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A New Year Honour for Professor A.K. Cheetham!

03 January 2020 We are delighted to report the news that Professor Anthony Cheetham, FRS, former Goldsmiths Professor and now one of the Department’s Distinguished Research Fellows, was awarded a...

22 June 2026

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Food Bank Christmas Collection

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

Papers of the Month

Nodal superconducting exchange coupling

December, 2019 In a ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic/ferromagnetic multilayer, the electrical resistance depends on the magnetisation alignment between the ferromagnetic layers: the resistance in the antiparallel (AP) state is higher than the parallel...

22 June 2026

Papers of the Month

Survival of the coolest

November, 2019 Cooling accounts for ever more of the worldwide energy budget, and novel approaches are under continuous investigation. For example, there has been significant focus on highly engineered prototype...

22 June 2026

Papers of the Month

Catalysts for Efficient Production of Hydrogen

October, 2019 Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) compounds are promising catalysts for generating hydrogen from water. However, most TMD compounds possess low electrical conductivity so charge transfer required for the catalytic...

22 June 2026

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Atom-by-atom measurements record fundamental mixing processes in glass

October, 2019 Mixing processes are fundamental to many steps in materials processing. By combining more than one component, the properties can be altered or augmented relative to the parent materials...

22 June 2026

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Electrocaloric cycles bite back

October, 2019 Electrocaloric materials display phase transitions that could be exploited for cooling. However, cooling cycles have assumed the use of straight legs, which unrealistically assume peak performance. Consequently, performance...

22 June 2026

Awards and Prizes

Prof Rachel Oliver is an Emerging Technology WISE Award finalist

29 October 2019 Prof Rachel Oliver is one of three Emerging Technology WISE Award finalists!  Rachel hopes that events like the WISE Awards will allow women to see that there are...

22 June 2026

Awards and Prizes

Prof Serena Best CBE awarded the Armourers and Brasiers’ Award

10 October 2019 Professor Serena Best CBE FREng has received the 2019 Armourers and Brasiers’ Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering for successfully using biomaterials to replace and help...

22 June 2026