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