Brushing up on soft materials for nanotechnology
01 September 2008Taking their cue from the building blocks of life, Cambridge chemists are assembling polymers that move.
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Taking their cue from the building blocks of life, Cambridge chemists are assembling polymers that move.
Creating circuits from multiple components is routine in engineering. Can living systems be constructed using similar principles?
Cambridge’s new NanoPhotonics Centre is creating novel properties of light and matter at the nanoscale.
At the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials, a highly interdisciplinary approach is meeting the challenge of bioengineering new materials for the human body.
A UK-wide collaboration led by the Department of Earth Sciences is uncovering the counterintuitive properties of flexible materials.
Only a single class of engineering materials can withstand the extreme conditions deep within a jet aeroplane engine – the nickel-base superalloys.
An industrial-grade aerospace gas turbine combustion simulator – the first of its kind in the UK and one of only a dozen worldwide – is...
Many UK manufacturers have transferred their production to low-cost regions to reduce costs. But a new study has discovered that these savings are not as...
A magnificent new collection at the University Library makes Cambridge a major international centre for Montaigne scholarship.
New research could help improve the learning experience of students from backgrounds where there is little tradition of higher education.