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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
Papers of the Month
May, 2020 The understanding of electronic behaviour at grain boundaries is crucial in designing hybrid perovskite materials, which have promising applications in solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Specifically, charge trap...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
June, 2020 Familiar springs are wires formed into coils but, in comparison, thin sheets formed into wavy shapes can elastically support a given load in much smaller working volume, using...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
June, 2020 Over the past few years there has been rapidly growing interest in ‘magnetic skyrmions’, which are topologically protected magnetic bubbles with promising applications in next-generation computing devices. Recently,...
22 June 2026