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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Shaping nanoscale pores with DNA origami
The studies of battery degradation under the microscope
Optical Metamaterials made by Self-Assembly
Recycling Carbon Dioxide
Trapping liquids in a sponge
Low power memory devices
Karate on electrons to give a bigger zap from light
Materials building themselves in water
Cheaper Energy from the Sun
Zero dimensions – a quantum revolution is under way
Upgrading Biology: Building Better than Nature
Shake it up every once in a while…
Warning signals for disease from a DNA lightbulb
Invisibly Bright Emitters to Make Solar Cells Great Again
Nanorobots – not who you think they are
Lighting up a greener future
Seeing the forest for the trees
Shining new light on old rocks
Smaller and smaller: let’s get weird
Photoswitches with ultra-fast response times
Studying membrane transport electrical ‘colour’
Navigating hyper-dimentional voltage space
Fruit breaking nature’s rules
Solar Panels from Bacteria
From waste to hydrogen
Arrangements of metal atoms in nanoparticle catalysts
Porous nanomaterials: Fuel storage of the future
Sun and water, a perfect pair
Nano-Mechanical Quantum Computers
The (Di)electric light orchestra
Rubbing materials to power small devices
Shrunk Electronics
Solar cells through the Looking Glass of electrons
Laser texturing for ‘self-cleaning’
Finding Small Things with Tiny Holes
Nanotechnology right under our noses
Wasted Energy into Electricity
Nano-structuring of battery electrode
Power for Space Missions
Fuels from Air
Building a nanoworld in a pale blue dot
Trapping light to open up our universe
Mimicking living systems with DNA
Using light to make chemistry more environmentally friendly
Tangled spaghetti-like molecules lead to new electronics
Quantum cryptography with blue-LED technology
Counting photons from atoms and stars
Construction on the nanoscale with DNA stars
3D printing going nano
The coolest infrared sensor in the Universe
Making better displays by merging two wonder materials
Controlling nature’s patterns
Materials chemistry meets stretchable electronics
A lab in the palm of your hand
Fishing for biomolecules
Targeting the cure for Tuberculosis: Solid-state nanopore sensing
Capturing the Energy of Individual Electrons
Seeing dancing molecules on a surface
Brain navigation: connecting the eyes to the brain
Quantum computers with industry-standard silicon technology
Lighter than Feathers but Stronger than Steel
Singlet Fission Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Dementia drug screening in hollow-core fibres
Opening a Window to Sunlight
Fighting cancer with pink diamonds
Controlling the uncontrollable
Radically different organic energy materials
The future is bright for generating new light
Between Light and Matter
Cages for the Future – A caravan for molecules is on its way
Tiny Cages that deliver medicines
A computer on a needle point
Green chemical synthesis using vitamins and light
Better night vision using the darkest material on Earth
Stacking a market stall with fruit with hands 10,000 times the size!
Capturing light with an antenna based on DNA
Spider webs inspire smart, tough materials
Routes of Captured Light
Is your sample running a fever?
Return to Nature
Solar Energy: Two for Blue
Flipping spins to boost the efficiency of LEDs
Can bacteria save the world
Shining Light on Neurodegeneration
Generating electrical currents from light in graphene
Colour from Nothing
Bionic leaf to power your car
Algae Need Vitamins Too
Lipids: The Missing Key to the Parkinson’s Puzzle?
Watching molecules grow helps find origin of Alzheimer’s
Making sense of a sea of atoms
Materials for motion
Spare body parts for active (or not-so-active) people
Seeing is believing
Bacteria: Enemy or Hero?
The Nanotoxicity of Bone
Batteries to power a sustainable future
A perpetual supercomputer
A new way for brain cancer treatment
Treating cancer using surfaces, light and gold
Warning, may contain nuts!
Flexible Electronics
Better Batteries
Investigating synthetic analogues of haem
Nano swiss rolls in batteries
Catching sunbeams
Frontier observations using superconductors
Solar Power on a Roll
The power of soft connections: next-generation neural interfaces
Mechanical properties of DNA hydrogels
Safety alert – beware of battery explosions
The next great detective story: using nanosensors for early cancer detection
Making quantum fly – with microwaves
Squeezing electricity out of new materials
A touch screen for cells: establishing a new method to communicate with biology
Microfluidic bioelectronic interfaces at the cellular level
Pipeline from the Sun
Structured Metal Atom Networks
Understanding the next generation of batteries
Kicking the Lithium habit
Smart surfaces for heating and cooling buildings using only sunlight
Shining light on green hydrogen
What if you could see magnetism?
Compressing Hard Drives
Preventing human insulin sticking together
Life from scratch
Miniaturisation of barcoding
Nanomaterial engineering in ‘designer’ ionic solvents
Light at the end of the tunnel
What can escape from a glass tube sealed with a sheet of atoms?
Functional Nanoelectronics and Quantum Materials
Understanding our brain’s language
Watching what happens inside working batteries
Biasing a nanoparticle
Shining a light on the fading mind
Making superconductors more super
Superconcentration of light and other tricks
Making batteries ring
Shaking things up
Jelly solar cells
Tiny Barrels Unlock the Materials of Tomorrow
A new spin on electronics
