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