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
