Energy Efficient Cities initiative
01 August 2009A multidisciplinary initiative is focusing on the complex energy requirements of cities and how they can be reshaped.
Research
A multidisciplinary initiative is focusing on the complex energy requirements of cities and how they can be reshaped.
A remarkable light-emitting material, gallium nitride, could slash electricity consumption, purify water and kill superbugs.
Coal – affordable and still abundant – but also the worst offender when it comes to fuel-associated carbon emissions. How well can coal be cleaned...
How can the cost of solar cells be reduced enough to make them a feasible source of large-scale renewable energy? The answer is to make...
A consortium led by Dr Julian Allwood aims to drive a step-change in the manufacturing of steel and aluminium to meet 2050 carbon targets.
The path from innovation to impact can be long and complex. Here we describe the 30-year journey behind the development of a drug now being...
The path from innovation to impact can be long and complex. Here we describe the fascinating story behind the development of a new type of...
Renaissance scholar Dr Abigail Brundin, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian, has been awarded an ‘I Tatti’ Fellowship from Harvard University, enabling her to...
A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called...
A groundbreaking new study, supported by The Bonita Trust*, that will look at Charles Darwin's impact on attitudes to gender and sexuality, has been announced...