Advanced materials

The Graphene Flagship – one of Europe’s first ten-year, 1bn Euro flagships in Future and Emerging Technologies – has been launched.

Ultra-light, high performance electrical wiring, made from carbon instead of copper, has been developed in a usable form for the first time.

Gallium nitride has been described as “the most important semiconductor since silicon” and is used in energy-saving LED lighting. A new £1million...

A new battery technology provides double the energy storage at lower cost than the batteries that are used in handheld electronics, electric vehicles...

Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene and other two...

New insights from research suggest ways to measure the world at the scale of single atoms and molecules.

A spin-out from Cambridge's Engineering Department and a leading supplier of materials information technology software to industry, Granta Design has...

Cambridge scientists have discovered a way of mimicking the stunningly bright and beautiful colours found on the wings of tropical butterflies. The...