A wide range of research projects have been supported by our centre over the years. Brief descriptions of projects can be found below.
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Brain navigation: connecting the eyes to the brain
Capturing light with an antenna based on DNA
Upgrading Biology: Building Better than Nature
Nanomaterial engineering in ‘designer’ ionic solvents
Nanorobots – not who you think they are
Batteries to power a sustainable future
Fuels from Air
Photoswitches with ultra-fast response times
Power for Space Missions
Fishing for biomolecules
Construction on the nanoscale with DNA stars
Warning, may contain nuts!
Quantum cryptography with blue-LED technology
Is your sample running a fever?
A perpetual supercomputer
Return to Nature
Understanding the next generation of batteries
Controlling the uncontrollable
Lipids: The Missing Key to the Parkinson’s Puzzle?
Making batteries ring
The Fanciest Colander You’ll Never See
Miniaturisation of barcoding
Capturing the Energy of Individual Electrons
Studying membrane transport electrical ‘colour’
Sun and water, a perfect pair
Rubbing materials to power small devices
Generating electrical currents from light in graphene
Shining Light on Neurodegeneration
Bionic leaf to power your car
Safety alert – beware of battery explosions
Lighting up a greener future
Tiny Cages that deliver medicines
Radically different organic energy materials
A new spin on electronics
Making quantum fly – with microwaves
3D printing going nano
Green chemical synthesis using vitamins and light
Materials chemistry meets stretchable electronics
Spider webs inspire smart, tough materials
Shining new light on old rocks
Controlling nature’s patterns
Functional Nanoelectronics and Quantum Materials
The coolest infrared sensor in the Universe
What can escape from a glass tube sealed with a sheet of atoms?
Making better displays by merging two wonder materials
Shake it up every once in a while…
A new way for brain cancer treatment
The (Di)electric light orchestra
The Nanotoxicity of Bone
Arrangements of metal atoms in nanoparticle catalysts
Solar Energy: Two for Blue
Watching what happens inside working batteries
The power of soft connections: next-generation neural interfaces
Shining light on green hydrogen
Karate on electrons to give a bigger zap from light
Fighting cancer with pink diamonds
Fruit breaking nature’s rules
Opening a Window to Sunlight
Smart surfaces for heating and cooling buildings using only sunlight
Dementia drug screening in hollow-core fibres
Recycling Carbon Dioxide
Frontier observations using superconductors
Low power memory devices
Spare body parts for active (or not-so-active) people
Materials building themselves in water
Squeezing electricity out of new materials
Superconcentration of light and other tricks
Laser texturing for ‘self-cleaning’
Mechanical properties of DNA hydrogels
Preventing human insulin sticking together
Quantum computers with industry-standard silicon technology
Navigating hyper-dimentional voltage space
Seeing dancing molecules on a surface
Bacteria: Enemy or Hero?
Seeing the forest for the trees
Mimicking living systems with DNA
Tiny Barrels Unlock the Materials of Tomorrow
Solar Power on a Roll
Shrunk Electronics
Solar Panels from Bacteria
A lab in the palm of your hand
Investigating synthetic analogues of haem
Nano swiss rolls in batteries
Flexible Electronics
The studies of battery degradation under the microscope
Invisibly Bright Emitters to Make Solar Cells Great Again
Cheaper Energy from the Sun
Wasted Energy into Electricity
Shining a light on the fading mind
The next great detective story: using nanosensors for early cancer detection
Watching molecules grow helps find origin of Alzheimer’s
From waste to hydrogen
Trapping light to open up our universe
Targeting the cure for Tuberculosis: Solid-state nanopore sensing
Better night vision using the darkest material on Earth
Compressing Hard Drives
What if you could see magnetism?
Light at the end of the tunnel
Kicking the Lithium habit
Jelly solar cells
Finding Small Things with Tiny Holes
Building a nanoworld in a pale blue dot
Optical Metamaterials made by Self-Assembly
Materials for motion
Lighter than Feathers but Stronger than Steel
Tangled spaghetti-like molecules lead to new electronics
Smaller and smaller: let’s get weird
Seeing is believing
Making sense of a sea of atoms
Microfluidic bioelectronic interfaces at the cellular level
Shaking things up
Nanotechnology right under our noses
Shaping nanoscale pores with DNA origami
Stacking a market stall with fruit with hands 10,000 times the size!
Nano-Mechanical Quantum Computers
Zero dimensions – a quantum revolution is under way
Flipping spins to boost the efficiency of LEDs
Understanding our brain’s language
Porous nanomaterials: Fuel storage of the future
Catching sunbeams
Singlet Fission Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Can bacteria save the world
Structured Metal Atom Networks
Using light to make chemistry more environmentally friendly
A touch screen for cells: establishing a new method to communicate with biology
Biasing a nanoparticle
Making superconductors more super
Routes of Captured Light
Between Light and Matter
Better Batteries
Cages for the Future – A caravan for molecules is on its way
Counting photons from atoms and stars
Treating cancer using surfaces, light and gold
Pipeline from the Sun
A computer on a needle point
Life from scratch
Nano-structuring of battery electrode
Colour from Nothing
The future is bright for generating new light
Algae Need Vitamins Too
Warning signals for disease from a DNA lightbulb
Solar cells through the Looking Glass of electrons
