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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From waste to hydrogen
Smaller and smaller: let’s get weird
Rubbing materials to power small devices
Generating electrical currents from light in graphene
Cell Membrane-on-a-Chip for Drug Interaction Studies
Kicking the Lithium habit
Watching molecules grow helps find origin of Alzheimer’s
Documenting the lifespan of electrons, from birth till death
Better Batteries
Making better displays by merging two wonder materials
Dementia drug screening in hollow-core fibres
Fruit breaking nature’s rules
Spider webs inspire smart, tough materials
Recycling Carbon Dioxide
A touch screen for cells: establishing a new method to communicate with biology
A Collaborative Approach in Tackling Dementia
Create a world that is flat
Finding Small Things with Tiny Holes
The Nanotoxicity of Bone
A flexible shuttle to fight intracellular infections
Computing on a diamond cluster
Making batteries ring
Frontier observations using superconductors
Shining Light on Neurodegeneration
A new way for brain cancer treatment
Playing with light
The future is bright for generating new light
Better night vision using the darkest material on Earth
Flipping spins to boost the efficiency of LEDs
Shaking things up
Watching what happens inside working batteries
Spare body parts for active (or not-so-active) people
Pipeline from the Sun
Photobatteries: Harvesting and storing solar energy at the same time!
Can bacteria save the world
Preventing human insulin sticking together
Tangled spaghetti-like molecules lead to new electronics
Studying membrane transport electrical ‘colour’
Using Supercapacitors to Capture Carbon Dioxide
Smart surfaces for heating and cooling buildings using only sunlight
Navigating hyper-dimentional voltage space
Materials building themselves in water
A lab in the palm of your hand
A new spin on electronics
Materials for motion
Jelly solar cells
Porous nanomaterials: Fuel storage of the future
Capturing light with an antenna based on DNA
A computer on a needle point
Mimicking living systems with DNA
Brain navigation: connecting the eyes to the brain
Bionic leaf to power your car
The (Di)electric light orchestra
Mechanical properties of DNA hydrogels
Nanomaterial engineering in ‘designer’ ionic solvents
Flexible Electronics
Radically different organic energy materials
Making superconductors more super
Solar cells through the Looking Glass of electrons
Targeting the cure for Tuberculosis: Solid-state nanopore sensing
Catching sunbeams
Nanorobots – not who you think they are
The next great detective story: using nanosensors for early cancer detection
Fuels from Air
Arrangements of metal atoms in nanoparticle catalysts
Warning, may contain nuts!
Shining a light on the fading mind
Nanotechnology right under our noses
Making quantum fly – with microwaves
Bringing Magnetism and Electricity Together
Cheaper Energy from the Sun
Is your sample running a fever?
Shrunk Electronics
Wasted Energy into Electricity
Laser texturing for ‘self-cleaning’
Opening a Window to Sunlight
Lighting up a greener future
Fishing for biomolecules
Biasing a nanoparticle
Low power memory devices
Solar Power on a Roll
Solar Panels from Bacteria
Compressing Hard Drives
Miniaturisation of barcoding
Building a nanoworld in a pale blue dot
Using Electronic Noise to Speed Up Machine Learning
Look for the light!
The power of soft connections: next-generation neural interfaces
Batteries to power a sustainable future
Controlling the uncontrollable
Shake it up every once in a while…
Investigating synthetic analogues of haem
What can escape from a glass tube sealed with a sheet of atoms?
Singlet Fission Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Green chemical synthesis using vitamins and light
Trapping light to open up our universe
Stacking a market stall with fruit with hands 10,000 times the size!
Construction on the nanoscale with DNA stars
Materials chemistry meets stretchable electronics
Lighter than Feathers but Stronger than Steel
Nano swiss rolls in batteries
Shaping nanoscale pores with DNA origami
Invisibly Bright Emitters to Make Solar Cells Great Again
Algae Need Vitamins Too
Quantum computers with industry-standard silicon technology
The Fanciest Colander You’ll Never See
Colour from Nothing
Squeezing electricity out of new materials
Lipids: The Missing Key to the Parkinson’s Puzzle?
Tiny Barrels Unlock the Materials of Tomorrow
Upgrading Biology: Building Better than Nature
Treating cancer using surfaces, light and gold
Sensors for Detecting Cancer Biomarkers
Using light to make chemistry more environmentally friendly
The studies of battery degradation under the microscope
Chloroplasts: a platform for vertical biopharming
Nano-Mechanical Quantum Computers
Counting photons from atoms and stars
Power for Space Missions
Understanding the next generation of batteries
Tiny Cages that deliver medicines
Zero dimensions – a quantum revolution is under way
Understanding our brain’s language
Sun and water, a perfect pair
What if you could see magnetism?
Warning signals for disease from a DNA lightbulb
Spying and tagging cancer to attack it first!
Controlling nature’s patterns
Making computers more brain-like
Shining light on green hydrogen
Bacteria: Enemy or Hero?
Photoswitches with ultra-fast response times
Karate on electrons to give a bigger zap from light
Shining new light on old rocks
Seeing dancing molecules on a surface
Capturing the Energy of Individual Electrons
The coolest infrared sensor in the Universe
Light at the end of the tunnel
Cages for the Future – A caravan for molecules is on its way
Seeing the forest for the trees
Making sense of a sea of atoms
Routes of Captured Light
Nano-structuring of battery electrode
Life from scratch
Between Light and Matter
Converting CO2 into Useful Chemicals
Trapping liquids in a sponge
Superconcentration of light and other tricks
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