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New research involving Professor James Elliott from the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy has demonstrated a low‑CO₂ method for converting methane into hydrogen while simultaneously producing high‑performance carbon nanotubes....
27 October 2026
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The University of Cambridge is part of the founding lab network of the AI Materials Foundry, a global network launched by Cambridge-based start-up CuspAI to accelerate the discovery and design...
27 October 2026
Awards and Prizes
Dr Stefano Racioppi has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant to establish an independent research programme in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. ERC Starting...
3 September 2026
Awards and Prizes
Congratulations! to Damilola Oduneye on becoming an East of England finalist in the Rising Star of the Year category at the National Apprenticeship and Skills Awards 2026. The National Apprenticeship...
21 August 2026
Awards and Prizes
Dr Mengfan Guo has been awarded a prestigious eight-year Royal Society University Research Fellowship to establish a new research programme in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. The University...
28 July 2026
Awards and Prizes
The Photoactive Materials Group led by Professor Rachel Evans has successfully achieved reaccreditation of its Gold LEAF Award, recognising the group’s continued commitment to laboratory sustainability and environmental best practice....
22 July 2026
Awards and Prizes
Special congratulations to: Xinjuan Li, winner of the “Ron and Davida Broom Paper Prize 2026” for her paper, Multimodal electron microscopy of halide perovskite interfacial dynamics, published in Nature 651,...
3 July 2026
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16 January 2020 Professor James Elliott, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, and colleagues from across the University of Cambridge discuss the battle to reduce plastic waste using blue-sky thinking...
22 June 2026
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06 December 2019 Staff and students at the Department of Materials Science have once again been generously donating festive foods and other trimmings to gift to the Cambridge City Food Bank’s...
22 June 2026
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03 October 2019 The University of Cambridge has recognised the challenges faced by employees who have responsibility for children or older dependants when, for example, childcare provision is unexpectedly unavailable or...
22 June 2026