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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Crystal polymorphism: from chocolate to pharmaceuticals
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Electrons to characterise batteries
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Automated control of really small things
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Bacteria – mini fuel-forming factories!
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The Fine Dance Between Speed and Size: Untangling the Kinetics of Perovskite Quantum Dot Formation
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Unleashing the Power of Silicon Qubits through Machine Learning
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The Power of Defects: Turning Flaws into Quantum Advantage
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The Smallest Magnifying Glass
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The Nano-World War Z is On
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Ultralight batteries that breathe
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The Alzheimer Timer…
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Modelling Defects in WS2 Monolayers using ML Interatomic Potentials
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Unleashing the Power of Automation: Teaching Computers How to Build the Perfect Nanowire Device
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Revealing the Quantum Dance: Unveiling Topological Insulators with Pump-Probe Microscopy
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Blue Is the New White
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Putting the pedal to the metal: Using steel straight out of the 3D printer
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Using molecular ‘Lego’ blocks to treat pancreatic cancer
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Perovskites Through the Looking Glass
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Self-replication in synthetic cells built from DNA
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Will the artificial leaf make us god-like creatures?
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To Infinity and Beyond: Powering Space Exploration with Nanowire Solar Cells
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Does size matter if you can’t see it?
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Identifying the traps in next generation solar cells
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Nature’s own polymers: the solution to plastic pollution?
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Hacking Photosynthesis
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Magnetic nanostructures for the improved detection and treatment of kidney cancer
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Improving communication security, one photon at a time
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The XVI Arcanum from a Physicist’s Tarot
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Sodium, so watt? How sea salt could power your next car (or home)!
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RNA-DNA Hybrids: Diagnosis and Transcriptomics
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Solar batteries – Catching sunlight in a jar
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The ultimate smart device: the Brain
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Combining holograms to make devices
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Magnesium – the rising plasmonic
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Multispectral cameras for detecting early cancer
Observing biological systems in 3D
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Designing and Understanding Microbes in Energy-Conversion Systems
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Detection efficiency of mid-infrared light
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Folding DNA to trap light at the nanoscale
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Harnessing the power of sunlight
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Computing on a diamond cluster
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A Collaborative Approach in Tackling Dementia
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Bringing Magnetism and Electricity Together
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Spying and tagging cancer to attack it first!
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Documenting the lifespan of electrons, from birth till death
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Look for the light!
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Using Electronic Noise to Speed Up Machine Learning
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Cell Membrane-on-a-Chip for Drug Interaction Studies
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Converting CO2 into Useful Chemicals
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Create a world that is flat
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Using Supercapacitors to Capture Carbon Dioxide
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Chloroplasts: a platform for vertical biopharming
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Making computers more brain-like
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Sensors for Detecting Cancer Biomarkers
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Photobatteries: Harvesting and storing solar energy at the same time!
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A flexible shuttle to fight intracellular infections
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Playing with light
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Batteries to power a sustainable future
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Photoswitches with ultra-fast response times
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Low power memory devices
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Making quantum fly – with microwaves
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A new spin on electronics
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Catching sunbeams
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Capturing the Energy of Individual Electrons
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Trapping light to open up our universe
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What if you could see magnetism?
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A new way for brain cancer treatment
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Targeting the cure for Tuberculosis: Solid-state nanopore sensing
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Controlling the uncontrollable
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Navigating hyper-dimentional voltage space
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Watching what happens inside working batteries
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Smart surfaces for heating and cooling buildings using only sunlight
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Radically different organic energy materials
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Cages for the Future – A caravan for molecules is on its way
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Materials for motion
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Functional Nanoelectronics and Quantum Materials
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Nano-structuring of battery electrode
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The future is bright for generating new light
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