 We start the New Year with the news that Professor Serena Best has been welcomed by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) as their new...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
December, 2018 Petroleum has long been a relatively inexpensive, abundant, and convenient source of energy. One of the biggest drawbacks to using it as fuel is that copious amounts of...
22 June 2026
General
06 December 2018 Staff and students at the Department of Materials Science have been generously donating festive foods and other trimmings recently and have been able to prepare 9 Christmas hampers to...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
November, 2018 Triboelectric motion sensors, based on the generation of a voltage across two dissimilar materials sliding across each other as a result of the triboelectric effect, have generated interest...
22 June 2026
Awards and Prizes
30 November 2018 Dr Rachel Evans has received an ERC Consolidator grant (2.1 m Euro) for her project SPECTRACON. In SPECTRACON Rachel, and her team, will develop new spectral conversion materials based on...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
November, 2018 Visible-light communications (VLCs) based on white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are a low-cost and energy-efficient alternative solution to wireless communications. As white LEDs use a combination of a long-lived...
22 June 2026
General
27 November 2018 The Department is saddened to hear of Dr Ron Broom’s death earlier this month. Ron Broom retired from his work as a semiconductor device scientist at IBM...
22 June 2026